11 Easy Leftover Cranberry Sauce Bread Recipes

Wondering what to do with leftover cranberry sauce? Here are eleven quick cranberry sauce bread recipes that will have you actually planning to have leftover sauce! Choose from delicious breads, muffins, scones, and even a decadent pull-apart bread that all feature cranberry sauce to have throughout the winter months.

One of my favorite foods during the holiday season is cranberries and cranberry sauce. I make a yummy homemade orange cranberry sauce sweetened only with maple syrup that I pretty much wait all year to eat. But I’m in the minority in my family so we always have leftover cranberry sauce after holiday meals.

Thankfully, there are some delicious ways to use up that leftover sauce – like these eleven cranberry sauce bread recipes illustrate. You’ll find options for loaves, muffins, scones, and even an incredible looking pull-apart bread, that will help you not waste a bit of any cranberry sauce you may have. The bonus is that these are recipes everyone will love, whether they eat cranberry sauce at the dinner table or not.

The other great thing about these recipes – and actually all my other best bread recipes – is that since bread freezes beautifully, you can make and freeze these to eat whenever you want. No excuses to let that sauce lay dormant.

Bread Recipes Using Cranberry Sauce

1. Cranberry Crumb Loaves

This is a fun recipe where the topping starts out as part of the dough. You can make this with any kind of cranberries (fresh, dried, sauce), but I love the pockets of sauce that’s created when spoonfuls of leftover cranberry sauce are added. Bonus – they make terrific food gifts!

2. Leftover Cranberry Sauce Bread – Oh My Veggies

This is a vegan bread that uses some whole wheat, flax seeds, and coconut milk.

3. Cranberry Sauce Sticky Bread – Oats & Sesame

Eggless, dairy free, and sweetened with applesauce and cranberry sauce, this is a “sweet and tangy moist bread.”

4. Holiday Breakfast Cranberry Sauce Quick Bread – The Kitchn

A truly quick bread, this is described as “not too sweet and has the undertones of the plucky cranberry sauce and tartness of buttermilk.”

5. Cranberry Brie Pull-Apart Bread – Delish

A decadent appetizer bread that starts with a loaf of premade bread that you cut and stuff with cranberry sauce and cheese. Um, yum.

6. Quick Cranberry Nut Bread – Ocean Spray

Of course Ocean Spray would have a way to use their whole berry canned sauce, but any leftover sauce that equals about 1 1/2 cups would work, too.

7. Banana Cranberry Bread – Allrecipes

Adding bananas adds a different flavor and moisture (a note on the recipe – I’d substitute real butter in place of the shortening, of course…).

 

8. Oatmeal Cranberry Applesauce Muffins – Food.com

This muffin is made with whole wheat and oats, sweetened with applesauce and includes both dried cranberries and cranberry sauce.

9. Cranberry Sauce Muffins with Oat Streusel Topping – Ahead of Thyme

A recipe that blends the cranberry sauce into the dough and then tops the muffins with a brown sugar-oat streusel.

10. Leftover Cranberry Sauce Muffins – Two Peas and Their Pod

A simple batter is made special with leftover cranberry sauce hidden inside of each muffin and sugared tops.

11. Cranberry Sauce Scones – Created By Diane

The sauce is mixed into the dough for these scones for this quick and easy recipe you can make in a stand mixer or by hand. There are options to add other flavors, too, by adding dried cranberries, chocolate chips, lemon, and nuts.

See what I mean about needing to plan cranberry sauce leftovers now? With these bread recipes using cranberry sauce, you won’t have a problem using it up – the only problem now will be having enough!