Cranberry Buns

Photo: flickr user alifayre

Ingredients

Dough:

teaspoon dry yeast

cup bread flour

1 cup whole wheat flour

teaspoon salt

cup dried figs minced or minced prunes

cup water plus

2 tablespoons water

1 cup apple juice, frozen concentrate thawed

cup fresh cranberries

1 cup raisins

vegetable cooking spray

Preparation

Yield: 12 buns

Add all ingredients for dough in order suggested by your bread machine and process on the dough cycle. Meanwhile, prepare topping. Bring apple juice to boil, and boil 5 minutes or until reduced by half. Add cranberries and raisins and remove from heat. Coat 12 muffin cups with vegetable spray. Divide the topping amoung the cups and let cool.

Preheat the oven to 350F. Remove dough from the machine and divide in 12 pieces. Roll each into a ball and place on top of the cranberry mixture.

Cover and let rise about 20 min. or til doubled. Bake 20 min., invert muffin tin onto a larg tray and cool at least 10 minutes.

*If figs are hard, pour boiling water oven them to soften and then drain well.

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