Yeast Recipes

Traditional New Year's portzelky cookies are pillowy fried dough studded with plump raisins, dusted with icing sugar for celebration breakfasts.

Dead-simple homemade bread with just 5 ingredients: flour, water, yeast, salt, and honey. No kneading required. Mix it, ignore it, bake it. Fresh bread for people who think they can't bake bread.

Make the rosemary and garlic olive oil in advance, which gives the oil enough time to marry all the herby and garlicky flavors. Brush the casserole dish and the surface of the dough with the rosemary and garlic infused oil, sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top before baking. It comes out cheesy, moist and tasty.

Garden herb bread machine loaf scented with chives, marjoram, thyme and basil. The taste of Thanksgiving stuffing in a sliceable yeasted bread, with sizing for small or large loaf machines.

Baked cinnamon applesauce doughnuts made with yeast dough and rolled in a cinnamon-sugar coating. Lower in fat than fried doughnuts with a tender, pillowy crumb.

Wholesome cracked wheat and carrot loaf with oat bran, brown sugar, and skim milk. A fiber-rich, lightly sweet homemade bread with a soft, golden crumb.

Caraway rye bread machine loaf with bread flour, all-purpose, and rye flour blend. Toasty caraway seeds throughout for that deli-counter flavor. Set it and walk away.

Traditional German Dampfnudeln: soft steamed yeast dumplings stuffed with prunes, drizzled with buttery poppy seed sauce. A cozy Bavarian dessert that's surprisingly simple to make.

Soft homemade dinner rolls: pillowy yeast rolls made the old-fashioned way with milk, water, and active dry yeast. Pull-apart soft, golden-topped, and worth every minute of the rise.

Yeasted coffee cake with a sour cream dough, sweet cream cheese filling rolled jelly-roll style, and vanilla glaze with sliced almonds. An overnight rise makes it brunch-ready.

Bread machine Italian cheese-potato bread with mashed potatoes, Monterey Jack, oregano, and eggs. Dense, savory, and loaded with flavor in every slice.

Hungarian Christmas bread (makos beigli-inspired loaf): a buttery, lemon-scented yeast bread with a sweet poppy seed and raisin filling. A bread-machine shortcut for the holidays.

Homemade sweet bread with eggs, milk, and sugar shaped into round loaves. A soft, golden yeast bread brushed with egg wash and lightly sugared on top.

A fragrant bread machine loaf with dried dill and parsley, olive oil, and powdered milk for a soft crumb. Just load the ingredients and let the machine do the work. Incredible toasted with butter.

This decadent bread with a cinnamon taste is perfect in the morning. Can be served plain or toasted.

Food processor yeast bread made with cottage cheese, dill weed, and minced onions bakes into a round loaf with soft texture and savory herb flavor in just over an hour.