Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread

The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge: No 9. Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread

Each week (or so) I will be making a bread recipe from Peter Reinhart’s wonderful book, The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread. The nineth recipe in the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge is Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread.

Growing up it was always a real treat when my mom brought cinnamon raisn bread home. I loved it toasted and smeared with butter. There were times, when I'd go through half a loaf in one day. When my mom asked about it, I blamed it on my brothers. :)

This was my first time making this bread on my own. I made one loaf with the walnuts and one without. I liked the flavour of the walnuts in this bread but I didn't like the texture. I prefer the soft bread that I remembered from my childhood.

This is a wonderful recipe and I know I'll be making this bread over and over again.

Show some love to the other challenge participants of this challenge.

Up next: Corn Bread!

17 comments:

  1. A delicious bread! Nice flavor combo!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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  2. Scrumptious bread, very flavourful bread indeed..

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  3. Looks beautiful! We loved this bread too. Sigh. Now I want some.

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  4. Ooh, another droolworthy loaf of bread. I can almost taste it!

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  5. I LOVE this bread. Glad you enjoyed it as well!

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  6. Lovely bread.
    Great photos x

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  7. Lovely flavours in the bread it looks delicious. :-)

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  8. Great flavors here. I'm not much of a baker but I'm enjoying watching from the sidelines. However........I'm ready for cornbread that's next. Now that I can make, but I'm from the south and it was a daily staple in our house when I was growing up. Lots of controversary on how much sugar goes into cornbread (a north v.s. the south kind of thing).
    Sam

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  9. Ciao ! I totally agree ! It was a wonderful bread ! I love your photos !

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  10. Yummy combination of flavors!

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  11. Anonymous6:42:00 PM

    Your loaves look wonderful!

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  12. Yummie, your bread look so tasty...cinnamon, raisin and walnut...delicious!

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  13. Anonymous10:30:00 AM

    This looks good and I have to agree with walnut texture on bread, it is just weird.

    Harcout
    vanilla beans

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  14. Paula it looks fantastic, I too am looking forward to the cornbread!

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  15. Your bread looks great! I'm just wishing I had a buttery toasted slice for breakfast!

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  16. Hum, magnifique, Bravo

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