Rhubarb-Orange Snack Bread for School {Naptime Everyday}
What’s Going on Today: Back to school! Woo-hoo!
School Day Project: Rhubarb-Orange Snack Bread, prepare Back-to-School Eggplant Parmesan for dinner.
Tonight’s Menu: Eggplant Parmesan, Green Salad, celebration cupcake!
I don’t mean to imply I am not going to miss my daughter when she is at school, but I am glad school is starting today. It is time. Time for her to get back in a daily routine, me to get settled back into everyday life and my husband to have us home again instead of running off on week-long excursions. One of the things our fall routine requires is a continuous parade of school snacks. Like most schools, my daughter is not allowed to bring peanut butter, but she can bring pretty much anything else that is healthy and easy to eat in her allotted snack time.
Not surprisingly, one of her favorite snacks is my mom’s homemade banana bread which we make all the time. (I have yet to meet a child who doesn’t like a slice of moist banana bread!) We also recently stumbled upon a new favorite recipe, this rhubarb-orange snack bread. It came in a bundle of rhubarb recipes my friend Barbara shared with me and the moment I saw it I knew it would be the perfect addition to our homemade snack parade!
I made our first loaf a couple of weeks ago and all three of us went wild. We practically polished off the whole thing in a day. When I made it this time I pulled together the batter and let it bake after she went to bed. She had a warm slice with her breakfast and took two more to school with her for snacktime. Now, the biggest challenge for me will be portioning out our frozen rhubarb so I can make this bread all winter!
Recipe
Orange-Rhubarb Snack Bread
loosely adapted from The Joy of Rhubarb
Ingredients
| ½ | cup granulated sugar |
| ½ | cup unsalted butter, room temperature |
| 2 | eggs |
| 2 | cups all-purpose flour |
| 1 | teaspoon baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon baking soda |
| 1 | teaspoon kosher salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon ground nutmeg |
| ½ | cup orange juice |
| ½ | teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 1 | tablespoon freshly grated orange zest |
| 1 | cup rhubarb, chopped into ½ inch pieces |
| 1 | tablespoon raw sugar |
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350F.Butter a 9×5 loaf pan and set aside. Stir together the orange juice, vanilla and orange zest and set aside.
2. In one bowl beat the sugar and butter until smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until just curdled.
3. In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, soda, salt and nutmeg. Stir this into the egg mixture, alternating with the orange juice mixture until the batter is smooth. Stir the rhubarb in carefully with a wooden spoon. Spread the batter into the prepared loaf pan and sprinkle the top with the raw sugar.
4. Bake for the bread for about 50 minutes or until a cake tester inserted comes out clean.
Naptime Notes
Naptime Recipe Serving ideas
This is an excellent snack bread for lunch boxes or tea time. It is also a fun dessert or breakfast!
Naptime Stopwatch
20 minutes prep time, 50 minutes bake time
Naptime Reviews
This was a huge hit with the whole family, even my husband who is not the biggest rhubarb fan!
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Love the rhubarb orange combo 🙂
Thanks, Marla!
Thanks, Marla!
This bread sounds really good. Love the combination of rhubarb and orange, I can just imagine a slice with a nice cup of tea.
Yes, Lynn, this is great with tea!
Yes, Lynn, this is great with tea!
Love that you found rhubarb. I haven’t been able to find it lately, but it looks like a delicious recipe for it!
Georgia – I am ADDICTED to rhubarb because we have so much in Cooperstown. I’ll send you some! 🙂
Georgia – I am ADDICTED to rhubarb because we have so much in Cooperstown. I’ll send you some! 🙂
Love that you found rhubarb. I haven’t been able to find it lately, but it looks like a delicious recipe for it!
Would frozen rhubarb work? if should i thaw it first? thanks
Hi Mary, Yes, frozen rhubarb works! Allow it to come to room temperature and dab it dry so that the moisture from the freezing is out. It will work beautifully in this bread!
This was delicious! I only had 1/2 cup of frozen rhubarb so, since strawberries and rhubarb are a natural combination, I substituted 1/2 cup of strawberries. Thanks, Kelsey.
Jill, adding the strawberries a FABULOUS idea! I am totally going to try that! Thanks for your nice comment. 🙂
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I just made this fantastic bread! Thanks for the recipe. I made two substitutions because of what I had in the house. I used coconut oil instead of butter, and I used whole wheat pastry flour. I did add 3 Tbls more orange juice so it wouldn’t be dry with the whole wheat pastry flour. Love it!
Hi! I am SO glad to hear this. And what interesting substitutions, I love how you worked it all out. Thanks for sharing!