Sweet Honey French Bread

I made it in my machine per the recipe and it did turn out a little small but it was perfect for two people and lasted for two days. The bread is a little dense for regular sandwiches but if you slice it a little thicker it makes perfect toast. Definitely a great bread recipe for toasted sandwiches or soup/salad.

Made it, love it, it’s a keeper!

Made it, love it, it’s a keeper!

I adore this bread. Simple ingredients that I always have on hand. I added 3/4 of a cup of diced pepperoni when the bread machine indicated to add ingredients after the first kneading cycle. Super for grilled cheese. Loved dunking this bread in tomato soup.

I don’t use a bread machine so I proof the yeast in the water, honey and sugar that I had warmed to 110º. If you are planning to use the dough hook on your KA to knead – don’t. The dough ball is so small that the hook doesn’t pick it up or at least mine didn’t. I manually kneaded it by hand and baked it at 350º for 25 minutes. The bread is very, very subtly sweet and the honey doesn’t come through as much as I had hoped although I added a tablepoon of honey, however I did not drizzle the honey while baking. It still was very good and makes a lovely little loaf of bread. We thought it was very good.

This is fantastic with the honey butter from this site!