Black Forest Bread
By: Anonymous
Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 - 1:07pm

Ingredients




1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dried cranberries *see Note
1 tablespoon hot water
2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
3/4 cup buttermilk low-fat
2/3 cup sugar
 cup honey
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 lrg egg
vegetable cooking spray

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2 Combine first four ingredients in a large bowl. Stir in cranberries, and make a well in center of mixture. Combine water and coffee granules; add buttermilk and next 5 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. 3 Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. 4 Cool completely on wire rack. 5 NOTES :* I used the same amount of dried cherries, which is more Black Forest-ish... 6 Delurking for a day. Made this bread (more like cake!) today and couldn't wait for it to cool before we cut into it. Yummy!