Panettone Italian Christmas Bread

Authentic traditional Italian Christmas bread, studded with dried fruit and candied peel, fragrant, fluffy and festive. It's yeasted sweet dough, admittedly requires a bit of an effort and a few hours mixing and waiting but it's the best thing you can bake for Christmas. It keeps surprisingly well and when a few days' old it is amazing toasted and buttered. Once you've mastered the technique, it makes the best ever Christmas gift. And it's the best thing ever to have for Christmas Day breakfast!