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Recipe for Cranberry Orange Loaf with Chocolate Chips

A delicious tea cake where cranberries and chocolate chips come together with a strong citrussy flavour.
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Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 6 serving
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1.5 tsps baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup orange juice freshly squeezed
  • one orange zest of
  • 4 - 5 drops orange oil (optional)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup cranberries sugar fresh or frozen , roughly chopped and tossed in
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Method
 

  1. Grease a loaf tin and keep aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 175 C.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk the dry ingredients until combined.
  4. In a medium bowl, beat the egg with the oil. Add the orange juice, zest and orange extract and whisk well together.
  5. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Stir gently to combine, finally stirring in sugar coated cranberries and chocolate chips.
  6. Scrape out the batter into the prepared loaf tin and bake at 175 C (350F) in the middle rack, for 50 minutes to an hour, until a skewer comes out clean.
  7. Remove from oven,allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes. Carefully, loosen the sides and turn it out on a cooling rack. Let it cool.
  8. Slice and serve with a cup of tea.