This holiday cinnamon toasting bread is a lightly sweetened bread machine loaf made with warm spices, restrained sugar, and small pieces of dried fruit. It is designed for slicing, toasting, and buttering rather than as a cake-like sweet bread.
Bread Machine Holiday Cinnamon Toasting Bread
A bread machine cinnamon-spice loaf with dried fruit, warm spices, and restrained sweetness, designed for toast.
Ingredients
Liquids and Fats
- 3/4 cup warm milk about 110°F, or 175 ml water plus 17 g milk powder
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
Spice Blend
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- Optional: finely grated zest of 1/4 to 1/2 orange
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups bread flour
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Yeast and Fruit
- 3/4 teaspoon instant yeast or bread machine yeast
- 100 g Old English dried fruit mix
Instructions
- Add the milk and softened butter to the bread machine pan.
- Stir the cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and orange zest, if using, into the milk mixture to hydrate the spices slightly.
- Add the flour, brown sugar, and salt over the liquids.
- Make a small well in the flour and add the yeast.
- Select the Basic or White Bread cycle, 1-pound loaf size, and light crust. Begin the cycle.
- Add the dried fruit at the mix-in signal, or 5 to 10 minutes into kneading if your machine does not signal.
- Allow the cycle to finish fully. Remove the loaf promptly and cool completely before slicing.
Notes
- This bread is designed specifically for toasting and buttering.
- The restrained sugar keeps the loaf bread-like rather than cake-like.
- Orange zest brightens the spice profile without making the loaf citrus-forward.
- The best texture develops after full cooling. The loaf is excellent toasted the following day.
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