Eggless Almond Butter Bread
May 20th, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Breads, My Awards | 
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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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June 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi Madhuram,
It was good but little dry. I used little less milk (whole)thinking 1.5 cup will be too much. I like to bake eggless too so will be trying lot of your recipes.
I am new to your website but already baked this bread.
Thanks for trying the recipe Sonal.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Madhu,
Tried this recipe yesterday. I used a flatter pan and ended up with a drier bread for the 50 minutes of baking time. I also felt the sugar was less for the 2 cups of flour mentioned. Will try another time with a deeper pan or lesser baking time.
Laksh, I’m sorry you didn’t get desirable result with the bread. If you change the pan size you have to change the baking time also accordingly. Wish you had checked the doneness using a tooth pick around 20 minutes. Also this bread is supposed to be eaten with jam, so it doesn’t need more sugar. The original recipe used peanut butter, for a modified version of PB&J sandwich.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:03 am
[...] The original recipe with step-by-step photos can be found here: http://www.egglesscooking.com/2008/05/20/eggless-almond-butter-bread/ [...]
May 25th, 2008 at 10:39 am
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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 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 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 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Check out my blog for a surprise..And i loved the rava idly too
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 10:24 am
an award waiting for u in my blog:)….congrats and enjooooy!!!
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 10:09 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 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!