Pecan Cherry Bread Recipes

CHERRY-PECAN SWIRL BREAD

Steps:

• Prepare the Dough: Cook sour cream, butter, salt, and 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar in a saucepan over medium-low, stirring occasionally, until butter just melts, 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool to 110°F to 115°F, about 10 minutes.
• Stir together warm water, yeast, and remaining 1 teaspoon granulated sugar in a bowl. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Beat sour cream mixture, yeast mixture, eggs, and orange zest with a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment on medium-low speed, gradually adding 3 3/4 cups of the flour, until a soft Dough forms and pulls away from sides but still adheres to bottom of bowl, 2 minutes.
• Turn out Dough on a lightly floured work surface. Knead until smooth and elastic, 10 minutes, adding up to 1/2 cup remaining flour in very small increments, if needed to keep the Dough workable. (It should be tacky but not sticky.) Place in a lightly greased (with cooking spray) bowl, turning to coat all sides. Cover; chill at least 8 hours or up to 24 hours.
• Turn out Dough on a lightly floured work surface. Roll into a 20- x 16-inch rectangle. Coat a 12-inch cast-iron skillet with cooking spray. Place a round sheet of parchment paper in bottom of skillet. Set aside.
• Prepare the Filling: Stir together brown sugar, cherries, pecans, softened butter, cinnamon, and cardamom until mixture is well combined and the texture of wet sand.
• Gently spread Filling over Dough, carefully pressing to adhere, leaving a 1-inch border on both long sides. Starting at 1 long side, roll up jelly-roll style. Using a serrated knife, cut log in half lengthwise. Arrange pieces side by side, cut sides up, on the work surface. Carefully twist together, keeping cut sides facing up. Form twisted Dough into a 9-inch ring, tucking ends underneath. Place in prepared skillet, and cover loosely with plastic wrap. Let stand in a warm place until almost doubled in size, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in lower third position. Remove and discard plastic wrap from Dough. Bake until golden brown and cooked through, 35 to 40 minutes, tenting with aluminum foil after 25 minutes, if needed, to prevent excessive browning. Remove from oven.
• Prepare the Glaze: Whisk together powdered sugar and orange juice. Drizzle over bread. Serve warm, or transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

CHERRY PECAN BREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and buttermilk. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture just until blended. Fold in the cherries and pecans. Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan., Bake at 350° for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

PECAN CHERRY BREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in pecans, cherries and vanilla. , Pour into a greased and floured 8x4-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

MARASCHINO CHERRY NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Combine sugar, shortening, eggs, and salt in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined.
• Mix flour and baking powder together in a medium bowl. Add flour mixture to shortening mixture in 2 or 3 batches, alternating with maraschino cherry juice, mixing batter well after each addition.
• Cut each cherry into 4 pieces; stir into batter with pecans. Spoon mixture into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen and invert loaf onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.

CHOCOLATE-CHERRY PECAN BREAD

Steps:

• Mix flours, sugar, salt, yeast, and water in a large bowl.
• Add cherries, chocolate chips, and pecans. Stir well to make a very soft dough, and cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
• Let rest at room temperature overnight, or for at least 12 hours; the dough will be bubbly and puffy.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and fold it onto itself a few times.
• Let it rest 15 minutes, then form it into a ball.
• Place it in a lightly greased bowl, smooth side down. Cover and let rise at room temperature about 2 hours, until a slight indentation remains when poked with a finger.
• During the last 30 minutes of rising, preheat the oven to 450°F and place a bread crock (or a heavy, 4- to 4 1/2-quart oven-safe pot) in the oven while it heats.
• When the dough is risen, remove the crock from the oven, and turn the dough out of the bowl and into the crock; the smooth side will be facing up.
• Shake the crock gently to settle the dough, then cover with the lid and return to the oven.
• Bake the bread for 20 minutes, then remove the lid and continue to bake another 30 to 40 minutes, until the bread is deep brown in color and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers about 205°F.
• Remove the crock from the oven, turn the bread onto a rack, and cool before slicing. Yield: 1 loaf.

CHERRY-PECAN COCOA BREAD

Steps:

• In bread machine pan, place the first eight ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select basic bread setting. Choose crust color and loaf size if available., Check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed. Just before the final kneading (your bread machine may audibly signal this), add the pecans and cherries. Bake according to bread machine directions.

CHERRY-PECAN-APRICOT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°.
• Grease a 9 X 5-inch loaf pan, line the bottom with wax paper and grease the paper.
• Beat the butter with sugar until fluffy; blend in the egg.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
• Combine the apricots, sourcream and almond extract.
• Stir the flour mixture into the sugar mixture alternately with apricot mixture.
• Fold in the nuts and cherries.
• Turn into the loaf pan and bake 50 minutes or until crust springs back when lightly poked with fingertip.
• Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes, turn out and cool completely.

CHERRY PECAN BREAD

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix for an additional minute. Add the applesauce, vanilla and almond extract.
• Alternately add flour mixture and milk until ingredients are just moistened. Stir in cherries and nuts.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 X5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 60-70 minutes or until done.
• Cool.

CHERRY PECAN BREAD

Steps:

• Stir together first 3 ingredients.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
• Alternately add dry ingredients and buttermilk to creamed mixture.
• Beat just til blended after each addition.
• Fold in pecans and cherries.
• Turn batter into greased loaf pans.
• Stud with pecan halves and halved cherries, if desired.
• Bake for 55-60 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan;cool on wire rack.