Tag: Best Quick Bread

Zucchini Bread Mini Muffins

Zucchini Bread Mini Muffins: you make these delightful treats with classic quick bread ingredients. The zucchini and vegetable oil give the muffins a terrific texture, a quality also helped also by using both baking soda and baking powder. The hint of cinnamon is delicious, as are the walnuts. They give a delightful chewiness to the muffins. If you are not into nuts, simply leave them out!

Single Zucchini Bread Mini Muffin

These zucchini bread mini muffins are a delight to eat and make. You can make them into regular size muffins or a loaf, and with or without walnuts. Your choice! Whatever way you make this winning recipe, you will love it!

Zucchini Bread Mini Muffins overhead

The recipe comes from Heather Pfeiffer, who used the recipe and placed second for zucchini bread at the 2023 Minnesota State Fair. It was featured in recipe demos and tastings at the 2024 Minnesota State Fair, hosted by the Blue Ribbon Group in the Creative Activities Building’s Cambria Kitchen. Heather’s main tip with the recipe is to drain but not squeeze the grated zucchini before mixing it in. Don’t miss Heather’s blue ribbon winning cookies, also on this site here.  And if you love quick breads, this one is a must try too!

Enjoy!

-Cyndi

 

 

Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread

This Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread has a delightful streusel topping and in its batter: poppyseeds and lemon zest. The flavors are perfectly balanced, making every bite taste fantastic. It’s a tender, yet firm bread that bakes beautifully through the entire loaf (with no part under or over baked).

Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread

Sheila Mullen won best quick bread at the 2021 Minnesota State Fair with this recipe. She won out of 49 entries. Wow!

Sheila Mullen

Sheila says: This is a family and friends favorite.  The original recipe came from a bed and breakfast our family stayed at in Iowa after my sister’s wedding.  It’s so popular that I freeze blueberries in the summer specially so I can bake up a fresh loaf all year long.  I’ve made a few changes to the recipe to make it easier to mix up.

Key Ingredients/Tools/Tips

Sheila uses a Danish whisk with this recipe.

Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread

She thinks one of her secrets to winning was choosing small, equally sized blueberries and not overmixing the batter. The Danish whisk helps with this.

Blueberries for Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread

The streusel is key, adding a richness with just a few ingredients.

Ingredients

You can make the batter in a variety of pans. Sheila favors 4 mini loaves.

For the fair though, she uses pan 7-inches x 3 1/2-inches in size. The bread bakes perfectly, making for perfect slices to enjoy.

Sliced Blue Ribbon Blueberry Bread

Add this to your best recipe pile and bake it soon!

And try more Minnesota winning recipes from our collection, like this one.

-Cyndi