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Quick Breads

Quick breads are breads that are leavened with a chemical leavener such as baking soda or baking powder as opposed to yeast. In addition to Irish soda bread, pumpkin bread, banana bread, and zucchini bread (award winning 🎉), this collection of quick breads includes biscuits, scones, and sweeter loaves like dense chocolate loaf bread and one-bowl orange-ricotta pound cake.

a cast iron skillet with Irish soda bread

Super Simple Irish Soda Bread

Irish brown bread, just baked.

Simple Irish Brown Bread

Just-baked lemon-blueberry quick bread.

One-Bowl Lemon-Blueberry Quick Bread

Perfectly Moist Pumpkin Bread

An overhead shot of a mini loaf pan filled with just-baked lemon-ricotta pound cake.

Lemon-Ricotta Pound Cake

Must-Try, Super-Moist Zucchini Bread

just-baked orange-ricotta pound cake — this is a one-bowl cake, flavored with orange zest and orange liqueur, made with butter (as opposed to oil). It stays moist for days and makes a wonderful gift.

One-Bowl, Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake

Overhead shot of two loaves of super moist banana bread.

Mrs. Myers’s Sweet and Moist Banana Bread

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake

Just-baked buttermilk biscuits on a cooling rack.

Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Vermont Cheddar Cheese Soup & Beer Bread

Pawpaw Quick Bread

Rack of oven-baked ribs

The Best, Juiciest Oven-Baked Baby Back Ribs (Easy, Too!)

Flavored with orange zest and orange (or almond) liqueur, this incredibly tasty and moist — thanks to a generous amount of ricotta cheese — orange ricotta pound cake is the perfect treat, a particularly nice afternoon snack with a cup of tea, to have on hand this time of year. It would make a lovely gift as well. // alexandracooks.com

Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake

An overhead shot of a tray of freshly baked cranberry snow scones.

Cranberry-Orange “Snow” Scones

Flowerpot Beer Bread