Tutti-fruity Bread | Fruit Bread

Fruit bread has been a childhood favourite of mine! I just loved the splash of colours that these colourful little tutti-fruity bits gave to the soft bread slices. These were a regular at our home and I fondly remember munching on these yummies as an after school snack. This bread is usually a tab sweeter than the regular bread, due to the addition of tutti-fruity. They make perfect tea-time accompaniments :)





Ever since I started baking bread at home, I have been itching to make my version of my childhood favourite bread. Recently, I picked up a little packet of the colourful tutti fruity bits and recreated my own little loaf at home using my favourite bread recipe. This time however, I used all purpose flour and did not mix in wholewheat flour as well as I wanted soft white bread and was gifting this to my cousin sis whom I was visiting over that weekend.  

It turned out beautiful and just as I had expected it to. I had shaped my bread such that the slices can be easily pulled out rather than sliced... just to add in some fun there :) And Oh, my sis and her family did love it :) A lovely bread for home as well as for gifting!

Makes : 1 medium sized loaf

Time (approx): 

• Prep - 15 mins
• Proofing - 60 mins
• Shaping - 10 mins
• Baking - 15 mins

Ingredients:

Plain Flour/Maida - 2 and 1/2 cup

Warm Milk - 1 cup

Instant Yeast - 2.5 tsp

Tutti-fruity - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 tbsp

Olive Oil - 1/2 tbsp

  

Method



• I followed this procedure [How to make yeast dough?] to prepare the yeast dough with the addition of adding in tutti-fruity while making the dough. For this bread I used all purpose flour instead of wholewheat.
• After an hour the dough would have doubled.
• Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
• Dust the work floor with a bit of flour and toss the dough ball on it. 
• Knead for a minute and then roll into a log shape.
• Place the dough log on a greases baking tray.

 

• Gently flatten it a little and using a knife, make horizontal dents on the top with a gap of about an inch.
• Allow the dough to rise for another half hour or so.
• Smear with a little oil and bake at 170 degrees for about 10 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.
• Take it out of the oven and smear a little milk on the top to make the crust soft and place on wire rack to cool.
• Enjoy it warm :) If eating it later, mildly heating in the microwave before eating would make it soft.