Bake Yummy Bread in Just One Hour!
Oh, yeah, you can make this bread in an hour — promise.
I was given the recipe of all recipes to make super fast, easy bread, and I can’t wait to share it. This bread costs almost nothing, it’s fun to bake, and so much healthier than the store-bought bread spiked with high-fructose syrup.
Forget expensive bread machines: all you need is flour, rapid rise yeast, water, salt, olive oil, and voila — bread!
Landon and I went to a “make minestrone and bread” playdate a couple weeks ago, and Brad taught us how to make this delicious bread.
Here you can see L helping me make it the first time at home.
This is a really fun activity to do with kids, just be prepared for a lot of flour on your floors.
Let your child help, measure, taste, mix, knead and shape the bread. L wanted to shape the dough into these little balls — and why not?
Fast & Easy Bread Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour (you can use whole wheat, but it’s best to only substitute 1 cup with whole wheat)
- 2 tsp Rapid Rise yeast (jar of it in the baking isle)
- 1 tsp salt (fine sea salt is best)
- 1 cup warm water (I used a bit more)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Fast & Easy Bread Directions:
- Combine half of the flour and dry ingredients. Then mix in water and oil
- Mix in remaining flour
- Knead 10-15 minutes (I only did about 5)
- Shape as desired (round or long, 1 or 2 loaf) and let rest while preheating oven to 425 degrees
- Spray with water for crunchy crust and put into oven
- Bake at 425 for 15 minutes, then rest of the time (about 10 min.) at 350
Ta-da!
Warning: do not try Nutella on this.
Let me know what you think. Impress the family and bake this for a special occasion!
The bread is pretty dense, but I can’t get over how easy and cheap it is to make your own bread. I can’t wait to mess with the recipe a bit and add walnuts and raisins next.
I also got Brad’s Easy Bread recipe (involves 4 hours of resting time) and will try that out and report back.
Happy baking!
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Hello. I just found this recipe and tried it tonight. It was great! So easy and SUPER FAST!! I liked the flavor. I used extra virgin olive oil. You could definitely taste the olive oil. I was wondering if you can use it with regular oil (like canola). I think I will try it next time. Thank you SO MUCH!!
Hi Mike, glad you liked it! I would just try it, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Let me know how it turns out!
I have celiac. Do you think I could use Almond flour instead?
Hi Elizabeth,
I would just modify the recipe to your needs and see how it turns out. Can’t really go wrong with trying :)
Maybe I’m terribly uninformed but why can’t it be used with Nutella? I don’t use it very often but just curious.
That was just a joke — you’ll eat the whole loaf in one day with Nutella, it’s so yummy :)
The thing I like about this recipe is how quick it is to make which is a real attraction! This would be really tasty with some English cheddar cheese and some good old fashioned English pickle- have printed this off to give it a try!
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Love a fast bread recipe. I’ve just become a fan of sourdough and have been making this great no knead version http://www.breadtopia.com/sourdough-no-knead-method/ It’s fab. Will try yours if I can find fast rise yeast over here! F
An hour? I thought you had to spend all day making bread. We will try this directly. Thanks Dagmar.
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Thanks for the recipe. Courtesy of my cardiac issues, I have to change a lot of the ways I eat. I’ve added the RapidRise yeast to my shopping list. Who knows, maybe my twins will enjoy helping with it.
I’m so going to try this with the kids during Christmas break! Looks super easy, which is a huge plus!
Thank you for this! I cannot wait to try it. My house goes through A LOT of bread so this will be a big help.
Thanks for sharing the recipe. I bake my own bread, too. It is denser, but at least it tastes like bread. Anymore, unless you want to pay an arm and a leg, the bread you get at the store may as well be cake in a bag. Homemade is so much healthier, because you get to control the ingredients.