Black Forest Bread

Photo: flickr user Dan4th

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup dried cranberries *see Note

1 tablespoon hot water

2 teaspoons instant coffee granules

3/4 cup buttermilk low-fat

2/3 cup sugar

cup honey

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 lrg egg

vegetable cooking spray

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine first four ingredients in a large bowl. Stir in cranberries, and make a well in center of mixture. Combine water and coffee granules; add buttermilk and next 5 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan.

Cool completely on wire rack.

NOTES :* I used the same amount of dried cherries, which is more Black Forest-ish...

Delurking for a day. Made this bread (more like cake!) today and couldn't wait for it to cool before we cut into it. Yummy!