Killer Cranberry Bread

I love the taste of cranberries, try your hand at this Killer Cranberry Bread. I’ve been hooked on cranberries since I was a little boy. My first memory of cranberry was from a can, however I have been told that my first taste were fresh cranberries at a large family dinner. Regardless, this is my recipe for Killer Cranberry Bread. It is sweet and of course can be eaten all day long! The first time I made this was about 7 pm at a friends house during a dinner party and we baked it in an outdoor brick oven. The results were off the hook and it was devoured completely before it could even cool off. That’s what I call a hit!

This recipe is a spin off from the Simple Artisan Bread Recipe (click for the link to that). It has only been slightly changed, but the finished product is miles away from the original.

Killer Cranberry Bread

Recipe Type: Bake

Cuisine: American

Author: Ray

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 1 hour

Total time: 1 hour 15 mins

Serves: 10

Ingredients

3 Cups All purpose white flour (non-enriched)
1/2 Tsp dry yeast
1 1/2 Tsp Salt
1/2 Cup sugar
1 Cup dried cranberries
1 1/2 Cup warm water

Instructions

Use large bowl
Add all dry ingredients
Mix well
Add 1/2 Cup of warm water
Mix into dough, should be sticky
Let sit 12-24 hours
Cooking:
Pre-heat oven to 500 degrees with dutch oven and lid inside
Shape dough into round loaf
Dust top lightly with flour
Make slits into top of bread to prevent cracking
Place into pre-heated dutch oven
Bake with lid on for 30 minutes
Bake last 15 minutes with lid off
Check with tooth pick
Cool on cooling rack 15-20 minutes
* Optional – Melt a few small pads of butter on top

Bloopers / Fail

Bread fail, Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 9:07am

Ok, Ok, Ok…. A huge lesson learned about 15 minutes ago (which I should have already know)…. Never go upstairs and get change clothes in the last “Crucial” 10 minutes of the bake! I came back down open the oven and was like “Arrghhhh Nooooooooo”. See, I have some friends coming over this morning (in about 20 minutes) and I have been talking about the Killer Cranberry Bread for three weeks, and I just burnt it. So guess what? I will be making this again again real soon, so I can get the no-burnt pictures.