With these bread recipes, which include everything from easy no-knead breads to the more challenging (and rewarding!) challah and chocolate babka, we’ve got your carb craving covered. And yes, we teach you how to make your own sourdough.
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No-Knead 5-Minute Artisan Bread
This no-knead 5-minute artisan bread show you how to make homemade bread in just minutes a day without fuss. Quick, easy, rustic, entirely doable even by novices, and the best loaf you'll ever bake.
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If sourdough bagels aren’t on your must-make list, add them immediately. They’re easier than you may think.
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Pain d’épi is essentially a baguette in the shape of a wheat shaft, a charming French tradition dating back centuries that’s surprisingly easy to make at home. Same terrific flavor as the classic. Different shape.
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This homemade sandwich bread, made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, is an easy and relatively quick way to make the best sliced white bread ever thanks to simple instructions and no-nonsense, give-it-to-me-straight, hand-holding advice. Perfect for novice bread bakers.
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These pretzel rolls taste are just like the real German pretzel deal—shiny, salty, perfectly burnished, and densely bread-y. They’re reminiscent of a soft pretzel but in a more versatile shape so you can smother with butter, stuff with your favorite sandwich fixings, or inhale straight off the baking sheet.
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Jim Lahey’s no-knead bread recipe turned traditional bread making upside down for all of us. Made with just flour, yeast, salt, and water, the bread is the fastest, easiest, and best you may ever make.
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This cinnamon-raisin swirl bread is a homemade loaf of awesomeness made with whole wheat and oat flours with brown sugar, cinnamon, and raisins swirled throughout. Unspeakably more satisfying than anything you can buy.
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Soft, vaguely sweet, and golden-yellow from the butter and egg, these simple buns are perfect for burgers (whether beef or plant-based), or any of your favorite sandwich fillings.
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The classic bagel is chewy inside with a firm, crisp crust. The step of boiling the unbaked bagels in molasses-infused water is what gives traditional bagels their taste and texture. If you've never had a fresh bagel, right out of the oven, you'll never go back to frozen or day-olds again.
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This no-knead whole-wheat bread from Jim Lahey is quick to make but as good as old-fashioned bread. And with the added benefit of whole wheat and being done in less than two hours.
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This multigrain bread, made with a mix of rye, barley, oat, and whole wheat flours along with milk and molasses, is a healthy yet irresistible loaf of homemade bread you’ll come back to again and again.
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This caramel monkey bread is a gooey sweet pull-apart cake made from blobs of brioche dough coated in a caramel sauce made with cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar. It's easy as can be to make from scratch in a loaf pan—and fun as heck to tease apart with your hands. It makes a great breakfast treat, snack, dessert, or even Christmas morning surprise.
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Kalamata olives lend this no-knead bread ample flavor while a long, slow rise brings it a bakery-quality crumb.
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This buttermilk sandwich bread is a classic recipe that turns out tender bread, perfect for toast, sandwiches, bread pudding, and beyond.
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Sourdough rye bread is essentially a rustic rye sourdough bread made from a starter that’s subtler and lovelier and more approachable in flavor than most deli rye breads.
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This Jewish rye bread is as authentic as it comes, without having to make a trip to the bakery. Made with rye flour, onion, and caraway, you'll also find yourself with a gorgeous starter that you'll be able to feed and use indefinitely.
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This sourdough bread is easy to make with only starter, bread flour, water, and salt, and the finished artisan loaf has a crunchy crust and tender crumb. Here’s how to make it.
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This brown soda bread is an authentic Irish classic and made with everyday ingredients including flour, oats, eggs, and buttermilk. The molasses is optional. We think of knowing how to make it as sorta like an Irish birthright. It’s authentic and traditional and quick and easy.
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Beer bread. If you’re not already familiar with it, yes, it’s a thing. And you can toss it together at the last minute from ingredients you probably already have on hand. No yeast required. So ridiculously easy. So incredibly satisfying.
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Chocolate babka fans, rest assured, this is not a lesser babka. Instead it’s practically oozing with chocolate and butter and homemade babka-y awesomeness.
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This milk rye bread, made with rye and bread flours along with milk and molasses and other pantry ingredients, has a subtle rye flavor and is slightly sweet. And it’s simple enough for novice bakers. Here’s how to make it.
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