Pluot Bread

Pluot Bread

This is for those days when you have too many fruit trees and too much fresh fruit. This is a sweet bread that tastes almost like a pound cake but is still considered bread. It has a light and fluffy texture.

You can use this basic recipe and add in different kinds of fruit. More layers of fruit can also be added, the cooking time would just vary slightly.

The baked fruit keeps some of its juiciness which is a pleasant surprise when you take your first bite.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
Pluots, pitted and cut into small chunks

Directions:

1) Melt the butter. Cream with sugar.
2) Add the cinnamon, vanilla, salt and baking powder.
3) Mix in 1 cup of flour.
4) Add the eggs and milk.
5) Add the last cup of flour. This makes it much easier to stir by dividing!
6) Prepare a 9x4 bread pan. Place half the batter in the pan.
7) Put a layer of pluots.
8) Add the rest of the batter.
9) Place a layer of pluots on top.

Feel free to add in more layers of pluots! We left ours with the skin and varying sizes.