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Irresistible Sweet Bread Recipe by Chef Shaun 🇹🇹 Foodie Nation

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Trinidadian sweet bread, also known as “Coconut Sweet Bread” or simply “Sweet Bread,” is a popular treat in Trinidad and Tobago, especially during the Christmas season. It’s a delicious, rich bread made with grated coconut, dried fruits, and spices.

Yield – One 9” Loaf.

Ingredients
Brown Sugar – 1 cup + ½ cup
Raisins – ¼ cup
Currants – ¼ cup
Chopped Cherries – 1/3 cup
Mixed Fruit – 1/3 cup + ½ cup
Mixed Essence – 1 tsp + ½ tbsp
Cinnamon Powder – ½ tsp + ½ tbsp
Grated Nutmeg – ½ tsp + ½ tsp
Grated Tonka Bean – ¼ tsp + ½ tsp
Warm Water – 6 oz + 1 cup
All Purpose Flour – 3 cups
Baking Powder – 1 tbsp
Grated Coconut – 1 cup
Unsalted Butter – 5 oz (room temp.)
Bay Leaf – 1

Method
Preheat your oven to 350F.
In a bowl, add 1 cup brown sugar, raisins, currants, cherries, 1/3 cup mixed fruits, 1 tsp mixed essence, ½ tsp cinnamon powder, ½ tsp nutmeg, ¼ tsp tonka bean & 6 oz of water.
Mix until sugar is dissolved, and all your ingredients are combined.
Set aside.
In another bowl, combine, flour, baking powder, coconut & butter.
Add your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients.
Mix to combine.
Transfer to greased loaf pan.
Top with 1/2 cup mixed fruit.
Bake at 350F for 1 hour to 1 hour.
For base add remaining sugar, mixed essence, cinnamon, nutmeg, tonka bean & bay leaf to a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil and allow to reduce by half.
Set aside.
Remove sweet bread from oven once fully cooked.
Let cool in pan for 5 to 10 minutes.
Remove from pan and allow to fully cool before slicing.

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33 Comments

  4. I slice of this sweet bread with my English tea would do me perfect Right now.
    In Jamaica we have similar called Easter bun but we don’t use coconut, I would rather the coconut in mine
    Thank you for sharing this amazing video ❤️

  21. Mix the flour mix and sugar mix with the fruits by hand or you gonna get lumps of dry flour in the sweetbread. Those white splotches are flour mix clumped together that weren’t broken up properly. The sugar he used is not sufficient to make it sweet enough, you have to taste your batter before putting it to bake to make sure it’s sweet and not slightly sweet.

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