Glaze on fruit bread melts due to moisture seeping

How can we keep glaze from melting in fruit bread? The bread contains a lot of moist fruit whose moisture migrates to the surface, causing the glaze to melt.

1. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   Try adding some gum in your glaze like sodium carboxymethylcellulose from .0.1 to 0.3% .

2. Diana Hdez reply

   Do you put the glaze before going to the oven? At certain temperatures, the oven's temperature may remove the intimately linked water that exists in the glaze. Afterwards it will…

3. Wayne Van Nieuwenhuizen reply

   Barrier moisture migration can be aided by using a solution of gum Acacia. The moisture in fruit cake below will be prevented from going to glaze. Gum Acacia in sugar glaze can st…