Bread Ingredients:
Glaze Ingredients:
-Butter a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan (or use nonstick cooking spray). Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
-In the bowl of your mixer, beat the butter, sugar and cream cheese until fluffy.
-With the mixer on a medium speed, add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the bowl in between additions.
Mix in the vanilla.
-Whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt) in a medium bowl.
-Add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture. Mix on a low speed just until incorporated.
-Add buttermilk and mix on a low speed just until combined--do not over mix!
-Gently fold in the strawberries with a rubber spatula.
-Spread into your prepared loaf pan. Bake in your preheated 350-degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes,
testing with a toothpick.
-Allow the bread to cool slightly before drizzling with the glaze.
To prepare glaze:
-Put the confectioners sugar into a small bowl. Whisk in the almond extract and light cream.
-The glaze should be thick enough to drizzle, but not so thin that it is watery. (If necessary, add more cream--a
teaspoon at a time--or more confectioners sugar to get the right consistency.)
-Pour the glaze onto your bread. Frost the bread while it was still slightly warm, so that the glaze would melt a bit and drizzle down the sides.