• prep: 1 hr
• cook: 40 min
• total: 1 hr 40 min

servings:

This Christmas bread combines all the best parts of Stollen, Panettone, and Fruitcake for a buttery brioche studded with vanilla and rum infused fruit.

• 170 gramsraisins (~1 cup packed)
• 85 gramsslivered almonds (~3/4 cup)
• 120 gramscandied dried apples (~3/4 cup chopped)
• 60 gramscandied citrus peel (~1/2 cup chopped)
• 35 gramscandied ginger (~1/4 cup finely chopped)
• 1 podTahitian vanilla bean (just the beans scraped from the pod)
• 1.5 gramsground nutmeg (~1 1/2 teaspoons)
• 3/4 cupdark rum
• 3/4 cupwhole milk
• 8 gramsactive dry yeast (about 2 teaspoons)
• 1 tablespoonhoney
• 500 gramsbread flour
• 142 gramscultured unsalted butter (10 tablespoons at room temperature)
• 4 largeeggs (1 cup at room temperature)
• 1/2 teaspoonsalt
• 142 gramscultured unsalted butter (10 tablespoons melted)
• powdered sugar (for dusting)

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