Eggless Almond Butter Bread
In a recent episode of Paula Deen’s show in Food TV, I saw her preparing a very easy peanut butter bread. Since I’m not a big fan of peanut butter I thought of making the bread with almond butter instead. The taste was amazing and you won’t believe how easy it is to prepare.
Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 2 cups
Baking powder - 4 teaspoons
Salt - 1 teaspoon
Sugar - 1/3 cup
Toasted slivered almonds - 1/4 cup (optional)
Milk - 1.5 cups (I used 2% milk)
Almond Butter - 1/2 cup (I used Nature’s Promise Organic Almond Butter)
Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Combine the dry ingredients and nuts. Add milk to the mix and stir well to avoid lumps.
3. Now add the almond butter.
4. Mix well and continuously stir them.
5. Pour into a 8×4x3 inch loaf pan.
6. Top the batter with some toasted almond slices.
7. Bake for approximately 50 minutes.
8. Have this for breadfast with or without jam. Enjoy!
My Notes:
1. I happened to check the reviews in the food network site after baking the bread while writing this post. The recipe was given only 3 stars and most of them had written that the bread was too dry and did not have enough peanut butter taste. So they had suggested reducing the amount of baking powder, increasing the quantity of peanut butter, reducing the baking time, or using organic peanut butter because it has more oil content. But I did not have any problem with my bread. The only change I made was using almond butter and added a couple of toasted almonds. The bread was very moist and sweet enough by itself. Jam was also not necessary. The almond butter did have a lot of oil in it, maybe that gave the moistness to the bread.
2. Adding toasted nuts in the batter gave a very nice crunch. But I wouldn’t top the bread with nuts the next time because they get toasted once again and some of the nuts became little bitter. Not topping the bread with almonds will also facilitate easy slicing of the bread.
3. Cool completely before slicing the bread, so that it does not crumble. I would even recommend to 2 to 3 hours of cooling.
4. Also check out the health benefits of almonds here.
Update: My friend Roma from Bangalore, India has tried another cool version of the Almond Bread. Since almond butter is not available in India she has used regular unsalted butter and has included powdered almonds and has got a very moist bread.
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Tags: all purpose flour, almond butter, almond butter bread, baking powder, bread, milk, peanut butter, peanut butter bread, salt, sugar, toasted almonds
May 20th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Congratulations
You deserve all these and more….wow, what a recipe….. your blog is the one I always dreamed of….eggless stuff…..and oodles of recipes…. great job…
And I want a slice now ………….Almond bread, Yum
May 20th, 2008 at 6:16 am
And forgot to mention…these step by step pictures are so amazing…. you are so comitted to food blogging madhu, very inspiring
May 20th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi Madhu
The butter looks so moist.I tried ur chocochip and cinnamon monkey bread.It is really good.But i feel the smell of baking powder in it.Is it 1 tblsp?Give ur comments.COngrats on ur awards
May 20th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Congratulations on ur well deserve award Madhu. Bread looks moist and love the pics!!!thanxxx for sharing…
May 20th, 2008 at 7:32 am
It is raining awards at Eggless cooking
Does almond butter taste as sweet as peanut butter ?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am
congrats on ur awards madhuram!!!the bread is reallly delicious!!!tempting photos too…well presented..
May 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Congratulations!!
I bet this bread with be so tasty.I am gonna make it and surprise my husband.Thanks for the sweet recipe. 
May 20th, 2008 at 8:27 am
thats one perfectly baked bread Madhu
and Thanks for the award.. the logo is soo cute.. 
Siri
May 20th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Thank you!
Thanks again for the numerous eggless recipes.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Madhu that bread (i can call it almond cake…) looks awesome….. yumm…. I will surely try it….:) where can i get organic almond butter? Can u suggest some place?
Loved the recipe…It is so simply….
Congrats on ur lovely awards…. U deserve every inch of it…:) and thank u so much for thinking of me and passing it on to me…..Muah!…:)
May 20th, 2008 at 9:11 am
The bread looks beautiful Madhu! nice rise for an eggless version:) COngrats on the award, and thank you so much for passing it on to me!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:12 am
congrats on ur award and ur bread is yummy!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:21 am
The bread looks gorgeous Madhu :-)…congrats on the awards
May 20th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Congrats for the awards….One more delicious recipe from you,Eggless Almond butter cake looks delicious..
May 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Very good post.
I just recently discovered the world of fruit butters ( made spiced Pear butter recently) and have started using them in baking too.
I will be trying this recipe of your soon. Loved it.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi Madhuram…..
That was a nice recipe. U have made such a decadent cake without egg, great job. Congrats on ur award…..
May 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Ur bread looks soft and spongy Madhu.. Congrats on ur awards wish more…
May 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Lovely bread, Madhu! Love the beatiful instructions too. congrats on the well deserved awards.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Looks lovely..nice to see eggless recipes!
May 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
very nice looking bread! we don’t get almond butter in india, but maybe i could use the peanut butter instead - though I want it to be moist!
hmm… sorry for just thinking aloud!
May 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Congratulations Madhu on your awards.. Lovely bread with nice pictorial instructions
May 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
that is a beautiful loaf, `almonds in cake r my fav
thanks for leaving a trail on my blog, happy to hv followed it here!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Congrats on the good chat blog award madhu..like the name of the award..the loaf looks too too good..I too watch paula deens show everyday..love her baking..I love the almonds on top of the loaf too
May 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
lovely bread..perfect..
May 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Rupa, thank you very much for your continuous support and encouragement. It’s my husband’s idea to include step by step pictures.
Kamala thank you. I checked with the recipe and it says 1 tablespoon only. But I really don’t remember whether it had the baking powder smell. The only thing I recollect is the tops were a bit dry. Sorry about it.
Madhavi it’s my pleasure. I baked it on Monday night and it’s moist even now. But you have to store it properly.
SS, thank you. Yes it’s sweet only. I bought the unsalted variety. I liked it better than the PB. This is my first time with almond better too. Glad it came out very well. But it’s very costly also when compared to PB, this jar cost me $12.
Ranji thank you very much.
Shri welcome to my blog. Do give it a try, it’s very moist. But I would advice not topping it with the almonds and cutting it after giving enough time to cool.
Siri, Kumudha, thank you very much. Congrats on the award.
Shubha thank you so much for the words of appreciation. I got the almond butter in the regular american grocery store (Giant, in my case) in the natural foods aisle. Get the unsalted one. It is full of oil, so give it a nice stir with a thick spoon after opening the jar and be careful while opening because the oil will spill.
Mansi thank you and congrats to you too.
Sangeeth thank you very much.
Sunita, I started this blog seeing your blog. So I really am very happy to see your comments here.
Hetal thanks.
Anjali, pear butter sounds INTERESTING! Will check out your blog for that.
Cham, Sukanya, Uma, Srivalli thank you very much guys. It tasted very very good too.
Arundathi, that’s fine. I did not want to mislead, that’s why I mentioned about the reviews too. But many of them had written that you can either increase the quanitity of peanut butter or reducing the amount of baking soda. But my suggestion would be instead of milk you can add full cream and increase the quantitiy of PB also.
Truphti, Richa thank you very much.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Divya thank you very much. I also like her shows, but my husband thinks that whatever dessert she prepares is not at all healthy with so many sticks of butter. But I would advice not topping it with almonds because it made slicing the bread a bit difficult.
Sowmya thank you very much.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
OMG!
That bread is PERFECT and one of the most beautiful breads I have ever laid my eyes on! This is too good!
And I am so honoured that you think of passing on an award to me
. Thanks a bunch Madhu 
will chit chat away more now 
May 20th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Awesome bread and tips! I am going to try this one. Actually I dont get almond butter here but I can try flavoring the plain butter with almond / cinnamon / caramel or any other flavor, hopefully that should be ok.
Thanks once again for this recipe. All your bread recipes are great!
May 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
Thank you Madhu…the words that describe the award truly make our day.
Your bread pic looks so good, with all the sprinkled nute. We are sure it isnt as easy as you state it to be. Quite an art to get it right :).
May 21st, 2008 at 6:58 am
Catching up with all of you today and what a great looking cake waiting for me!:))
Delightful dessert. Enjoy the award!
May 21st, 2008 at 8:06 am
Awesome! I have this jar of almond butter I bought from Akay’s influence. But I found out I did not like the taste so was wondering what to do. This is the perfect way to use it
Thanks a bunch!
May 21st, 2008 at 10:09 am
[...] tried out with half the quantity described by Madhu’s recipe. Baked the bread for 200 ° C for 30 mins. [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 10:18 am
I thoroughly enjoyed making and eating it.
Here is my experience :
http://romaspace.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/almond-bread/
May 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
an award waiting for u in my blog:)….congrats and enjooooy!!!
May 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
congratulations on your award.. I bought almond butter.. will try this weekend.. Talk to u soon!
May 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Check out my blog for a surprise..And i loved the rava idly too
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
DK, as usual you are flattering me with your awesome comments. Love to hear them though!
Roma your bread looks awesome. I will also try your version. Thank you very much for trying it immediately.
Pritya, your welcome. If I can bake anybody can. I also started only 2 months back and slowly learning.
Ashaji, thank you very much. Yes the bread was sweet indeed.
Laksh, Dee try it definitely and let me know. As I keep mentioning again and again, don’t top it with almonds. You will not be able to slice it properly.
Ranji, Divya congrats on your awards and thank you very much for passing it to me.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
CONGRATULATIONS on the award!! Good on you!!!
The bread looks yummy. I have to check out the supermarket for almond butter…. (even that sounds really tasty
) I really admire the way that you are able to “invent” new recipes!! In my books - you are a genius!!
PS: I remember I still owe you something
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Spillay thank you very much for such lovely comments. You don’t owe me anything. Morever this recipe is not mine, I saw it in Food TV, I just used almond butter instead of peanut butter.
May 25th, 2008 at 10:39 am
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:03 am
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