Peanut Butter Orange Bread
updated and adapted from Louise Arnold’s Peanut Orange Bread recipe appearing in Cooking Favorites: Recipes From Employees and Friends of Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site (undated)
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cup flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch salt
- ⅓ c. sugar
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup fresh orange juice I used a Cara Cara orange
- zest of one orange I used a Cara Cara orange
- ¼ cup coarsely chopped honey roasted peanuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Butter a standard 9 x 5 loaf pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together the dry ingredients.
- Use a mixer to mix in the peanut butter, then beat in the egg, vanilla, milk, juice and zest until it forms a thick, sticky batter.
- Fold in the peanuts and scrape into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean or with just one or two dry crumbs.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack then remove from the pan and cool completely on the rack.