Make this easy Guinness Bread recipe for St. Patrick’s day this year. After all everyone gets tired of sweets and drinking at some point, give them some of this yummy beer bread!
Guinness Bread
Guinness Bread is a wonderful treat any time of year, but with St. Patrick’s Day coming up it is all the more enticing. This easy beer bread recipe is perfect to make for breakfast or brunch, and goes very well with stews and baked beans too (like brown bread). No worries, the alcohol cooks off in baking, so the kids can enjoy some of the Guinness Bread as well.
Making Guinness Bread
It is quite easy to make this Irish Beer Bread, just a few minutes of prep and pop it in the oven to bake. Full recipe below.
Ingredients for Irish Beer Bread
Here is everything you need to make the recipe:
You will also need a loaf pan and nonstick cooking spray or shortening to coat the interior of pan.
- 1 cup Rolled Oats
- 2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/4 cup melted Butter
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 12 oz Guinness
Preparation
First, prepare your loaf pan with cooking spray or grease it with shortening. Then mix together the milk and vinegar, set aside for 10 minutes.
Mix the dry ingredients together for the beer bread.
Add the wet ingredients, mix together well and pour the Guinness beer batter into the greased loaf pan, sprinkle oats on top and bake. Cool the bread before serving.
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Guinness Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rolled Oats
- 2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/4 cup melted Butter
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 12 oz Guinness
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425.
- Grease a loaf pan.
- Combine milk and vinegar and set aside for 10 minutes.
- Mix together 3/4 cup of oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, stir together the butter, vanilla, milk mixture and Guinness.
- Add dry mixture into the liquid mixture, and stir until blended.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle top with remaining oats.
- Bake 30 minutes, then reduce temperature to 400 and bake for additional 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool in pan for 30 minutes before moving to a wire rack.
Nutrition
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Heather Tasker says
Wow! I can’t do bread or beer, but IF I could….!
This sounds fantastic. Shared with friends.
Great post!