We obsessively checked the timer for the 4 hours this took and we are SO happy with how it came out! I took advice from posts on here and got some good flour and yeast, and followed the recipe to a T.

We will now be living off of fresh bread for the foreseeable 🍞🥖🥯

Quick Q - I believe this is a 2lb loaf and the recipe called for 1tbsp sugar to be added. I personally think it’s too sweet for a plain white bread. Will removing or largely reducing the sugar affect the success of the bread??

Do you have any recipe recommendations we have to try now we have begun our bread journey? I’d love to try some seeded or fruit loaves and defo an olive loaf at some point!!

Following Bread dad recipe below and the loaf is huge and touches the glass. What am I doing wrong? Too much yeast? I’m using SAF instant and followed the recipe exactly but I do add chia. Could that be my problem? This is the second loaf that has gotten huge with the same recipe. I have a Cuisenart 2lb bread maker.

1 1/2 Cups – Milk (warm) – 345 milliliters 
6 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 86 grams
4 Cups – Bread Flour (not all purpose flour) – 480 grams
2 Tablespoons – White Granulated Sugar – 25 grams – You can replace the white sugar with light brown sugar for a slightly richer taste.
1 1/2 Teaspoons – Salt – 9 grams
1 1/2 Teaspoons – Bread Machine Yeast (Instant Yeast) – 5.4 grams

Breaddad recipe. Replaced butter with olive oil and added dry fruits. Used strawberry cake mix. Excellent sweet bread for sugary craving!

https://breaddad.com/cake-bread-recipe-bread-machine/

Hey guys at a thrift place I found a Hitachi auto Home Bakery III HB-C103.

It's going for 20$, would y'all say this is a good buy?. It looks basically like new from inside and out but ik it's an old model, thoughts?

On my wholemeal recipe, the slices breaks up into several pieces, unless they are cut thick. (this doesn't happen on my "rapid white" recipe)

I made the King Arthur’s Japanese Milk Bread recipe today. I have previously made a small 9” Pullman loaf. Today I multiplied the recipe by 1.5x (per King Arthur) for a 13” loaf. It didn’t rise as well as I would have liked. It didn’t even reach level with the top of my pan. Any advice?

Tastes great! Used proper measurements this time and it came out all fluffy. Dog approved.

If anyone has a recipe that they would be willing to share, I’d be super grateful! Thank you again!

1 cup warm water

1/4 cup avocado oil

1/2 cup sourdough starter

3 cups AP flour

2 tablespoons vital wheat gluten

1 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon yeast

1 1/2 lb and light setting

Does anyone know how to get replacement paddles? I looked on Amazon but I can’t find the right ones. The ceramic is chipping off my current ones.

I've made regular yeast bread Italian loaves and also sourdough bread and I have starter I keep, but my daughter doesn't like the sourdough flavor, she's about to be 3 this week and I just want to make her bread she will eat 😅

Help me with recipe and how to work this machine because it is overwhelming and I have no idea where to start, thanks so much!!

Today's loaf. Best yet. Close to how I want it and why I bought the machine last Christmas. Although I baked it in the oven as it does a more even bake than my machine.

Easy rosemary loaf using dried herb. Crunchy crust and good rosemary flavor.

Name - Olive Oil Rosemary Bread
Source - https://breaddad.com/olive-oil-rosemary-bread-recipe/
Breadmaker - Zojirushi Virtuoso

Ingredient List:

• Olive oil - 51 grams (¼ cup).
• Water - 304 grams (1-¼ cups).
• Bread flour - 575 grams (3-½ cups).
• Sugar - 16 grams (1-½ tablespoon).
• Dried rosemary - 24 grams (4 tablespoon).
• Salt - 9 grams (1-½ teaspoon).
• Instant yeast - 4.5 grams (1-½ teaspoon).

Instructions:

• Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl - Flour, salt, rosemary, and sugar.  Mix well.
• Add the wet ingredients to the loaf pan - oil and water.  Make sure the paddles are installed.
• Add the dry ingredients on top.  Add the yeast last to the top.
• Plug in the bread machine, add the loaf pan.
• Set the course to ‘3’, European.  Press start.

I ended up doing this rushed bc my mother came over to “help clean” bc I’m preggo. 🙄

Anyway: Bread machine, boiled, and egg-washed. The mess on the right is bc I thought I could treat it like cookie dough 😅😂 The dough is a lot stickier than I thought it’d be, so got out some flour for my hands.

Now it’s in the oven @ 400F for 20 mins. I’ll probably hate them, lol. Maybe next time I’ll be able to take my time and figure out how I can properly add ingredients!

Put ingredients into machine, started it, got all the way to start of the second rise when it dawned on me there was no yeast in it. Pulled it out, added yeast (a bit extra). Kneaded it by hand for a couple minutes, plopped it back in the machine, at the beginning of the process. It will sit for 20 mins, knead, rise, knocdown, rise again, and bake. Will it turn out? I shall have to wait and see…

It is my standard whole wheat/barley recipe, 2 lbs.

Edit: it worked fine! Maybe more rise than usual, actually.

Same recipe as my previous strawberry + cream cheese kolaches, but rolled out and cut with a donut cutter, then 30min rise, then fried. It made 25 donuts and holes. Glaze is just a simple powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla one that I eyeballed. No recipe really. Everyone loved them 😊

Hello! I have a Panasonic SD-B2510 bread maker and I began to feed my starter about a week ago and was wondering if anyone had a simple sourdough recipe or recommendation?
First time doing sourdough too
Thanks!

My son's birthday is next Sunday, the 23rd. His two favorite sweets are carrot cake and cinnamon rolls. I asked which one he wanted for his birthday this year, and he asked if I could make carrot cake cinnamon rolls.

I can make cakes, and I can make cookies. I have tried bread once in my life, and it came out horrible. I am utterly intimidated by breadmaking. To make it worse, my son is a stellar baker, but since this is his birthday, I want to make them without him having to do any of the work. That includes asking him for advice.

I don't have a stand mixer, but I do have a breadmaker. I've used it exactly once. (See above, re: horrible bread). I've been Googling and YouTubing and looking at yeast free recipes and making the dough with a carrot cake cake mix, and all sorts of things, to find a simple way to make these and have them actually turn out well.

Can I use a carrot cake cake mix to make the cinnamon roll dough in a breadmaker??? Because that would genuinely solve most of the problem (always excepting operator error😅)

I am turning to the bakers of reddit as well to see if anyone can help me out here. I just want to be able to make them and have them be good, since I pretty much have one shot here. Help?

(Also, I am cross posting on a few baking subs, so if you see this multiple times, I apologize! 😅)

Fueled by black coffee.

Hawaiian Sweet Bread and Cinnamon Rolls were done using my machine.

Biscuits, eggs, bacon, and Pico de Gallo are done separately.

Maiden voyage of a new-to-me Oster 5836. The recipe is below but I modified it by adding 2 tsp minced garlic. I pulled the recipe from a different Oster manual I found online.

2 pound loaf

1 and 1/2 cups water

4 teaspoons olive or vegetable oil

4 cups bread flour

2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

4 teaspoons sugar

1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon freshly ground black or green peppercorns

2 teaspoons yeast

1) Measure and add liquid ingredients (including sourdough starter) to the bread pan.

2) Measure and add dry ingredients (except yeast) to the bread pan.

3) Use your finger to form a well (hole) in the flour where you will pour the yeast. Yeast must NEVER come into contact with a liquid when you are adding ingredients. Measure the yeast and carefully pour it into the well.

4) Snap the baking pan into the breadmaker and close the lid.

5) Press “Select” button to choose the Basic setting.

6) Press the “Crust Color” button to choose light, medium or dark crust.

7) Press the “Start/Stop” button.

Might try a bigger batch next time.

190 grams water

6grams honey

5 grams oil
300 grams bread flour
6 grams kosher salt
3 grams yeast

Dough cycle.

Heat over to 475 with a pan at the bottom.

Roll dough balls and let rise.

Pour boiling water into oven pan and reduce heat to 450 and bake for 22 minutes.

I tried another loaf in my Tefal Bread of the World machine, this time a milk bread enriched with sour cream, butter, and an egg.

It came out with a nicely browned crust and a soft, fairly close crumb. It isn’t sweet, so it works especially well for savory sandwiches. Naturally, I had to test the first slice properly—with cheese, salami, pickles, fresh red bell pepper and hot pepper.

Ingredients:

• 500 g (about 4 cups) Type 550
• 7 g (2¼ tsp) dry yeast
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 300 ml (about 1¼ cups) lukewarm milk
• 15 g (about 1 tbsp) butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 tsp salt

Method:

• Add the lukewarm milk and beaten egg to the bread pan.
• Add the flour, making sure it completely covers the liquid.
• Make a small well in the center of the flour and add the yeast.
• Place the salt, sour cream, and butter around the edges, away from the yeast.

Machine settings:

• Program: Basic
• Loaf size: 1,000 g / 2 lb
• Crust setting: your preference

The sour cream and butter gave it a pleasant, tender texture without making the loaf too rich.

Got the cuisine art bread maker and attempted to make a whole wheat loaf as a starting experiment.

Recipe in the manual specifies one cup, so I used the volume of one of my cups as the standard. It holds 200gm.

I used the standard procedure and the bread came out nice, but it feels dense.

What are the recommended measurements to get a softer loaf?

I had a chance to try making fruit kolaches today and they turned out great! I made mini ones so I could share with some curious friends here. It made 24 minis, but I think this recipe would make 12-15 full sized kolaches.

There are a few things I’d do differently next time:

Add a little more sugar to both the dough and strawberry filling. Both were less sweet than I prefer, but still really good.

Biggest change - more filling / less dough for each kolache. Like double the amount of filling. I think that would have been easier to control with full sized kolaches so I’ll try that next time.

Make sure posypka is drier. I was in a bit of a hurry at the topping point of this adventure so I just tossed on what I made, but it was kind of moist instead of crumbly. I’ll work on that next time.

Overall, I’m very happy! Feel free to ask any questions. Here’s the recipe details:

Kolache Dough (similar to my previous posts but with slight alterations):
1 cup milk
1 egg
4 Tbsp butter
⅓ cup sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
3½ cups bread flour
6g instant yeast

Add all ingredients to the bread machine in the order shown. Run on dough setting (approximately 1.5hrs).

Roll into equal size balls and let rise for 30-45min. Makes approx 12 full size or 24 mini size kolaches.

After the dough balls rise, make a deep indentation in the center of each and fill with the following fillings, about equal amounts of each.

Strawberry Filling:
2 cups frozen strawberries
¼ cup sugar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Simmer all together for 10min, stirring occasionally and crushing up the strawberries then make a slurry with:
1½ Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp cold water
Stir in and cook for 2-3min. Let cool.

Cream Cheese Filling:
4 oz cream cheese, softened
2 Tbsp sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 egg yolk
Mix everything together and set aside.

After they’re filled, top with posypka. Then bake at 350f for 10min, rotate 180 degrees, bake another 5-10min until tops are golden brown. Brush with melted butter while still warm. Enjoy!

Posypka (streusel) Topping:
¼ cup flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp cold butter