Copycat Recipe of Publix Grocery Store’s Breakfast Bread
Make in your breadmaker to enjoy this wonderful fruit and nut bread
You’ve got to move fast to get your loaf of Breakfast Bread at Publix Grocery Stores. Offered fresh each morning, it’s often all gone by mid-day.
The combination of fruit and nuts makes it so yummy. Apples, apricots, plums, walnuts, dried, cranberries and raisins. What’s not to love?
Looking for a breadmaker recipe to duplicate the yummy fruit and nut bread, known at Publix Grocery's Breakfast Bread? Share on XNow you can make your own version at home with your own breadmaker. Enjoy!
Breakfast Bread, like Publix, for bread machine
Publix makes a wonderful breakfast bread that they can't keep in stock. Filled with dried fruit, this recipe is easy to make with a breadmaker.
Equipment
- 1 breadmaker
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 2 1/4 tsp 1 packet instant yeast
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp plum pastry filling (see below)
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 egg beaten
Dry Ingredients
- 3-3 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp wheat gluten
Dried Fruit and Nuts
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 tbsp dried cranberries
- 3 tbsp dried apricots, chopped
- 3 tbsp dried apples, chopped
Instructions
Wet Ingredients
- In a mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water and mix well. Add 3/4 cup more warm water, plum filling, oil, sugar, honey, salt, cinnamon and egg. Mix well. Pour into bottom of bread machine.
Dry Ingredients
- Add the flour and wheat gluten on top of the wet ingredients in the bread machine. Set the bread machine to REGULAR WHITE BREAD CYCLE, 1 1/2 POUND LOAF, MEDIUM CRUST.Monitor dough as it mixes for the first few minutes and add more flour or water as needed, a tablespoon at a time, to form a smooth ball of dough. It should be firm enough to hold its own shape and not sticky. It should not be so dry that it is crumbly.
Dried Fruit & Nuts
- Mix the fruit and nuts together in a bowl. Add to bread machine when it beeps to add dried fruit near the end of the kneading cycle. This usually happens 5 to 10 minutes before the end of the dough kneading cycle. After bread is baked, remove from bread machine and baking basket. Allow to cool before slicing.Makes one 1 1/2 pound loaf of Breakfast Bread like Publix makes.
Notes
I make the plum pastry filling ahead and freeze several packets in two tablespoons each.Â
I didn’t see the plum filling recipe?
Here it is: https://dawnpilot.com/food/recipes/plum-butter-or-prune-plum-filling-recipe/
Find the plum filling recipe here: https://dawnpilot.com/food/plum-butter-or-prune-plum-filling-recipe/
This is a great recipe. The best baked beans DO NOT come in cans! I find this recipe good served hot or cold.