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    Apricot Cherry Breakfast Bread

    Published by Melissa on February 2, 2015 | Updated June 10, 2022 | 18 Comments

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    This Apricot Cherry Breakfast Bread is a sweet, light, tender bread studded with dried apricots and tart cherries. Serve it for breakfast slathered with your favorite jam.

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    This is the first of eight recipes I’ll be creating for Red Star Yeast this year using their terrific yeast. I’ll post a new recipe on the first Monday of the month for the next eight months. So if you’re a bread lover like me, I hope this is good news. I know my family and I are looking forward to eating lots more homemade breads, sweet treats, and more.

    Last month while I was cruising the Caribbean on the Click Retreat, there was a braided bread on the buffet each morning. It had little pieces of apricot and cranberies in it and little pieces of pearl sugar on top. I couldn’t resist adding a slice to my plate every morning. 

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    This bread is a challah bread with dried fruit added to the dough and then sprinkled with pearl sugar. I started with the Challah recipe on the Red Star Yeast website and adapted it to recreate the breakfast bread I had on the cruise.

    I did a simple two strand braid for this bread, but you could also do a three strand, or even a four strand braid. A few years ago I posted a Whole Wheat Challah bread recipe that gives directions for braiding a four strand braid.

    The breakfast bread on the ship didn’t have as much dried fruit, but I thought a little more would be nice. It also had dried cranberries instead of dried cherries, but when I noticed some dried cherries in the pantry, I couldn’t resist using them instead.

    Apricot Cherry Breakfast Bread

    This bread is great without or without jam. I think it would also make a fabulous French toast too. I plan to try that this weekend.

    My daughter was happy I was teaming up with Red Star Yeast again. She said my Red Star Yeast recipes are some of her favorites. I hope they are some of your favorites too.

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    Cranberry Apricot Breakfast Bread

    Cook Time20 mins
    Total Time20 mins
    Course: Breads
    Keyword: baking, Breakfast, yeast bread
    Servings: 1 loaf
    Author: Barbara Schieving
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    Ingredients

    • 3 ½ cups bread flour
    • 2 ¼ teaspoon 1 package Red Star Active Dry Yeast
    • 2 tablespoons sugar
    • 2 teaspoons salt
    • 1 cup water 120°
    • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
    • 2 eggs room temperature
    • 2 tablespoons dried apricots diced
    • 2 tablespoons dried cherries diced
    • 1 egg
    • 1 tablespoon of water
    • 1 tablespoon pearl sugar

    Instructions

    • In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine 2 ½ cups flour, yeast, sugar, and salt. Add warm water and oil to flour mixture. Add eggs; beat 1 minute at medium speed. Switch to the dough hook and gradually mix in remaining flour to make a smooth dough, add more or less flour as necessary. Add dried fruit. Knead for 5 minutes until smooth and elastic.
    • Place dough in lightly oiled bowl and turn to grease top. Cover; let rise until dough doubles in size and tests ripe.
    • Punch down dough. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface. Pat into a 12 x 6-inch rectangle. Cut into two 3 x 12-inch piece. Shape each piece into a rope. Twist the ropes together. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Cover; let rise until indentation remains after touching.
    • Create egg wash by beating together 1 egg and water. Coat the top of the loaf with egg wash and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
    • Bake in preheated 400° oven 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before serving.

    Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Red Star Yeast, but all opinions expressed are always my own.  You can also find Red Star Yeast on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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    1. Betsy Scotto

      April 28, 2017 at 8:00 am

      I wrote you a few days ago about making ultimate challah in my bread machine. Well, I made this apricot/cherry bread instead and it was wonderful! I made the dough in my bread machine, let it rise 1-1/4 hrs. in large bread pan, and baked it in the oven. The results were excellent. I found it took a bit more flour, and next time will add more dried fruit. But it is great, and much more appropriate size for my bread machine than the challah. Thank you for a great recipe.

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      • Barbara Schieving

        April 28, 2017 at 9:07 am

        Hi Betsy – so nice to hear you like the bread. Thanks for sharing your changes for making it in the bread machine.

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    2. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

      February 11, 2015 at 3:03 am

      You must be Red Star’s hero because every bread you make I think it can’t get better and then it does.

      Reply
    3. Jennifer Farley

      February 04, 2015 at 7:55 am

      I love the beautiful speckles of apricot and cherry. This bread sounds wonderful!

      Reply
    4. Kitchen Belleicious

      February 03, 2015 at 2:26 pm

      i love the sweetness and the texture that the apricot and cherries bring to the bread. It looks delicious

      Reply
    5. Amanda

      February 03, 2015 at 1:29 pm

      This bread look wonderful!!

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    6. Medeja

      February 03, 2015 at 2:17 am

      Yummy! Both beautiful and delicious bread!

      Reply
    7. Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction

      February 02, 2015 at 9:56 pm

      Barbara,
      Your bread looks delicious and the color is amazing.
      Annamaria

      Reply
    8. Claire @ Claire K Creations

      February 02, 2015 at 6:54 pm

      I am definitely a bread lover Barbara! I love how you’ve made the simple braid too it looks so pretty. Looking forward to the rest of the recipes.

      Reply
    9. Betty

      February 02, 2015 at 6:42 pm

      I am a bread lover, so looking forward to these. Love the little bursts of sweetness from the apricots and cherries. 🙂

      Reply
    10. Angie@Angie's Recipes

      February 02, 2015 at 11:57 am

      Looks soft and very delicious!

      Reply
    11. Carol

      February 02, 2015 at 11:16 am

      Oh how I love making bread-and this one looks delicious. What a breakfast treat a slice of this would be.

      Reply
    12. Rocky Mountain Woman

      February 02, 2015 at 9:45 am

      I think it would make wonderful French Toast!

      Reply
    13. Asha

      February 02, 2015 at 7:51 am

      WOW! That is one stunning loaf! Such a perfect crumb… Hmmm. I would love to have a toast of that with marmalade. nom!

      Reply
    14. June Burns

      February 02, 2015 at 7:22 am

      Mmm that looks amazing! I’d love a slice of that for breakfast 🙂

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    15. Rosa

      February 02, 2015 at 6:53 am

      A beautiful bread! I bet it tastes delicious.

      Cheers,

      Rosa

      Reply
    16. Stephanie @ Girl Versus Dough

      February 02, 2015 at 6:24 am

      This bread sounds and looks divine! I am craving a slice right now toasted with some butter on it — or plain straight from the loaf, because I think I’d even be too impatient to eat it for that. 😉

      Reply

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