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Cranberry Walnut Bread
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Cranberry Walnut Bread

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Total Time3 hours 25 minutes
Course: Snack, Tea Time
Cuisine: American
Servings: 2 loaves

Ingredients

  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • ¼ cup butter melted
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • zest of 1 lemon optional
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsps quick rise yeast
  • ½ cup dried cranberries rough chopped
  • ½ cup walnuts rough chopped

Instructions

  • Mix liquid ingredients.
  • Mix flour, salt and sugar.
  • Add ingredients to bread machine in order of manufacturer's instructions. Mine is wet ingredients, flour mixture, then sprinkle the yeast on top of the flour. Start the dough cycle.
  • Add the cranberries and walnuts at the beep. You can add them with the flour at the beginning but they may get more ground up.
  • Spray 2 loaf pans with cooking spray. At the end of the dough cycle. Divide dough in half, shape into 2 loaves. Cover the loaf pans with a clean cloth and allow dough to rise another 60 minutes.
  • Heat oven to 350 degrees and bake 40 minutes. See note.

Notes

Note:  Instead of 2 regular size loaves I made one regular and 2 mini loaves.  The mini loaves only needed 25 minutes to cook.