There is absolutely nothing more homey than the smell of fresh baked bread.
Nothing.
I have been making home made bread for years and years and years.
I have made it by hand.
I have made it in my KitchenAid
I have even made it in a bucket with a crank handle.
That was a nightmare, and I’ll never do it like that again!
But the best way I have found to knead dough is in a bread machine.
The texture is perfection.
And it was no different with today’s TWD pick of Raisin Swirl Bread that Susan of Food.Baby chose.
♥ I proofed it in my car because that is the best place for proofing dough in the summer.
♥ Because I didn’t have orange zest, I added an 1/8th tsp. orange emulsion
♥ Of course, I didn’t put raisins in my bread, because just like cookies and cakes, raisins do. not. belong. in bread.
This bread is fabulous.
It is taking all my one ounce of will power to not eat the entire loaf.
If you’d like the recipe, go check out Susan’s blog.
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That looks perfect! I love your comment about proofing bread in your car. I’d be afraid to do that here–I might end up baking it. =P
Ha, I made cinnamon rolls so I wouldn’t eat the entire loaf. Yours looks perfect.
Pretty bread. If I proofed bread in our car, it would bake. LOL
I think I’ll give this bread a try. I haven’t tried cocoa in my cinnamon bread before. I don’t like raisins in my bread either. The kids call raisins pox. So for the husband I make Cinnamon Pox Bread. 😀
The cocoa is very subtle.
I always put about a tbsp of cocoa in my cinnamon/sugar mixture for cinnamon toast.
The texture of your bread looks perfect! I’ll have to try proofing bread in my car.
Please explain the whole proofing in the car thing – do you just sit a covered bowl on the front seat? I’d be afraid of it over proofing all over the place 🙂
Since I made the dough in the bread machine, the first rise was already finished, so I shaped it, put it in the pan, covered it with a towel, and sent Superman out with it.
I set the timer for 40 minutes and it was good to go.
Your bread looks fabulous and those photos are amazing. Good work, good week.
I love making homemade bread, but proofing in the car – that’s a new one 🙂
My children would agree with you on the raisins. They won’t touch raisins in anything.
The car idea rocks. I will try that next time..thanks for the tip!!
I wondered how this would work in my bread machine. I think I’ll try that next time. Yours looks so wonderfully brown.
How do you people get your swirl to be so perfectly centered? lol. It looks great! Your loaf is absolutely flawless
proofing in the car- brilliant!
Looks wonderful. I’d love to try it. Skipped breakfast today. Ran out of time.
You’re the second person this week who proofs bread in the car. My oven has a proof setting, but I will remember the car idea for those really cool days here. Your loaf looks fabulous!
car proofing?? AMAZING! I proofed on our 3rd floor, in the bedroom, b/c it’s the hottest room in the house 🙂
I also make my dough in the breadmaker, then pull it out and proof it and cook it. It makes it way easier to make it by hand!
Your bread would definitely be baked if you proofed it in your care here in Georgia. I think we hit 100° here today. Your bread looks great without the raisins. I love using my bread machine. I have even made brioche in it. Nice photos with perfect swirls.
oops-I meant “car”
oh my gosh, I posted this week not only about the smell of bread-but how my mom baked it for the holidays..what I left OUT was the tangent story about the crank handle pot she made it in!! One year she was doing the dough and she let my brother stay home from school to help do the cranking!! LOL. She eventually got a Kitchen Aid, and a bread machine..and did not miss the churning of the dough via handle! LOL
Your bread looks amazing!! Wow…just superb!
I have been making bread for nigh onto 38 years and never thought of the car idea. I must give it a try. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks ?
Love homemade bread. Do you like emulsions? I’ve been tempted to buy some to try them out. Do you just use them like extracts?
Yes I do. I use less of the emulsion than an extract.
Breadman? Awesome! Yours is perfection with a cinnamon swirl!
Proofing in the car…never once have I seen this as an option, but now that you mention it, it sounds like a perfectly good option to me! Your bread looks fabulous…well, as fabulous as it can look without its raisins. I think I might have added extra, yep, might have. Shhhh….
Your bread in that last photo is absolutely gorgeous! I proofed mine in the garage as it’s nice and warm out there in the summer. Great job, even if you didn’t put in raisins. 🙂
Your bread looks amazing! I love the idea of proofing it in the car, too funny.
Ciao ! I love your post !! The car would be ok to bake it here ! Love
We will have to agree to disagree about raisins. Your swirl bread looks wonderful! If I proofed dough in my car, I’d need to set a timer so that I didn’t forget about it…that could be messy.
RAising dough in the car! Interesting. Mine is the laundry room. No AC there. When the arthritis acts up the bread dough cycle is the only answer.
Bread is BEAUTIFUL!!
Just LOOK at your bread! It is perfection!!!!
I ran out of flour and didn’t make mine. But I will!
Do you use a metal or glass pan????
Metal.
Oh, that looks very yummy! Makes me want to make some bread. Never thought of putting it in the car. I bet I have the perfect temp for that.
Leaving your bread to prove in the car? Genius idea! I loved this bread. I found it extremely difficult not to eat the whole loaf.
How warm would the interior of the car have to be for proofing? I never would have though of this.
I would say more than 80-90º.
I figured my car was about 110-120º inside and it did fine.
Your bread looks fabulous! Now I need to get a bread machine too!
I got mine free from FreeCycle.
wow–gorgeous! beautiful texture and perfect swirl. when i get to making this, i’ll probably leave out those raisins, too.
I’m with you on the bread machine. It’s the only way to go. It’s obvious you also know how roll up dough and put it in the pan for best results. Beautiful–just beautiful!
That is a fabulous swirl. And I love the idea of proofing in the car!
wow this looks perfect and I like your idea for proofing the bread in the car.