Dried Fruit Bread

If your bread machine has been gathering dust, this is the recipe to pull it back into action. Toss everything in, hit start, and walk away. An hour later you’ve got a warm, fragrant loaf studded with chewy dried fruit and scented with cinnamon.

The crumb is soft and just slightly sweet, more breakfast bread than dessert. It slices beautifully for toast and takes butter like a dream.

Pro Tips

• Add the dried fruit at the “mix-in” beep if your machine has one. Adding it at the start can break the fruit into tiny bits during kneading.
• Use whatever dried fruit mix you like. Raisins, cranberries, chopped apricots, and diced dates all work well here.
• Slice the loaf after it cools completely for the cleanest cuts. Warm bread tears instead of slicing.