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Cherry-filled Bread Ring

A quick bread ring filled with toasted almonds, dried cherries, honey, orange juice, and spices.

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Why it works: Flour and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cherry-filled Bread Ring

Time30 to 40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. With an electric mixer at low speed, blend in butter.

  2. In a small bowl, mix eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Add to flour mixture and beat just until blended. Gather dough into a ball, dust with flour, flatten into disk and wrap well. Refrigerate overnight.

Make the filling

  1. Filling: In a food processor, combine all ingredients, except egg white, and process until coarsely chopped and blended. Cover and let sit overnight at room temperature.

Shape and decorate

  1. Spoon filling in a 2-inch wide strip lengthwise down center of dough. Lift plastic wrap at one long edge and fold dough over half of filling. Fold the other side over filling and press edges together to seal. Invert seam-side down onto prepared baking sheet; remove plastic. Pinch the two ends together to form a ring.

  2. With sharp knife or small cookie cutter, cut out reserved trimmings in leaf shapes. Brush bread ring with egg white and decorate with cut out dough. Brush with egg white again.

Bake and cool

  1. Bake until lightly golden, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes on baking sheet. Transfer to wire rack and let cool completely.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1185Calories
31 gProtein
41 gFat
178 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Milk + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the dough that holds the filling and ring shape.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the dough rises and becomes light.
Eggs
Add structure, binding and richness to the dough.
Butter
Adds fat that tenderizes the dough and enriches its flavor.
Honey
Adds sweetness and moisture, and helps the crust brown.
Dried cherries
Provide concentrated sweetness, tartness and a chewy texture in the filling.

The step that matters

Sealing the filled dough. The edges must be pressed firmly together and the ring pinched closed. If the seam is weak, the sticky, moist filling can leak out and burn on the baking sheet during baking.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, egg, milk, almond, honey):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, butter, egg, milk, almond, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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