Baking bread lately I've been wanting to make raisin bread so yesterday morning I decided to use a white bread recipe and add cinnamon and raisins to it. I then decided to make a cranberry, raisin and pecan bread. I'll focus on the latter since I haven't cut the raisin bread yet.
The cranberry bread was slower to rise than the raisin bread for unknown reasons but I thought I would give using a banneton another try. After flipping it onto the baking pan I was disappointed with it again! So I just left it to rise as one big loaf but I actually should have split it into two loaves.
It was slow to start but in the time I took to do something else it really took off rising.
Before first rise.
After the second rise.
This is the giant loaf it produced.
This morning I sliced the Cranberry bread and toasted a few slices.
Toasted and buttered.
This one came out really good! I'll have to do this again.
I might slice the raisin bread later this morning.
Oh, I also threw together a pan of chocolate and peanut butter brownies.
This was the brownies before baking. No picture after baking.
The cranberry bread was slower to rise than the raisin bread for unknown reasons but I thought I would give using a banneton another try. After flipping it onto the baking pan I was disappointed with it again! So I just left it to rise as one big loaf but I actually should have split it into two loaves.
It was slow to start but in the time I took to do something else it really took off rising.
Before first rise.
After the second rise.
This is the giant loaf it produced.
This morning I sliced the Cranberry bread and toasted a few slices.
Toasted and buttered.
This one came out really good! I'll have to do this again.
I might slice the raisin bread later this morning.
Oh, I also threw together a pan of chocolate and peanut butter brownies.
This was the brownies before baking. No picture after baking.
