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Healthy Cherry Sweet Bread

By: Sandy Barnes (Eastport, Michigan)

This healthy cherry sweet bread took a distinguished Second Place from our celebrity judges in the 2011 Friske's 8th Annual Cherry Recipe Contest!   Grab some of Friske's Dried Cherries (Available Online) and fire up the hearth for baking!
 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 C Friske dried cherries
1 C whole wheat flour
1 C all-purpose flour
1 C sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 C butter, melted
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 C applesauce w/ cinnamon
1/3 C plain or vanilla yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x5 inch bread pan with nonstick cooking spray. 

Place cherries in a medium size bowl & cover with boiling water. Let soak for 10 to 15 minutes, then drain all liquid from cherries.
 
In a  large bowl, combine flours, sugar, baking soda & salt. In another large bowl combine butter, eggs, applesauce, yogurt & vanilla, whisking until smooth. Add cherries to the dry mixture & mix. Add liquid mixture to dry mixture & stir until all ingredients are blended - do not over mix. Pour into prepared bread pan. Bake approx 1 hours and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. 
 
Remove bread from pan onto a cooling rack & let cool completely before cutting. 
 

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