Oh yes 😍 Blueberry Cream Cheese Bread — sweet, tangy, and perfect for breakfast or brunch. Here’s a classic, moist version with a creamy swirl.
🫐🍞 Blueberry Cream Cheese Bread
Ingredients
For the cream cheese filling:
- 8 oz (225 g) cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the bread:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil or melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries (if frozen, don’t thaw)
Optional topping:
- 2–3 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions
1️⃣ Preheat oven
- Preheat to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
2️⃣ Make cream cheese filling
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Set aside.
3️⃣ Mix dry ingredients
- In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4️⃣ Mix wet ingredients
- In another bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla, and milk.
5️⃣ Combine
- Stir dry ingredients into wet until just combined.
- Gently fold in blueberries.
6️⃣ Layer the bread
- Pour half of the batter into the pan.
- Dollop cream cheese mixture over batter.
- Pour remaining batter on top.
- Optional: swirl lightly with a knife.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar if using.
7️⃣ Bake
- Bake 50–60 minutes, until golden and a toothpick comes out clean (avoid piercing cream cheese directly).
- Cool 10 minutes in pan, then transfer to wire rack.
🔥 Tips & Variations
- Extra blueberry flavor: add 1 tsp lemon zest
- Chocolate twist: sprinkle mini chocolate chips over cream cheese layer
- Make muffins: bake 18–22 minutes for individual servings
- Cream cheese swirl: don’t over-swirl, or it will disappear
If you want, I can give a quick 1-bowl version that’s super easy and still has a beautiful cream cheese swirl 😏.
Do you want that one-bowl version?
