Christmas Panetone

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year (excluding the cold). I love spending time with my family and enjoying delicious food. But Every year there is one thing I cant wait to sink my teeth into... Panetone y Chocolate!

This year my wonderful grandma and grandpa decided to teach me how to make it. We had so much fun and it tasted better than the store bought kind. Getting this new recipe and eating this classic christmas bread a month early was the best christmas present ever!!!

Paneton de Navidad

8 C flour

3/4 C butter

2 C sugar

1 C milk

2 C anis

1 tsp salt

8 eggs

2 packets yeast

2 1/2 tsp ecencia de paneton

2 1/2 tsp ecencia de chirimolla

1 tsp agua de azar

1 egg yolk

3/4 C raisins

3/4 C dried colored fruit

yellow food coloring

Put 1 Tb flour, 1 pkg yeast, 3 tb water in a cup and cover and let it sit. Boil 1 cup water, 1 Tb Anis then let it cool down. Put flour in a big bowl and put a hole in the middle and add salt, butter, eggs, sugar, anis, milk, yeast, flavoring, and coloring. Knead by hand until soft add in orange zest, raisins, and fruit. Place in a greased can lined with greased parchment paper covering the entire interior. Place can in over with no head and let rise of about 4 hours. Take out and let it keep rising while preheating the over to 375 F for 30-40 min until top is dark brown.

*In this picture the top looks burnt in reality we accidentally put egg yolks on the top which made it look this way. The top is supposed to be a dark brown.