Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread

A delicious sweet and moist bread made with fresh strawberries and cream cheese. This strawberry cream cheese bread makes for a tasty breakfast or after school snack

I am loving that it is strawberry season! One of my favourite simple desserts in the summer is French Vanilla ice cream topped with fresh strawberries. Strawberries and cream is a perfect combination in my opinion. A few years ago I made this Fresh Strawberry bread from My Baking Addiction. I remembered it being sweet, slightly tangy and delicious. So when I bought fresh strawberries at the grocery store this week, I knew I wanted to make a strawberry bread with them. I adapted Jamie's recipe to make this delicious strawberry cream cheese bread. It is full of that strawberry and cream flavour that I love. The cream cheese and sour cream make this bread incredibly moist. The bread comes together quickly and bakes up to a beautiful golden brown loaf. 

This bread is deadly! If I let myself, I could eat an entire loaf in one sitting. In the fall and winter, I regularly make banana bread but I think this strawberry bread is quickly going to be added to the rotation for spring and summer.  

Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread

Makes: Two 8 inch loaves

Adapted from: My Baking Addiction 

Ingredients

1/2 c butter, at room temperature

4 oz cream cheese, softened

1 c sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 c flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 c sour cream

2 c strawberries, washed & chopped

Directions

Pre-heat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 8inch loaf pans. Set aside.

In a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, over medium to high speed beat together butter, cream cheese and sugar, for 2-3 minutes or until light and fluffy. The mixture should be almost white in colour

Add eggs into butter mixture one a time. Mix until just combined. Add in vanilla

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Over low speed, slowly add flour mixture to wet ingredients in stand mixer. Mix until just combined. Once combined, mix in sour cream

Using a rubber spatula fold strawberries into bread batter. The batter will be thick and pale in colour

Evenly divide batter between prepared pans. Use your rubber spatula to spread batter evenly in pans. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean

Allow bread to cool in pan for 10-15 minutes before cooling completely on a wire rack. Slice bread and enjoy!