Orange Cardamom Bread is a quick bread that has the wonderful flavor of orange with a touch of the warm cardamom spice. This bread is super easy to make and will keep for several days.
This bread is the perfect bread to make at any time of the year, but I like to make it around the time of the holidays. I love baking with citrus when the weather is cold outside, to me, it brings a little sunshine to the cold weather.
Some of the reasons that I love this bread as much as I do are the flavor of the orange and the cardamom. They just go so well together. The bread is super easy to make and it stores well.
Helpful Tips:
- Use ingredients that are room temperature.
- Make sure to preheat the oven before baking the bread.
- To remove the bread easily from the loaf pan, I like to grease and flour the pan and then line it with parchment paper. I have made the bread without the parchment paper before. I use a large spatula to loosen the bottom of the bread before removing it.
- For greasing the pan make sure to use shortening and not butter. Shortening is all fat where butter has some water in it.
- Check the bread for doneness about 5 minutes before the mininum time, if the bread looks like it is about done. Check with a wooden pick, if it comes out clean the bread is done. All ovens bake differently, so baking time may vary.
- The orange juice and the sugar should be mixed together while the bread bakes. This will give the sugar time to disolve. Make sure to stir it once in a while before pouring it over the baked bread.
- This bread freezes really well.
Steps for making Orange Cardamom Bread
Step one
Preheat the oven and prepare a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan.
Step two
Mix together the butter and 1 cup of sugar until well blended. Add the eggs and mix in.
Step three
Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture. Mix in. Add the orange zest and milk and blend in.
Step four
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes
Step five
While the bread is baking mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and orange juice from one orange.
Step six
When the bread is baked pour the orange juice mixture over top of the bread. Once it is soaked in remove the bread from the pan and cool completely.
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Orange Cardamom Bread
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 1/3 cup sugar divided
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/2 cup milk
- Zest from 1 orange
- Juice from 1 orange
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- With an electric mixer mix the butter and 1 cup of the sugar together until well blended. Add the eggs and mix in.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cardamom add to butter mixture and mix in. Add the milk and the orange zest and mix in.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the middle of the bread comes out clean.
- While the bread is baking mix the orange juice from the orange with the remaining 1/3 cup of sugar and mix well. Set aside. When the bread comes out of the oven pour the mixture over the top of the hot bread.
- After the orange juice mixture is poured over the bread let the bread cool for an hour in the pan and the then remove and cool completely.
Notes
- Grease and flour then line with parchment paper for easy removal. I have baked this without parchment paper. Use a large spatula to loosen the bottom of the bread.
- Check for doneness with a wooden pick. If it comes out clean, the bread is done. Check in the center of the loaf.
- Mix the orange juice and sugar while the bread is baking. Make sure to stir a few times to help dissolve the sugar.
- The bread freezes well. Freeze in an airtight container.
Nutrition
This recipe was originally published on December 14, 2017. It has been updated with new content and pictures on December 14, 2021.
Your house must have smelled wonderful while baking this gorgeous loaf! Cardamom and orange are a super team.
Yum!!! I just finished up a cranberry orange quick bread and your orange cardamom loaf looks just as wonderful!!
I absolutely love baking bread for Christmas morning! We typically go with banana bread, but I’m totally down to mix it up this year. This orange cardamom bread sounds fantastic, and I love that glaze on top! Well done, Dawn!! 🙂
Oh my gosh does that sound good. I don’t think I’ve had orange and cardamom before.
Yum! This looks superb! Love orange and cardamom combined. Don’t think I’ve ever had it in bread, though. Neat idea — thanks. And Happy New Year!
Looks good 🙂 I will try it once. Thanks for the nice recipe.
Thank you!
Wonderful – really good, despite my screw-up. Instead of setting the squeezed orange juice aside, I added it into the dough mix, which made it too wet. My wife stepped in, added time to the oven and made a substitute glaze with lemon juice. So good.
Hi Duane, I am happy that you liked the bread. Some time mishaps happen, I am glad that it worked out. Thank you for stopping by my blog!
fabolous bread: I went to Denmark and fell in love with the pastries there, because of the Cardamon. Thanks for the reciepe.
Hi Tracy, I found cardamon a few years ago and I fell in love with it too.