Guinness Bread With Orange-Honey Butter
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, this easy to make Guinness bread is healthy, deeply flavorful, slightly sweet and dangerously addictive. Especially, when shmeared with a pat of orange-honey butter.
Ingredients
Bread:
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 4 tbs unsalted butter, melted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup kefir (you can substitute buttermilk if you prefer)
- 1 (11-12 oz) bottle of Guinness
- ½ cup golden raisins
Orange-Honey Butter:
- 8 tbs unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 tbs honey
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- zest of one orange
Instructions
Bread:
- Preheat oven to 425 °F. Grease a 9 x 5 x 2½ inch loaf pan and line it with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the butter, vanilla extract, kefir and beer.
- Gently stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix just long enough to combine. Add the the raisins and stir to combine. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with additional oats.
- Place the bread in the oven and immediately turn the temperature down to 400 °F. Bake for about 40-45 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow the bread to sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes then turn it onto a baking rack and allow to cool.
Orange-Honey Butter:
- In a small bowl, mix together the butter, honey, orange zest and salt until well combined. I did this by hand but an electric mixer would work as well.
- Remove to a bowl, cover and refrigerate. Allow to come to room temperature prior to serving.