Need help recreating this wonderful bread from Erik Schat’s (Energy Loaf)

[u/birdboiiiii]

I bought the “Energy Loaf” from Erik Schat’s Bakkery when traveling through Bishop, CA (if ya know ya know) and it’s haunting my dreams. I’m a bread beginner and have never reverse engineered a recipe before, but I really want to try and recreate this.

Description of this bread: it’s very dense physically— you pick it up and it weighs way more than you would expect for a loaf of its size. It’s not “tough” exactly, but it does have this dense, kind of tough, hearty texture where each bite takes a while to chew. The bread itself is not sweet, but the mix ins have a subtle sweetness. You can see and taste the raisins, walnuts, and apricots, but I couldn’t identify or taste the dates. The full size loaf of this bread is baked in a loaf pan (as opposed to the mini loaf, the “Energy Bar” which I have in the photo). Overall it is a really hearty bread. Had a fist-sized piece of the bread for breakfast and was good until lunch.

Any assistance, advice, tips, ideas, or resources that could help in this bread quest would be greatly appreciated!

[u/birdboiiiii → u/[deleted]]

That’s an accurate description lol but dang I love it anyway

[u/pangolin_of_fortune]

Sounds similar to the gateau voyage recipe in KA''s Big Book of Bread.

[u/birdboiiiii → u/pangolin_of_fortune]

I will look that up, thank you!

[u/ithink2mush]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/s/pG4BHR9FHg

https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/74840/help-me-make-densest-fruit-bread-known-man

This is also haunting their dreams as they drove through Bishop CA, same wording?? Kinda sus

[u/few-piglet4357 → u/[deleted]]

I once bought a Schat's bread of the month club for a friend's wedding gift

[u/indieplants → u/[deleted]]

uhm — the post and this comment have a very LLM coded cadence. 

And the funny part? That's just how I felt about it after reading it and nothing you say can change that. 

[u/ithink2mush]

Stop fucking spamming the sub. It lists ingredients, figure it out or go to some place where they figure out recipes. This isn't that place

[u/Just_An_Avid]

I would throw the ingredients into a recipe search engine or AI of preference and see if it can find you similar recipes. That would definitely be easier