Gluten-Free Holiday Panettone Bread - Citrus Accents: A sweet bread with dried fruit and nuts, plus accents of Orange, that makes a perfect holiday treat.
Panettone Breads have been a staple of the Christmas holiday season for centuries. Essentially a leavened fruit-cake, this bread has a flavorful mix of dried fruits, nuts, and citrus in a sweeter light bread. It is relatively simple to make since it uses baking powder for leavening (yeast for flavoring). This version is a couple inches thick (not quite as tall as some of the traditional cylindrical Panettone breads you may see, but it is more likely you will have a pan in which to bake it).
Text Version of Gluten-Free Recipe
Bread Ingredients
1 Cup White Rice Flour
1/3 Cup Glutinous Rice Flour
1/3 Cup Sorghum Flour
1/3 Cup Quinoa Flour
1 Teaspoon Xanthan Gum
4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
¼ Cup Sugar
2 Tablespoons Yeast
3 Tablespoons Milk
¼ Cup Orange Juice
3 Teaspoons Cream Cheese
2 Tablespoons Hot Water
¼ Cup Unsalted Butter
1 Tablespoon Almond Butter
2 Eggs
2 Teaspoons Vanilla
½ Cup Dried Fruit and Nuts
1 Lemon (for Zest)
1 Tablespoon Butter
Egg Wash Ingredients
1 Egg Yolk
1 Teaspoon Buttermilk or Cream
Directions:
Mix flours and Xanthan gum together in mixer bowl on low speed or with a spoon or spatula. Add baking powder and sugar; mix again.
Add yeast (for flavor) followed by milk, orange juice, and cream cheese; mix on medium-high speed in mixer. Add hot water and butter; mix. Add 2 eggs and remaining bread ingredients; mix well.
Place bread dough into a round 9" greased springform pan.
In a separate bowl combine Egg-Wash ingredients - i.e., egg yolk and buttermilk (or cream). Brush mixture onto top of unbaked bread dough.
Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes; reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for 30 additional minutes.
Your finished bread should look something like this:
