If working with yeast doesn’t come easy, then you’ll want to be sure to keep track of delicious quick bread recipes like Mindy’s Cranberry Sauce Bread! Mindy makes this bread when she wants to use up the leftover cranberry relish, but you don’t have to wait until next winter to bake up this carby treat. Who can resist a slice or two of her moist berry bread?

If you’re following a quick bread recipe, you’ll want to remember this key point: baking soda instantly becomes active when wet, and a little goes a long way — use it in recipes that call for acidic ingredients, like the cranberries and oranges in this recipe! It’s the baking soda that gives Mindy’s cranberry bread its addicting texture. If you’re using less acidic ingredients, you can use baking powder — just remember it isn’t as strong as baking soda!

Just because it’s a bread recipe, doesn’t mean you can’t experiment (be sure to remember these tips)! You can even ask Mindy and read about her baking experiments on Mindy’s Mouthful. Her bread recipe actually came about after a bit of recipe tweaking :).