Cream Cheese Apricot Bread
1 hour 25 minutes
Layered with a sweet creamy orange filling, this apricot and nut bread is unlike any you have tried before. No butter needed to serve this bread, it's so moist.
Linda
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 loaf
- Bread Layer
- 1 cup (150g) dried apricots
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 2 cups (250g) flour
- 1 cup (220g) sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 60g butter
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1 cup (130g) chopped nuts
- Creamy Layer
- 250g cream cheese
- 1/3 cup (70g) sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 egg
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Extra time:15min soaking ›
Ready in:1hour25min
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees C. Grease a loaf tin. Soak dried apricots in a bowl of hot water for 15 minutes, then drain.
- Mix 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and bicarb soda. Slowly mix in butter, 1 egg, orange juice, chopped nuts and apricots. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix together cream cheese, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 egg and orange peel.
- Pour 1/2 the bread batter into greased loaf tin then pour in the cream cheese mixture, then layer with the remaining bread mixture. Bake in preheated oven for about 50 minutes.
