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Orange Cranberry Bread sliced on a cutting board

Orange Cranberry Bread

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This easy, lightened up Orange Cranberry Bread is a great winter baking treat for breakfast or a snack!
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword Christmas Breakfast, Easy Baking Recipe, Holiday Breakfast, Lightened Up, Weight Watchers, WW Baking
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 12 slices
Author Sunny Cooking

Ingredients

  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • 1 ½ teaspoon orange zest (about the amount from one orange)
  • 4 tablespoons light butter melted (I use Land O’Lakes light butter spread with canola oil in the tub)
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ¼ cup halved fresh cranberries divided

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Mist a 9” x 5” loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, add the egg, applesauce, sugar, orange juice and orange zest and stir together until well combined. Add the melted butter and stir together.
  • In a separate mixing bowl, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and whisk until combined. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir together until just combined into a batter. Stir a cup of the halved cranberries into the batter until combined.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and top with the remaining ¼ cup of cranberries. Bake for 45-55 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  • Transfer the bread in the loaf pan to a wire cooling rack and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, invert the pan to release the bread onto the cooling rack and then flip it over so that it’s right side up. Allow the bread to rest directly on the rack until cool. Once the bread is cool, slice the loaf into 12 (3/4” thick) slices.

Notes

To view your current WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app, click here!
WW Points per slice: 4* (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
*or 5 Points per slice if following the diabetic WW plan
Nutrition Information per (1 slice) serving:
117 calories, 22 g carbs, 8 g sugars, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 2 g protein, 1 g fiber, 183 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Points Plus:
3 per (1 slice) serving (P+ calculated using a PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information)