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Recipe ReDux #25 Blood Orange Quick Bread

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A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn’t be easier! Blood orange, with its “raspberry-like” citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread!

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

November’s Theme – Creative Quick Breads: The holiday baking season is upon us. And this month we’re going way beyond grandma’s banana bread. From sweet to savory and whole-grain to gluten-free, show us your new quick bread creation fresh from the oven. And if you have a tip for wrapping and giving your lovely loaf, please share that too! (Recipe ReDux)

I hope you like to bake, or at least, my recipes are making you want to at least try to like it! I’ve always said on this blog, from the very beginning, that I was not a baker, but a cook. I scoffed at baking and the lack of creativity and freewill it allowed. But that is just silly and I apologize to mocking the art of baking. Baking is much more a black and white science, but it is one that I am growing to love o so much. You might have realized this after the influx of baked goods showing up here on Strength and Sunshine, and I hope you’re prepared for a lot more! This is the season of baking and I feel it’s my duty to uphold that (even though I want to post recipes of than baked goods).

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

As it comes to be, you may imagine, being a gluten-free vegan baker takes a bit more gusto and determination than just a typical baker. But again, I feel it’s my duty and the mission of this blog to bring the best and tastiest recipes to the table and show you that gluten-free, vegan, allergen-friendly cooking and baking is not an impossible task to undertake. It’s rather fun, enlightening, and really great for stimulating the mind (and waking up those taste buds!). Even if you think you are by no means a “baker”, I want you to think again. It really isn’t all that hard. If you don’t feel confident enough (yet) to wing it on your own, following a tested recipe is a fine way to build that confidence and show you that baking isn’t so scary.

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

Baking has become my solus therapeutic activity as of late. If I’m feeling antsy, drained, and just plain blah, I usually have a list of recipes to test out that I look to and then get in the kitchen to do just that. Over the last few months, many of those recipe ideas have been of the baking variety. I’ve come to the kitchen with those blah feelings to conquer tasks I’ve always wanted to. From bagels to sourdough, focaccia to gnocchi (okay, that’s not baking), the confidence that these creations have given me, not only with my craft of cooking and baking, but with myself, is something I’m truly thankful for. It may sounds silly, but for this Thanksgiving, I think I would say this craft of baking is what I’m thankful for most in my life right now.

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

Realizing that baking could be just as creative and whimsical as cooking, is something I hold tight and treasure. Not only has it brought confidence and care-free therapy, but it has been wonderful to be able to share. The thoughts, emotions, passions, love, and creativity that I pour in are expressed through the recipe and then able to be shared and passed over to others besides just myself. I’m not very good at talking about my feelings or what’s on my mind. From my worries, anxieties, triumphs, even happiness, I’m not very good at explaining through spoken word. Sometimes writing is a way to get it all about, but lately that has been hard. That’s why pouring it all into my craft has been the only way for me to let things out.

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

And those things that get released are always beautiful. Just like the beauty of release in yoga, that is expressed through the movement of the body, the beauty in baking and cooking is expressed through the final product that’s produced. But if you want to take it further, you can see that the components, the ingredients, that go in to the recipe are simply a reflection of the feelings. You may choose dark and stormy ingredients and flavors or you may use something light and airy. The final product is the full expression and culmination of all those thoughts and feelings inside of you. No matter what comes out, however, it is beautiful and unique. It is a part of you, my dear friend, it is everything you can’t necessarily express in words, but rather show with your hands.

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

For me, on the day that this bread was baked, I was feeling bright and happy. It was a sunny lovely Sunday afternoon, and the urge to bake something whimsical struck hard. I had no one to share my feel good feelings with, so I poured them all into baking a blood orange quick bread. Blood sounds a bit morbid, but when you stop and look at the beauty of a blood orange, you see that is not the case. The rind can range from orange to maroon and red molted. When sliced, the beautiful deep red/maroon color captivates the eye. The color only comes from the low temperatures it encounters at night (the ideal winter fruit). Yes the taste is not the same as a typical orange. Its much more sweet, yet raspberry like, making it perfect for baking.

Blood Orange Quick Bread

Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

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Blood Orange Quick Bread

A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn’t be easier! Blood orange, with its “raspberry-like” citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 40 mins
  • Total Time: 50 mins
  • Yield: One 8x4 Loaf 1x
  • Category: Bread, Baking, Breakfast, Dessert
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the sorghum, quinoa flakes, out flour, and baking powder. Whisk together.
  3. Add the applesauce and blood orange juice next. For the orange, simply cut in half, squeeze in the juice and then take your fingers and scrap out the membranes into the bowl.
  4. Add in the rest of the ingredients and whisk everything completely together to form the bread batter.
  5. In a well greased (with coconut oil) 8×4 bread pan, pour in the batter and smooth it out evenly. Add two large blood orange slices to the top of the batter.
  6. Bake the bread for about 40 minutes. Remove and let cool completely.
  7. Serve warm, cold, or slice and freeze (easy to reheat in the microwave!)

 Blood Orange Quick Bread | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread! Perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a sweet snack!

A simple afternoon bread baking can be all the soul needs to feel alive again. It can help you work out and express feelings and wound up emotions, maybe you didn’t even know you had. It can be an expression of awareness of the feelings you are having. No matter, it will always be a fantastic gift to yourself and those whom you share it with. Baking and cooking may seem like a craft of solitude, but it extends beyond that once you share the creation that comes out of it. For me, it is one way I know I can express myself and for that, I am thankful.

Want more quick breads? Apple Pie Quick Bread – Grain-Free Butternut Squash Bread – Buckwheat Pumpkin Cornbread

So tell me:

+ How are you comfortable expressing emotions?

+ Who here is a fan of blood oranges? Me!

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Comments

  17. Mum in Brum says

    This looks so delicious! I prefer cooking myself, but I’m planning to get into baking soon too so I will have to give this one a go. Glad you’re enjoying your baking journey!

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  26. Elena says

    This looks lovely! I’ve been branching into gf baking, and it’s a challenge! I love the addition of the blood oranges, so nice this time of year.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Bianca, you would have no problems with gf baking! You create magic 😉
      Well yea, people can tell by my face and sensitivity, but I don’t “like” to express or talk things out much 😛

      Reply

    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you!
      Just another great “no sugar” no chemical calorie free sugar sub I like instead of stevia!

      Reply

    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Haha, yes 😉 I think I’m starting to like it “too much” too! I and I don’t have many people to share it with!

      Reply

  39. Kristy @ Southern In Law says

    This looks delish! Blood oranges are such an impressive look (and tasting!) fruit!

    When it comes to expressing emotions, I’m fine with my family and close friends – but to everyone else I’m never anything but the happy smiley rainbows and glitter Kristy (hence why I’m called “the unicorn of the family” – because my family know that’s how I act around others) because I don’t want to bring anyone else down! But when I get home? Jesse gets the ugly cries hahahaha

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      They are!
      Hahaha, well at least you do get everything out! And family is the right people to do it with, they always can handle it!

      Reply

  41. Laura says

    Oh my golly, I am such a fan of blood orange. The colour and the flavour are both so magnificent. I have never tried it in a bread before, but this looks sooooo tasty:)

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  42. Nadia's Healthy Kitchen says

    Blood oranges really are beautiful 🙂 I’ve never baked with them before though, in fact I think I’ve only tried it once or twice. Will see if I can find any in my local supermarket so I can try making this yummy looking loaf 😀

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  43. Susie @ SuzLyfe says

    I only make quick breads! I don’t have enough room in my apartment to make real bread! When I was a kid, we did have a bread maker, and that was about as craaaazy as we got. Love the blood orange. One of the best things that I’ve ever had in my entire life was a blood orange donut. Still one of the most amazing tastes ever.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I have a bread maker, but I never use it 😛
      When I post my sourdough recipe….I want you to try it 😉
      Well now I need to make blood orange doughnuts!!!

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  44. Alina says

    First of all, these photos are amazing! And secondly, the recipe sounds SO DELICIOUS. I will definitely bookmark it and hopefully try it out soon. Thanks so much for sharing! x

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  49. Sam @ PancakeWarriors says

    I simply adore blood oranges I haven’t seen them in the store yet this year though. I’m so exited to know they might be out soon. I’m in the same boat with baking lately. It’s such a comforting place to be mentally. Hope you continue to find joy in baking. Now is the best time of year!

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  50. Natalie | Feasting on Fruit says

    I love the blood oranges on top! I don’t actually like the taste of blood oranges for eating, but to bake into bread they are just stunning! I made an upside down cake with them once and it was so pretty…but so hard to cut haha! It makes me happy that baking is making you so happy now 🙂 And it also makes me very happy that this recipe has so much oat flour in it. No offense buckwheat, but oat flour is my favorite <3

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Why? They taste like oranges, just a tad sweeter???
      And how are they hard to cut? You’re baffling me today!
      Buckwheat is the quintessential true gluten-free flour 😉

      Reply

    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      It’s just innate! Baking leads to happiness! And yea, so does orange…or yellow, and bright color!

      Reply

  56. Marleen Vanbuel says

    What does the psyllium husk ? Could I just skip it ? Or what could I use to replace it with ? Thanks for your delicious recipe 🙂

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I wasn’t sure how the orange would be in the bread actually, but it was amazing! And thank you! Haha, I needed some way to make it “stand out” and show off those pretty blood orange colors!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      My grocery was loaded with them 2 weeks ago then they vanished…. Hoping they will be back this week!

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  66. Farrah says

    Yay for blood oranges! <3 <3! That quick bread looks so darn good!!!

    People think I have really "demonstrative facial expressions"–does that count? :O (I have no poker face to speak of.)

    Reply

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