Festive Yeast Bread

Festive Yeast Bread

Does your bread machine sit there on your counter collecting dust because you just aren’t sure what to do with it? Or perhaps you’re bored making the same old, same old bread? I like the challenge of coming up with something different , and I think I succeeded with the raisin – nut loaf?

(Serves 12)

¾ cup water

¼ cup no – fat sour cream,

1 egg, or equivalent in egg substitute

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 ½ teaspoons table salt

1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon reduced – calories margarine

3 cups bread flour

½ cup SPLENDA Granular

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast

¾ cup seedless raisins

½ cup chopped walnuts

In a bread machine container, combine water, sour cream, egg vanilla extract , salt, and margarine. Add bread flour, SPLENDA, and cinnamon, make and indention on top of dry ingredients. Pour yeast into indention. Follow your bread machine instructions for a 1 ½ pound loaf. Add raisins and walnuts when “add Ingredient” signal bees. Continue following your machines instruction. Remove loaf from machine and place on a wire rack to cool Cut into 12 slices. Makes one (1 ½ - pound) loaf.

Each serving Equals

HE: 1 ½ Bread * ½ Fruit * ½ Fat * ¼ Protein *

9 Optional Calories

188 Calories * 4 gm Fat * 6 gm Protein *

32 gm Carbohydrate * 319 gm Sodium *

 19 gm Calcium * 2 gfm Fiber

DIABETIC ECCHNAGES: 1 ½ Starch * ½ Fruit * ½ Fat