Orange Mango Nut Bread with Ginger Honey Butter

Orange Mango Nut Bread with Ginger Honey Butter

Absolutely delicious! Experience a medley of naturally sweet flavors beginning with the clean, refreshing appeal of citrus followed by tropical bursts of mango. The chopped pecans add texture and a delicate crunch, yet it's the layer of ginger honey butter that makes this bread habit forming.
Orange Mango Nut Bread with Ginger Honey Butter

Ingredients

Bread

  1. ½ cup (1 stick) Challenge Unsalted Butter, softened
  2. ¾ cup granulated sugar
  3. 2 teaspoons fresh orange zest*
  4. 2 eggs
  5. 2 cups all-purpose flour
  6. ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  7. ½ teaspoon baking soda
  8. ½ teaspoon salt
  9. ¾ cup plain yogurt (6 oz)
  10. ⅓ cup orange juice
  11. ½ cup chopped pecans
  12. ½ cup chopped sweetened dried mangos

Ginger Honey Butter

  1. ½ cup (1 stick) Challenge Unsalted Butter, softened
  2. 1 teaspoon orange zest
  3. ¼ teaspoon salt (optional)
  4. 3 Tablespoons honey
  5. 1 Tablespoon finely chopped fresh ginger root

Directions

Bread

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 350ºF. Butter a 9x5-inch loaf pan (or line pan with parchment).

  2. Step 2

    Cream butter, sugar and orange zest until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

  3. Step 3

    Add dry blend to butter mixture alternating with yogurt and orange juice; mix until well blended. Stir in nuts and mango pieces.

  4. Step 4

    Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes; remove from pans. Cool completely. Slice and serve with Ginger Orange Butter.

Ginger Honey Butter

  1. Step 1

    Cream butter with orange zest and salt until light and fluffy. Blend in honey, and ginger root. Refrigerate.

Note: *Zest one fresh orange reserving 1 teaspoon zest for preparation of Ginger Honey Butter. Then juice the orange to obtain ½ cup of orange juice for use in the bread recipe.

Source: Challenge Home Economist

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Joice Hill

Oct 5, 2011

Rating: 
5

This is so good! I used chopped fresh ripe mangos and walnut. Still, it came out so soft and yummy! Thanks so much!