Name: Easy, healthy, homemade bread recipe to make with kids
Cook time: 25 min
Ingredients: 450 grams or 3 cups) of white bread flour; 150 grams or 1 cup of whole wheat flour.; 325 ml or 1 1/2 cups of warm milk; 1 tablespoon of dry yeast; 3 tbls of brown or raw sugar; 2 tablespoons of soft butter; Raisins, cinnamon, nuts, seeds, or chocolate chips. ((Optional))

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This simple homemade bread recipe is perfect for baking with kids. Most children truly enjoy making their own bread. Involving children in the kitchen is a wonderful way to teach them new skills, and it’s a missed opportunity if they don’t get to join in. While baking homemade bread might seem intimidating at first, it’s actually straightforward and offers a wholesome activity for the whole family. Not only is this recipe is healthy, but it’s also delicious. Children feel a real sense of accomplishment when they create and bake their own bread.

This easy bread dough recipe takes simple ingredients.

You can add raisins, nuts, seeds, chocolate chips, cinnamon or mixed spice to your breads.

This recipe is enough to make one large loaf, two medium loaves, four small loaves or make 12 mini ball breads.

Prepare the mood:

I like preparing the mood for baking. I like having the kitchen nice and tidy, with all the ingredients and cooking stuff on the table, ready to use. Before we start, I light a candle. You don’t need to worry about the mess; it will all be cleaned afterwards.

Instructions:

Ingredients:

450 grams or 3 cups of white bread flour
150 grams or 1 cup of whole wheat flour.
325 ml or 1 1/2 cups of warm milk
1 tablespoon of dry yeast
3 tbls of brown or raw sugar
2 tablespoons of soft butter
Raisins, cinnamon, nuts, chocolate chips, (Optional)

Sugar in a pot, flour in a pot, meassuring cup with butter, measuring cup, measuring spoon, a glass milk bottle.

Step 1:

Warm the milk.

Test the milk with your fingertip; it should feel comfortably warm—just above body temperature, but not so hot that you need to pull out your finger immediately.

A jug of milk pouring milk into a small pan

Step 2:

Place the warm milk in a bowl with one tablespoon of sugar and the yeast.

Mix them, cover with a wet cloth, a beeswax wrap, or plastic wrap, and leave in a warm spot for about 10-15 minutes, until bubbly.

You’ll notice the surface becoming foamy or forming bubbles—this shows the yeast is alive and working.

a bowl with milk, yeast and sugar, a spoonful of sugar, and a wooden spoon mixing the yeast and milk.

Step 3:

While you wait for the yeast to be ready, in a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and the remaining sugar.

A hand adding flour, sugar, and salt to a bowl, mixing the ingredients with two hands.

Step 4:

Add the soft butter. Using your hands, combine the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles sand.

a hand scooping butter from a measuring cup into a flour mix, and a hand mixing flour with butter.

Step 5:

When the yeast is ready, make a hole in the middle of the flour mixture and add the yeast.

A bowl with active yeast and pictures showing the yeast being poured into a flour mix.

Step 6:

Using your hands or a spoon, start mixing in a spiral from the centre of the hole, gradually expanding to the sides of the bowl to incorporate the dry ingredients

Step 7:

When you have a dough, knead the dough. The kneading process takes about 15 minutes by hand. You can use a stand mixer. However, when baking with children, I always prefer to do everything by hand, and you can always take turns with your children kneading the dough.

Bread dough, and hands kneading bread dough.

Step 8:

Leave the dough to rise at room temperature in a warm place for about 45 minutes to an hour, until it has doubled in size.

A ball of bread dough, a bowl cover with a cloth

While you wait, you can clean the kitchen table so it is ready for the next step. ( the best part for children!)

Prepare a greased loaf pan or a baking tray if you are making more than one bread.

Step 9:

When the bread dough has doubled in size, it is ready to shape.

Work on a floured surface. If you are making small loaves for each child, cut the dough into smaller portions and form a ball for each child.

A picture showing bread dough, a second picture showing the bread dough cut into four, four balls of dough, and children's hands holding bread dough balls.

Step 10:

And let the children get creative and work with the dough to make their own bread.

When ready, place in the prepared baking tray.

four pictures showing children shaping bread

Step 11:

Let it rise a second time while the oven heats.

Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Take the bread out and cool on a wire rack

Delicious, soft, freshly baked bread.

Four different pictures of freshly cooked bread.

Variations:

You can use different flours, like spelt, for this recipe.
As long as you use 600 grams of flour, you can also change the proportions. You can make it with 2 cups of white flour and 2 cups of whole wheat flour, or use three different flours, such as rye, whole wheat, and white flour.

I would love to know how your breads come out in the comments at the bottom of the post.

four balls of bread dough each hold by a childs hand

Easy, healthy, homemade bread recipe to make with kids

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This simple bread recipe is perfect for baking with kids. You can add raisins, nuts, seeds, chocolate chips, cinnamon or mixed spice to your breads. This recipe is enough to make one large loaf, two medium loaves, four small loaves or make 12 mini ball breads.

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Cook Time 25

Servings 4 small loafs

Equipment

1 small bowl
1 large Bowl
1 small saucepan
1 measuring cups and spoons

Ingredients

450 grams or 3 cups) of white bread flour
150 grams or 1 cup of whole wheat flour.
325 ml or 1 1/2 cups of warm milk
1 tablespoon of dry yeast
3 tbls of brown or raw sugar
2 tablespoons of soft butter
Raisins, cinnamon, nuts, seeds, or chocolate chips. (Optional)

Instructions

Warm the milk.
Test the milk with your fingertip; it should feel comfortably warm—just above body temperature, but not so hot that you need to pull out your finger immediately.
Place the warm milk in a bowl with one tablespoon of sugar and the yeast.
Mix them, cover with a wet cloth, a beeswax wrap, or plastic wrap, and leave in a warm spot for about 10-15 minutes, until bubbly.
You’ll notice the surface becoming foamy or forming bubbles—this shows the yeast is alive and working.
While you wait for the yeast to be ready, in a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and the remaining sugar.
Add the soft butter. Using your hands, combine the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles sand.
When the yeast is ready, make a hole in the middle of the flour mixture and add the yeast.
Using your hands or a spoon, start mixing in a spiral from the centre of the hole, gradually expanding to the sides of the bowl to incorporate the dry ingredients
When you have a dough, knead the dough. The kneading process takes about 15 minutes by hand. You can use a stand mixer. However, when baking with children, I always prefer to do everything by hand, and you can always take turns with your children kneading the dough.
Leave the dough to rise at room temperature in a warm place for about 45 minutes to an hour, until it has doubled in size.
When the bread dough has doubled in size, it is ready to shape.
Work on a floured surface. If you are making small loaves for each child, cut the dough into smaller portions and form a ball for each child.
And let the children get creative and work with the dough to make their own breads.
Let it rise a second time while the oven heats.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Take the bread out and cool on a wire rack

Notes

You can use different flours, like spelt, for this recipe.

As long as you use 600 grams of flour, you can also change the proportions. You can make it with 2 cups of white flour and 2 cups of whole wheat flour, or use three different flours, such as rye, whole wheat, and white flour.

Easy, healthy, homemade bread recipe to make with kids

Prepare the mood: