Filled Strawberry Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups canola oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 teaspoon red food coloring
• 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen strawberries, thawed
• 1 (8 ounce) package fat free cream cheese

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease 2 loaf pans.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour,sugar,cinnamon& baking soda.
• 4 add oil, beaten eggs, food coloring& almond extract.
• 5 mix well.
• 6 drain strawberries,reserving 1/2 cup of juice for filling.
• 7 fold in the drained strawberries.
• 8 pour batter evenly in to prepared pans.
• 9 bake at 350 degrees 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of loaf comes out clean.
• 10 let cool 10 minutes in pans.
• 11 remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 12 in a medium mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese& reserved strawberry juice.
• 13 slice each loaf horizontally twice, to make 3 layers.
• 14 spread the cream cheese mixture between the layers& reassemble the loaves.
• 15 wrap loaves in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator to set the filling.
• 16 slice& serve.