Sunday, February 1, 2009

Vanilla Bourbon Bread with Walnut Coffee Crumble




It's pretty hard to start this.. I don't know if there are really any words to say to state how much I've fallen for this simple quick bread. It's... ridiculously scrumptious and delicious. Moist and sweet, great with adding icing or a cup of coffee or tea... I got the idea while trying to find something to make in the small amount of ingredients that I had.

I didn't have any granulated sugar, so I decided to try using powdered sugar and brown sugar together (which turned out to be really good) and used a bunch of vanilla. I wanted something simple. I got the walnut coffee crumble idea from here off of a banana bread recipe. I thought that it'd be a perfect topping to a simple bread; and it indeed was.

This has become my new favorite quick bread recipe for this year, no doubt.






Recipe

For Crumble Topping

1/2 cup walnuts
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. cold butter
1 tsp. instant coffee
1/4 tsp. cinnamon

For the Bread

2 cups flour
3/4 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
3 large eggs
2 tbsp. bourbon
2 tbsp. vanilla extract
3/4 tsp. salt


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan; set aside.

2. In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the crumble; set aside.

3. In a large bowl combine flour, sugars, baking powder and salt. With electric mixer at low speed, beat until well blended. Add the cream, eggs, bourbon and vanilla. Beat at low speed until dry ingredients are evenly moistened and smooth.

4. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Top the batter off with the crumble. Bake in the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until bread tests done.





13 comments:

Snooky doodle said...

what a nice bread! ideal for breakfast. its interesting tht it uses no fat but cream. The topping is to die for. I m bookmarking this :)

LizNoVeggieGirl said...

No need for words - the beauty of that bread speaks for itself!! :-)

Donna-FFW said...

This is so perfect for a brunch with the girls. The picture is outstanding. Bet the taste was delectable!

Anonymous said...

Coffee, bourbon, and vanilla! A great trifecta of flavors.

Anonymous said...

Never thought to sub powdered sugar/brown sugar for granulated sugar.

Looks great!!

Ofiuco said...

Hi Tara,

I just made this recipe today after finding it on FoodGawker and I loved it. I made it because I'm having an adventure finding all the recipes I can cook using bourbon. Is it alright if I reproduce this recipe (slightly adapted) in a column in my college's newspaper, with credit given where due?

Thanks regardless for posting it!

Steph said...

The second recipe I've seen use heavy cream! I'm interested in this. How does it differ in texture from butter based quick bread made without cream? I actually have an entire carton of cream.. how perfect!

Sara said...

This sounds great, I have half a bottle of bourbon in my pantry and I've been looking for ways to use it!

veggie belly said...

wow, wow, wow!! I love the sound of that walnut coffee crumble. Gorgeous picture of the bread with your cat :)

Ngoc said...

Adding coffee into the crumble topping is pure genius. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

Anonymous said...

This looks like a great bread! The crumbly topping especially! I'm also a fan of including cats in my food pictures. Yours looks similar to one of mine :)

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