Recipe: Orange Nut Bread With Orange Cream Cheese Spread for manyhats

Orange Nut Bread With Orange Cream Cheese Spread

Bread:
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup sweet butter (unsalted) softened
2 eggs
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, with pulp
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp orange extract

Orange Cream Cheese Spread:
3 pkgs of cream cheese softened (8 oz.)
1 navel orange, with peel, cut into chunks
3 to 4 tbsp. confectioner's sugar

Bread: Sift flour with salt, baking powder and soda. Cream sugar with butter, beat in eggs, one at a time.

Add orange juice to the sugar mixture, alternately, with the flour mixture.

Add extracts and nuts and stir well.

Pour into 3 well greased small loaf pans (3 1/2 x 6).

Bake at 350F for about 40 minutes.

Remove from pans, cool and wrap.

Chill well before slicing.

Serve with Orange Cream Cheese Spread:
Using food processor with steel blade, combine orange chunks, cream cheese and sugar. Refrigerate a few hours to blend flavors.