Cheddar Bacon Chive Quick Bread

This cheddar bacon chive quick bread will have you doing back flips over its cheesy bacon-y goodness.

This Cheddar Bacon Chive Quick Bread is loaded with lots of chopped bacon, a cup of cheddar cheese, and a big handful of chopped chives.

It's bacon-y, cheesy, and oniony. All kinds of goodness.

What are quick breads?

Quick breads are breads that are leavened with baking soda and/or baking powder. Essentially, they do not include yeast or sourdough, and do not require a first and second rise before baking. 

The category typically includes such breads as zucchini bread, banana bread, and soda bread. Basically, it's muffins baked in a bread pan.

The texture is more tender because you don't really develop the flour's gluten. In fact, the goal is to handle the batter as gently as possible.

Before the discovery of baking powder and baking soda, even cakes were made with yeast. Today, cakes baked with yeast are pretty rare, but some examples of old fashioned cakes using yeast include this yeasted pound cake, this apple kuchen, and this lardy cake.

Yeast (and sourdough) breads managed to survive and thrive, and quick breads became their own category. As an avid baker who bakes "slow bread" pretty much for therapy, for this I am grateful. Besides, you could never make decent pizza or crostini with baking powder or baking soda. 

This cheddar bacon chive bread is filled with cheese and bacon and is delicious sliced and served straight from the pan. 

It's also exceptionally delicious sliced, toasted, and buttered, something that never occurred to me until I took slices of this bread to work. I shared it with my colleagues who promptly popped the slices in the toaster oven, sending the aroma of toasted cheddar throughout the office. Oh man! 

As much as I love yeasty bread, this cheesy quick bread was pretty darn delicious.

Suggested substitutions for the add-ins: 

1. For the bacon, you can substitute cooked pancetta cubes, ham, or crisped prosciutto. 
2. If you are vegetarian, chopped sun dried tomatoes would be a great substitution for the bacon, along with basil for the chives. 
3. To add a French flair to this bread, substitute some saucisson or jambon sec for the bacon and some Comté or Gruyère for the cheese. 
4. For the milk in this recipe, you can substitute buttermilk. You can also dilute any leftover sour cream or yogurt you have in the fridge with some milk and add it, by volume, to the batter. 

I'd love to hear your ideas for variations on this quick bread! 

In case you're wondering about the bread pan, it's this one from USA pans. I have them in every size and luuurve them. There's something about their being made in the USA, those ridges, and the silicone coating. I've had the one in the photo for nine years (they're great for freezing ice cream too.)

This month's #BreadBakers theme, chosen by Stacy of Food Lust People Love, is quick breads. I'm looking forward to grabbing my fellow bakers' recipes for quick and easy breads. I love all of the recipe titles:

• Banana Nut Bread from Sneha's Recipe
• Cheddar Bacon Chive Quick Bread from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Chocolate Quick Bread from Sara's Tasty Buds
• Coconut Sweet Bread from Passion Kneaded
• Cranberry Pecan Quick Bread from Food Lust People Love
• Espresso Banana Quick Bread with Espresso Streusel from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
• Irish Soda Bread from Anybody Can Bake
• Keto Low Carb Coconut Flour Bread from Cook With Renu
• Lady Grey Date Nut Bread from A Messy Kitchen
• Lemon Blueberry Bread from Palatable Pastime
• Lemon Pistachio Loaf from Ambrosia
• Summer Shandy Beer Bread from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Zucchini Bread from Simply Inspired Meals

Cheddar Bacon Chive Quick Bread

Yield: 10 servings

Author: Karen Kerr

This cheddar bacon chive quick bread will have you doing back flips over its cheesy bacon-y goodness.

ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups (12 ounces) all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3 tablespoons finely sliced chives
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups milk, room temperature
• 6 tablespoons neutral oil
• 6 slices of bacon, cooked, drained, and chopped
• 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese

instructions:

How to cook Cheddar Bacon Chive Quick Bread

1. Heat your oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 9 inch by 5 inch loaf pan with spray oil. Line the bottom and sides with a parchment sling. 
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and chives
3. In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, and oil. 
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until just mixed together. 
5. Stir in the bacon and cheese until just combined. 
6. Pour/scrape the batter into the loaf pan and smooth the top. 
7. Bake the loaf for 40 to 45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a few crumbs. If the bread is getting too brown, you can tent it with foil while baking. 
8. Let the bread cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then remove it from the pan and cool it on a wire rack. 

https://www.karenskitchenstories.com/2019/06/cheddar-bacon-chive-quick-bread.html

Karen's Kitchen Stories

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Recipe and information inspired by Baker Bettie and King Arthur Flour.

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.