Bread Recipes

Soft honey yeast rolls with a sweet butter-honey-sugar topping drizzled on before baking. No kneading required, just drop spoonfuls of sticky dough into the pan.

Greek Christmas bread (Christopsomo) made in a bread machine with whole wheat flour, ground cardamom, golden raisins, and walnuts. A fragrant, festive holiday loaf with warm spice.

Ham and Swiss cheese rolls stuffed with broccoli spears, topped with a tangy pineapple-horseradish sauce and pineapple slices. A retro microwave dinner ready in 30 minutes.

Hawaiian fruit bread with dates cooked in pineapple juice, honey, and nuts baked into a dense, moist loaf. A no-refined-sugar quick bread that slices better the next day.

Hearty pumpernickel bread machine loaf with rye flour, cornmeal, molasses, unsweetened chocolate, caraway seeds, and mashed potato. Deeply dark German-style rye.

Coiled honey almond twist bread made with basic sweet dough, topped with a buttery honey-almond glaze that caramelizes as it bakes. A pull-apart breakfast or brunch bread.

Laufabrauð (Icelandic snowflake bread): paper-thin rounds of dough decorated with intricate cut-outs, fried crispy in hot lard. A Christmas tradition from the Westfjords going back generations.

Irish whole wheat soda bread with buttermilk, no yeast, and no rising time. A rustic round loaf with a signature cross on top that bakes in under an hour.

Italian Christmas bread for the bread machine: an egg-rich, raisin-studded sweet loaf with an egg wash crust. A holiday panettone-style bake with minimal hands-on time.

Sourdough rye bread with caraway and poppy seeds, made from a homemade starter built over four days. Two round loaves with a tangy crumb and egg-washed crust.

Kouloures is a traditional Greek Easter bread, sweet yeast loaves brushed with egg yolk, scattered with sesame seeds, and crowned with red-dyed eggs symbolizing the resurrection.

If you love banana bread, you will enjoy this scrumptious low-fat version that is perfect for breakfast.

Orange marmalade nut bread with chopped pecans or walnuts and fresh orange zest. A citrusy quick bread served sliced with softened cream cheese.

Melt-in-your-mouth potato muffins: tender yeast-raised rolls with mashed potatoes folded in, brushed with butter and dusted with powdered sugar. An old-fashioned tearoom treat.

Homemade muffin mix with flour, baking powder, dry milk, salt, and shortening. A six-week pantry staple that replaces store-bought Bisquick for muffins, biscuits, and pancakes.

Whole wheat banana bread loaded with oats, peanuts, walnuts, raisins, prunes, and molasses. A nutrient-dense breakfast loaf packed with fiber, protein, and natural sweetness from fruit and brown sugar.