Recipe: Breakfast Bread (like Publix)

Publix Breakfast Bread Copycat

My mother and her husband spend a chunk of the winter in Florida. The local supermarket is called Publix. Publix sells what they call Breakfast Bread. I have been asked to recreate it. I was given a look at a loaf and the label, which listed the ingredients. Here's my first shot at it.

The bread is chock full of dried fruit and walnuts; apricots, apples, prunes, cranberries and raisins.

I used about 4 1/2 cups of bread flour and 1 cup of whole wheat flour.

Oh yeah, I also added:
2 eggs
2 tbsp. canola oil
2 tbsp. instant yeast
2 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tbs diastatic barley malt
1/8 tsp citric acid
1 cup water
a heaping tbsp. of table salt

The dough took better than 2 hours to ferment and another 1 1/2 hours to proof.

I think this is pretty close.

I found a site with pictures of the bread (click here).