Chocolate cranberry raisin bread. With hints of orange zest, cranberries, raisins and almonds, it's practically a dessert! Seriously is there anything more perfect than a slice of warm, crusty bread straight from the oven? Well okay, bacon and chocolate but those are foods from the Gods and pretty much sent from heaven above and don't.
You can cook Chocolate cranberry raisin bread using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chocolate cranberry raisin bread
- Prepare 1 loaf of day old bread, sliced 1".
- You need 2 of milk chocolate bars, pieces.
- Prepare 1 cup of milk.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of whipping cream.
- It’s 1/4 cup of unsalted butter, quartered.
- You need 3 of eggs.
- It’s 3 of egg yolks.
- Prepare 2 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need 1/2 tsp of red pepper.
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 1 tsp of almond extract.
- You need 3 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 1 of golden raisins.
- It’s 1 of dried cranberries.
Cranberries: Dried cranberries (or raisins!) are best for this wet dough. I haven't tried this bread with fresh or frozen cranberries. Cranberry Raisin Bread is a perfect, simple, delicious, satisfying sweet yeast bread. This chocolate cranberry bread can be shaped like a loaf if baked in a loaf pan or like pull-apart buns if baked in a round cake pan.
Chocolate cranberry raisin bread step by step
preheat oven to 325'F.
add chocolate pieces, milk, cream and butter into a glass mixing bowl. place bowl on top a pot of simmering water in order to melt chocolate. Stir often to mix ingredients. Once melted remove bowl from heat..
add all eggs to a separate mixing bowl and whip until eggs are light and fluffy. add liquid extracts and continue to mix. add melted chocolate and mix well. add cocoa powder and mix again..
sprinkle some raisins and cranberries into the bottom of a buttered baking dish pan. lay the sliced bread into pan. pour custard over the bread. cover air tight and let rest for 20 minutes to allow time for the bread to absorb custard..
sprinkle some more raisins and cranberries on top of bread. sprinkle some sugar on top. place bread in oven and bake for 50 minutes..
The bread is made from a standard brioche recipe kneaded in the stand mixer before incorporating frozen cranberries and dark chocolate chips. Cranberry Raisin Pie Recipe & Video. There was a time when the only thing I made with fresh cranberries was cranberry sauce. Since this Cranberry Raisin Pie has both a top and bottom pastry crust, it has that perfect pastry-to-filling ratio. I am using my favorite pie crust pastry.
