Chocolate Fruit Bread with Lemon Glaze
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Need
- 30 Grams fresh yeast or 2 tsp dried
- 190 Grams milk
- 40 Grams brandy
- 130 Grams butter cubed BUY
- a few saffron threads
- 1/2 Teaspoon turmeric
- 100 Grams golden caster sugar
- 2 large eggs + 2 yolks
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
- Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 450 Grams bakers flour
- finely grated zest 1 lemon, 1 orange
- 120 Grams mixed dried fruit of choice (cranberries, sultanas, currants)
- 60 Grams crystallised ginger, chopped finely
- 60 Grams chocolate dark in pieces BUY
- 60 Grams nuts of choice, toasted
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Glaze
- 100 Grams icing sugar
- 3-5 Drops doTERRA Oils doTERRA lemon oil BUY
- 1-2 Teaspoons fresh lemon juice or as needed
Do
- 1
Place yeast, milk, brandy, butter, saffron and turmeric into Thermomix bowl and warm 2 min/37°C/speed 1.
- 2
Allow to sit in Thermomix bowl for a few minutes to infuse and for the butter to keep melting.
- 3
Add sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, flour and zests and knead 3 min/Interval.
- 4
Add mixed fruit, ginger, chocolate and nuts and knead 1 min/Interval.
- 5
Tip dough out into a buttered glass or ceramic bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours.
- 6
Remove dough from fridge. Allow to rise until double. This will take a while as the dough has to wake up after being refrigerated.
- 7
Butter 1-2 loaf tins or a round springform tin and divide the dough between. Allow to rise to the top of the tins before baking.
- 8
Preheat oven to 180°C. Place bread into middle rack of the oven and reduce the temperature to 170°C. Bake around 30-40 minutes until loaf sounds hollow when tapped and crust is golden.
- 9
Cool and remove from tin before making the glaze.
- 10
To make the glaze, combine all ingredients with a fork making sure the sugar is well combined with no lumps. Pour over the loaves.
- 11
Serve toasted with or without butter.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
