3 cherry cranberry loaf Recipes

all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, light brown sugar, coarsely chopped walnuts (can also use pecans, hazelnuts, or almonds), dried cherries and/or cranberries, dates and figs, pits removed and cut into quarters, dried apricots, cut into quarters, eggs, pure vanilla extract

butter (for the dish ), stale unsliced challah or 1 (1 lb) loaf brioche bread or 1 (1 lb) loaf other egg bread, dried cherries or 1/2 cup cranberries, semisweet chocolate or 7 oz bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces, heavy cream, half-and-half, unsalted butter, cut up, sugar, salt, eggs, ground cinnamon, mixed with sugar below, sugar (for sprinkling )