This week, fed up with shop brought fruit loaves I have been experimenting with fruit loaf recipes based on a brioche/cholla base. I've ended up with something between fruit loaf and a hot cross bun mixture ie the best of all worlds. Still a bit of work to do with the spicing. This is a Panasonic job rather than anything manual.

That spot in the afternoon that use to be just tea now has some lovely fruit bread with far too much butter - and the same bread (toasted) now constitutes the midnight feast.