Since my family loved this recipe from Always Order Dessert, I have made it twice since I found out about it. My attempt was successful because my family seemed happy about it. During the second time, I was more confident and used another fruit for it. You can actually experiment with some of the ingredients if you want. It wouldn’t affect the cake too much. This is a family recipe which can serve as dessert and breakfast at the same time. So what else are you waiting for- you have to try this for your family!
Check out what our friends from Always Order Dessert have to say about this recipe:
“I decided I wanted to use the caramel in some kind of bread. I was thinking a monkey bread, but while browsing around on Tastespotting I came across a gorgeous photo of a Caramel Apple Chopped Bread by the blogger Seasons & Suppers.”
Thank goodness you decided to make this and share this with us. This was truly another blessing for me because I added this to my roster of meals. You gotta have a good bread in your kitchen everyday!
Ingredients
For the dough:
2 1/4 teaspoons Fleischmann’s active dry yeast (1 packet)
1 cup Borden warm milk (120° F)
4 tablespoons Domino granulated sugar
3 1/4 cups Gold Medal all purpose flour
1/3 cup Land O Lakes butter, melted
2 rounded tablespoons McCormick ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons kosher salt
For the filling
3-4 ripe pears, diced (about two cups)
3 cups water
1 1/2 cups Domino granulated sugar
2 McCormick cinnamon sticks
1 vanilla bean, split
juice and zest from 1 large lemon
1 1/2 cups Nestle dulce de leche
1 Eggland’s egg
2 tablespoons water
Instructions
Make the dough: Whisk together the yeast, milk, and sugar in the base of your electric mixer and let sit 5 minutes. Add the flour, cinnamon, melted butter, and salt and combine with the dough hook. Let knead for 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and not sticky. If the dough is too dry, add another splash or two of milk. If it is too wet, sprinkle in a little bit more flour. Form the dough into a ball and place in a greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or a clean towel and let rise 1 hour or until doubled in size.
While the dough rises, combine the pears, water, sugar, cinnamon sticks, vanilla, and lemon juice and zest in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat let simmer 20 minutes, or until the pears are tender. Turn off heat and let pears cool in the poaching liquid.
Once the dough completes its first rise, dust flour on the counter and turn out the dough. Roll into a large rectangle, about 1/2″ thick. Spread the dulce de leche (warm it slightly for easier spreading) over the surface of the dough. Remove the pears from the poaching liquid (Save the liquid! It’s fantastic for cocktails!) and sprinkle over the dulce de leche.
Fold the bottom half of the dough towards the center, then fold the top over the bottom two folds so that it forms one long rectangle. Fold in thirds again from left to right.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or grease the baking pans and line each with a piece of parchment paper that overhangs on the sides (so that you can pull the bread out easily once it’s baked).
Use a pastry cutter or a large chef’s knife to chop the folded dough haphazardly into chunks (yes, this part will be messy!). Scoop the chunks of dough and pear into the prepared loaf pans, filling them each up to 2/3 of the way. Scrape up any remaining sauce and pears and pour them into the pans. Cover each pan lightly with plastic wrap and let rise 30 to 40 minutes, or until the dough rises above the top of the pan. Whisk together the egg and water and brush each loaf then place in the oven to bake for 45 minutes. Check the bread at 25 minutes and loosely tent each loaf with a piece of foil to prevent burning on the top edges.
Let the loaf cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then gently pull out using the parchment paper, and let cool completely. If desired, serve drizzled with a bit more warm dulce de leche.
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Quick Tip: You can try chocolate for another version of this recipe.
Thanks again to Always Order Dessert for this amazing recipe.
