Kitchenaid Honey Oatmeal Bread Recipes

KITCHENAID HONEY OATMEAL BREAD

Steps:

• Place water, honey, and margarine in small saucepan.
• Heat over low heat until mixture is very warm (120-130°F).
• Place 5 cups flour, oats, salt and yeast in mixer bowl.
• Mix with dough hook on speed 2 (low) about 15 seconds.
• Continue mixing, gradually adding warm water mixture and mix for 1 minute.
• Add eggs and mix 1 minute longer.
• Still on speed 2, add remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, and mix about 2 minutes, or until dough clings to hook and cleans side of bowl.
• Knead on speed 2 about 2 minutes longer.
• Place dough in greased bowl, turning to grease top.
• Cover.
• Let rise in warm place, free from draft, about 1 hour, or until doubled.
• Punch dough down and divide in half.
• Shape each half into a loaf.
• Place in greased 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch baking pan.
• Beat egg white and water together with a fork.
• Brush top of loaves with mixture.
• Sprinkle with oatmeal.
• Bake at 375°F for 40 minutes.
• Remove from pans immediately and cool on wire racks.

NO-KNEAD HONEY OATMEAL BREAD

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, heat 1 cup water to boiling. Stir in the oats, butter, honey and salt. Let stand until mixture cools to 110°-115°, stirring occasionally. Heat remaining water to 110°-115°. , In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the egg, oat mixture and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky). Do not knead. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch down dough; divide evenly between 2 greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Smooth tops of loaves. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, 35-40 minutes. Using a sharp knife, make a shallow slash down the center of each loaf. , Bake at 375° until golden brown, 40-45 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. If desired, brush with melted butter.

HONEY OATMEAL BREAD

Steps:

• Put oats, honey, salt, and butter (if using) into a large bowl. Pour boiling water over and let sit till barely warm.
• Add yeast and flour, mixing well.
• Turn out onto floured counter and knead for 5 minutes. Add flour as necessary because this can be a sticky dough due to the honey and oats.
• Put dough back into bowl, cover with a cloth, and let rise for 1 hour.
• Turn dough out onto floured counter, punch down, divide into 2 loaves.
• Place loaves on a lightly greased cookie sheet (or 1/2 sheet pan), cover with cloth again and let rise for 45 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees, brush loaves with milk and sprinkle with oats (if desired), and bake for 35 minutes.

FLUFFY, LIGHT HONEY OATMEAL BREAD

Steps:

• 1. In bowl of a stand mixer, combine oats, flour, yeast and salt. In a 2 cup measuring cup, warm milk in microwave until hot, but NOT boiling. Add butter. Stir to melt. Stir in lukewarm water and honey. ( I slightly warmed my honey to make it easier to pour.)
• 2. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Mix with dough hook until incorporated, scraping sides of bowl if necessary. On setting 2 of a KitchenAid mixer, knead for 5 minutes. If dough climbs the dough hook excessively, add flour 1 TB. at a time until dough cleans sides and bottom of bowl. You want it to be slightly sticky, not gooey. It's ok if it climbs the hook, as long as the dough cleans the sides and bottom of the bowl. (You want it to be a little sticky to the touch because the dough will pick up more flour later when you shape your loaves.)
• 3. Place dough in buttered bowl, turning once to coat. Cover loosely with sprayed saran wrap. Place in a warm, draft-free area until doubled in size. (About an hour... depends on temp.) I like to turn my oven on to 200 degrees and place the covered bowl on a hot pad on top of the stove.
• 4. When doubled, dust counter lightly with flour, 2-3 TB. should do. Punch your beautiful, fluffy dough down, then fold in half 2-3 times, pressing out the air bubbles. Divide dough in half and form loaves. (If your new to bread making, take a minute to learn "how to shape bread loaves" online. There are some great YouTube videos as well that give great tips. It's a really important step for beautiful looking loaves.) Place in two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 buttered or sprayed loaf pans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859Wn3RIJrI
• 5. Lightly grease top of loaves with a little very soft butter and cover loosely with sprayed saran wrap. Let rise until loaf is 1-1 1/2 " above pan. Rising too much will produce a very airy bread that won't slice well. Rising too little, will produce a dense, heavy loaf. Again, somewhere around 45-60 minutes, depending on the temp of your kitchen.
• 6. When 1-1 1/2" above pan, bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Watch closely since every oven is different. To know if it's done, I remove one of the loaves from the oven and tilt it into my hot pad covered hand. Just tilt it, don't remove it from the pan. Look at the bottom. If it's a nice golden brown, it's ready. If it's still pale-looking, return it to the oven for a few minutes and repeat. (If you take it out when it's not golden, it will not be sturdy enough to hold the bread up when you cool on wire racks.)
• 7. When the bottom is a golden brown, remove immediately from pans and cool completely on wire racks. Don't cut for a few hours, or you won't get nice slices. (Sometimes, I even wait until the next day.) Brush tops of loaves with a little melted butter. Enjoy!

HONEY OAT BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in breadmaker per your manufacturer's instructions.
• You can replace 2 cups white bread flour with 2 cups whole wheat flour but include 1 tbsp vital wheat gluten (the original recipe suggested this).
• Makes a moist, sweet loaf.
• NOTE: cook time is for the basic/white cycle (medium crust; 1½ lb loaf) using a BreadmanPlus bread machine; your machine may differ.