Buttermilk Chocolate Bread

Name: Buttermilk Chocolate Bread
Total time: P1H
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: butter; sugar; eggs; buttermilk; vanilla extract; chocolate chips (semi-sweet); flour; baking powder; baking soda; salt; pecans; maraschino cherries; cream; maraschino cherries; powdered sugar

Submitted by chickenkit

YIELD

1 loaf

PREP

15 min

COOK

50 min

READY

1 hrs

Ingredients

CUP BUTTER
softened

CUP SUGAR

LARGE EGGS

CUP BUTTERMILK

TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT

CUP CHOCOLATE CHIPS (SEMI-SWEET)
melted *

2 ¼

CUPS ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR

TEASPOON BAKING POWDER

TEASPOON BAKING SODA

PINCH SALT *

CUP PECANS
chopped

CUP MARASCHINO CHERRIES
chopped *

Glaze

1 ½

TABLESPOONS CREAM

TABLESPOONS MARASCHINO CHERRIES
chopped *

CUP POWDERED SUGAR
sifted

Directions

Beat together first 5 ingredients until blended.

Beat in melted chocolate.

Combine and add next 4 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.

Do not overmix. Stir in pecans and cherries. Divide batter between 3 greased and lightly floured mini-loaf foil pans, place pans on a cookie sheet, and bake in a 325℉ (160℃). oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pans and continue cooling on a rack.

When cool, drizzle tops with Creamy Cherry Glaze.