Looking for easy bread recipes to keep you busy during self isolation? Here are the best easy bread recipes.
We decided to self-isolate at our cottage. Only a few weeks in did I realize that I didn’t have my kitchen aid with my dough hook for making dough. I also realized that my family eats a lot of bread! It doesn’t help that I have a teen who likes to eat three to four breakfasts a morning.
What’s a girl to do when the store is 40 minutes away and we’re supposed to be staying at home? This chick made a rule that if you wanted to eat carbs you had to make them. And we started making bread.
Here are the quick, easy and low kneading bread recipes we have fallen in love with.
Bagels
My son LOVES bagels. He can easily eat 2-3 in a morning. When he had to start making his own bread we had to find an easy recipe. A friend suggested Skinnytaste bagel recipe and the great thing is that if you are on weight watchers, it’s Weight Watchers friendly.
My only suggestion would be to double or triple the recipe. The recipe makes 4 bagels, but they don’t last long.
Baguette
This is probably the easiest recipe! Suz’s Easy French Baguette recipe is easy to use and best thing is there isn’t a big ‘rise’ time, so you can whip it up fairly quickly. My kids love it for making small sandwich buns. I can’t say how long the shelf life is after it’s made, because it never lasts more than a day or two.
One make ahead thing we have tried is making the baguettes and freezing them. When you need them, take them out and let them unfreeze in the fridge. Them just pop them in the over and bake as the recipe says.
Pizza Dough
This is a recipe some of my baker friends shared. The Pizza Sheet Pan recipe comes from Zoë & Jeff of Artisan Bread in Five.
You make a big batch of dough (no kneading!) and it can rest in your fridge for up to two weeks. To be honest, my fridge isn’t that big and I was worried about having room for it. That was soon set aside, when I realized how convenient and easy it was to always have pizza available when you have teens and kids in the house!
Photo credit: Suzanne Charbonneau
The recipe is called ‘sheet pan’ pizza, but we made a HUGE sheet pan and had lots left over for other nights. You can actually use the recipe for a bunch of other breads too. We used it to try and make a loaf of white, but would suggest using a pizza stone and making it a round country-style loaf. The Apple Cinnamon bread with this dough is amazing too!
Michele of Honest & Truly also has a great and easy pizza dough recipe, if you only want to make one serving.
Dinner Rolls
This recipe comes from a friend who bakes bread a LOT more than me! I was scared at first, but this recipe Tasty dinner roll recipe was easy. So easy in fact my kids are able to make it on their own. This one requires kneading for 5-10 minutes, but overall, it’s not too much work.
The best thing about this is that you can also make something called Bannock or in Newfoundland we call toutons. Basically, you take the bread and fry it in a pan with butter and then enjoy it with jam, molasses, maple syrup or whatever you want. It’s similar to a ‘Beaver Tail’, but denser.
Easy Sandwich Bread
For this one, I go back to one of my favorite chefs, Ricardo. His recipe for easy sandwich bread has been our favorite for years. I first found it out when I was watching his TV cooking show. In the show (which I tried to find, but couldn’t).
In the show, he warmed up a cup of water in the microwave. Then leave the loaf pans in the humid and warm microwave to rise. DO NOT TURN IT ON. Just let the heat and steam work it’s magic. It also helps cut down on the time to rise too.
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
This one is tasty! It comes from Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman. I was a fan of her well before she had a cooking show, a store (the Mercantile), offering lodge tours and her products in Walmarts and Targets across North America.
Her Cinnamon Raisin Bread recipe is easy and popular with the kids. If the loaf lasts past a day, I would suggest using it to make French toast with.
Burger Buns
We had ground meat, but no burger buns and in fact not even any bread. Thankfully my friend Sue came through with a recipe she loves. This King Arthur Burger Bun recipe.
Do you have any easy bread recipes to share? Let us know in the comments below.
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