Welcome summer season with freshly baked loaves stuffed with your favourite stone fruit and a thick drizzle of white chocolate ganache. The yogurt provides moisture and just a little tangy taste in every chunk.
Stone Fruit Yogurt Bread
- 2 cups (400 grams) granulated sugar
- 1½ cups (360 grams) Greek yogurt, room temperature
- 1 cup (224 grams) vegetable oil
- Four massive eggs (200 grams), room temperature
- 2 tablespoons (6 grams) lemon zest
- Three tablespoons (45 grams) contemporary lemon juice
- 1½ teaspoons (6 grams) vanilla extract
- Three cups (375 grams) all-purpose flour
- Four teaspoons (20 grams) baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons (4.5 grams) kosher salt
- 1 cup (225 grams) chopped peeled stone fruit, akin to peaches or nectarines
- 1 cup (170 grams) white chocolate morsels
- White Chocolate Ganache (recipe follows)
- Preheat oven to 325°F (170°C). Butter 2 (8×4-inch) loaf pans.
- In a big bowl, beat sugar, yogurt, oil, eggs, lemon zest and juice, and vanilla at medium velocity with a hand mixer till nicely mixed. Add flour, baking powder, and salt, stirring simply till moistened. Fold in stone fruit and white chocolate morsels. Divide batter between ready pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Loosely cowl with foil, and bake till a wood decide inserted in middle comes out clear, 45 to 50 minutes extra. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Take away from pans, and let cool fully on a wire rack. Pour White Chocolate Ganache over cooled loaves.
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White Chocolate Ganache
- ½ cup (120 grams) heavy whipping cream
- ⅔ cup (113 grams) chopped white chocolate morsels
- 1 teaspoon (1 gram) lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons (10 grams) contemporary lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon (14 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave cream on medium-high in 15-second intervals, stirring between every, till it begins to steam. Add chocolate morsels and lemon zest and juice, whisking till clean. Add butter, and whisk till mixed. Use instantly.
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