Cranberry & white chocolate panettone

Cranberry & white chocolate panettone

The perfect treat to serve up for Boxing Day brunch, panettone is easy to make if you have a food processor fitted with a dough blade

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Cuts into 8 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 3 hrs

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Freezable

Method

  1. Tip the flour, yeast and 1 tsp salt into the food processor fitted with a dough blade. Mix briefly, then add the sugar and mix again. Warm the milk to hand hot and, in a separate bowl, beat the eggs with the vanilla extract. Add both the milk and eggs to the dry ingredients and mix to a soft dough. Work the dough in the processor for 2 mins, then leave in the machine until doubled in size, about 1 hr.
  2. Cut softened butter into the processor, pulse until incorporated, leave for a further 1 hr to rise again. Add the cranberries, candied peel and white chocolate to the machine, then pulse gently to mix evenly.
  3. Butter and base line a 20cm deep cake tin. Make a 10cm collar with double thickness baking paper and line the sides of the tin. Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly to shape into a ball. The dough will be very soft, so flour your hands well before handling it and work quickly. Drop the dough into the tin and leave to rise for 30 mins. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
  4. Brush top of the dough liberally with beaten egg and scatter over almonds. Bake for 45-50 mins until the well risen and deep golden brown. Turn out of the tin and cool on a wire rack. Cut into wedges to serve. Will keep for 2 weeks wrapped in foil, or freeze on the day of making for up to 1 month.
Try

Kneading dough

Don't have a food processor? Just knead by hand on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic.

681 kcalories, protein 13g, carbohydrate 95g, fat 30 g, saturated fat 17g, fibre 3g, sugar 44g, salt 0.65 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2010.

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  • Binder photo my good food

    12 December 2009

    my good food commented on this recipe

    Eleanor Made two of these one with cherries,i did find that it seemed to caramalise a bit on the bottom.It tastes lovely eaten on the day but not sure it would keep for two weeks tho'.Will make some more and wrap in celophane and decorate with ribbon and give as gifts. ****

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  • Binder photo Paula

    12 December 2009

    Paula rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    made this however the dough was very wet at stage one so added more flour but even though it was baked for 55 minutes it still was not cooked.

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  • Binder photo Lushious

    22 December 2009

    Lushious commented on this recipe

    This was very disappointing. Also found it very wet and it was not a dough but more a batter at one point, but once cooked, it was awfully dry and tasteless. I was expecting that rich buttery, vanilla flavour. Mine was just like cardboard. Such a shame as I love pannetone, but was really not worth the effort - sorry!

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  • Binder photo Beth

    10 January 2010

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  • Binder photo santana

    15 December 2010

    santana rated and commented on this recipe

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    I made this last Christmas. It's the first time I have made panettone and it was a great success. So much so, that the family have requested that I make it again this year.

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  • Binder photo Saraa

    04 March 2011

    Saraa rated and commented on this recipe

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    I made this cake Or my friends birthday, i followed the riacipe exactly But it was really bad at the end the dough was very wet and very hard to mange, any way had to throw it away.

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  • Binder photo Victoria Plum

    08 January 2012

    Victoria Plum rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is the first time I have made a Panettone and I was really pleased with the results. I followed the recipe exactly, but found that the cooking time was not adequate my oven is fairly new and I cook a lot of cakes without any problems, so not sure why it took so long, it was about an hour and a half until it was cooked properly. This didn't seem to affect the taste or texture and everyone has enjoyed it. I would definately make this again!

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  • Binder photo maryellen

    24 November 2012

    maryellen commented on this recipe

    i made this last year and was very dubious about using yeast with plain flour as i was sure it was an error and should have been strong/bread flour. went ahead with recipe and while it turned out looking ok the consistency was all wrong and i am still sure it is the wrong flour in the recipe. very disappointing and ended up giving to to the birds. it was honestly my only ever baking disaster. I have tried to find other panettone recipes but cannot find. Would love to to have another go at this as the flavour combination is so appealling and my kids love pannettone . any suggestions???

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    28 December 2012

    hallcross678 rated and commented on this recipe

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    I have made this recipe today and it has worked a treat, It did take about 1 hour 20 approx to cook maybe a tad longer but all the same stunning and wonderful taste I will be making it again next Christmas

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  • Binder photo Anoushka

    28 March 2013

    Anoushka commented on this recipe

    I wonder if a similar recipe would work in bread maker? I am sure I have seen one in my bread maker booklet so will try it out. On the continent we bake this type of cake for Easter and ice it.

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Cuts into 8 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 3 hrs

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Freezable

Ingredients

  • 500g plain flour , plus extra for dusting
  • 2 x 7g sachets easy-blend dried yeast
  • 100g golden caster sugar
  • 200ml milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200g butter , softened
  • 175g dried cranberries
  • 100g candied peel , finely chopped
  • 85g white chocolate , chopped into chunks

TO FINISH

  • 1 egg , lightly beaten
  • 2 tbsp flaked almonds
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681 kcalories, protein 13g, carbohydrate 95g, fat 30 g, saturated fat 17g, fibre 3g, sugar 44g, salt 0.65 g

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