Best Sweet Bread Recipes for your Bread Machine

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If you think that sliced bread from your local bakery tastes good, then you should try out our sweet bread machine recipe which is easy to follow even for beginners.

Plus it takes minutes to prepare all the ingredients and let your awesome bread machine do all the work while you wait. You can also morph the bread dough into any shape you can imagine as long as you enjoy.

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We will be sharing about four sweet bread recipes for you to try them out on your own.

Best Buttery Sweet Bread Recipe

This recipe gives you buttery thick slices, perfect for any luscious snack or any other course.

Difficulty; Beginner

Yield; 1 pound loaf

Preparation time; 6 minutes

Ready In; 3 hours

Bake time; 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • Milk; 1/3 cup
  • Water; ¼ cup
  • Egg; 1
  • Butter; 3 tablespoons (You can use margarine as an alternative to butter)
  • Salt; ¾ teaspoon
  • Bread flour; 2 ¼ cups
  • Sugar; 3 tablespoons
  • Bread machine yeast; 1 ½ teaspoon

Directions

  • All the ingredients should be added in the bread pan according to the order in the bread machine manual.
  • The liquids go first while the salt and yeast go last.
  • Use the basic white or the sweet bread cycle setting
  • The crust color setting should be light or medium crust color

N/B This one pound bread recipe should only be used if your bread machine pan can hold a maximum of 10 cups of water. If your bread pan is smaller, you can halve the ingredients.

Nutritional Facts per Serving (1 Slice)

Calories; 201

Saturated fat; 3 grams

Sodium; 246 mg

Carbohydrates; 32 grams

Dietary fiber; 1 gram

Best Hawaiian Bread Machine Recipe

This recipe produces light sweet fluffy bread, and the good thing is that you can roll them into balls if you prefer rolls to sliced bread.

Difficulty; Beginner

Yield; 1 ½ pound loaf

Preparation Time; 5 minutes

Ready In; 3 hours

Bake Time; 25-30 minutes

Ingredients

  • Fine salt; ½ teaspoon
  • Eggs; 2 (Beaten)
  • Granulated sugar; 6 tablespoons
  • Unsalted butter; ½ stick
  • Milk; ½ cup
  • Pineapple juice; ½ cup
  • Bread Flour; 4 ½ cups
  • Bread machine yeast; 2 ½ teaspoon

Directions

  • In a separate saucepan, warm the pineapple juice, butter, and milk lightly, only to bring them to room temperature.
  • If you are using Packet yeast, mix it with a little warm water and let it foam for about 10 minutes before mixing with the other dry ingredients. If you are using bread machine yeast, skip this step.
  • These ingredients should remain on top of the bread pan; sugar, eggs, salt, flour, and yeast. You should slowly pour water into the mixture.
  • Press the sweet bread cycle setting in your bread machine.
  • The crust color setting should be light or medium depending on your preference.
  • After baking, remove bread and brush with melted butter after cooling if you so desire.

When making rolls

  • After mixing all the ingredients, press the dough cycle on the bread machine.
  • When the dough is ready, the bread machine will sound an alert, usually a beeping sound.
  • After the first rise, punch the dough and shape it into small rolls of your desired size. The recommended size should not be larger than a golf ball for them to fit well in a 9 by 13 inches pan.
  • Slightly grease the bread pan
  • Leave the rolls to rise till they are double in size, it takes an hour or less.
  • Brush the rolls with melted butter and bake them till the outer color changes to a golden brown. It takes roughly 20 minutes in oven temperatures of 190-200 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Remove the rolls and brush them with more butter if you desire.
  • Serve for any course.

Delicious Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Recipe

The cinnamon-sugar flavor hits the right buds in your tongue, plus plump, juicy and chewy raisins with butter for your breakfast.

Ingredients

  • Water; 1 cup
  • Softened butter; 2 tablespoons
  • Bread flour; 3 cups
  • Sugar; 3 tablespoons
  • Salt; 1 ½ teaspoon
  • Ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon
  • Bread machine yeast; 2 ½ teaspoons
  • Raisins; ¾ cup

Directions

  • All the ingredients should be placed in the bread pan according to the bread machine’s manual. Add all ingredients except raisins.
  • Most bread machines come with a fruit and nut dispenser, and it signals you add any fruit or nut. If your bread machine lacks the fruit and nut dispenser feature, you should add the raisins 6-8 minutes before the end of the last kneading cycle.
  • The bread cycle should be Basic/White
  • The crust color should be light or medium; it depends on your crust color preference.
  • After baking, remove the bread and cool it before serving.

Best Portuguese Sweet Bread Recipe

This bread is tasty, delicious and easily made with its roots in Portugal. You can try out this recipe for yourself and share the results.

Ingredients

  • Whole milk; 1 cup (It should be warmed to about 80 degrees for baking results)
  • Egg; 1
  • Margarine; 2 tablespoons
  • White sugar; 1/3 cup
  • Salt; ¾ teaspoon
  • Bread flour; 3 cups
  • Bread machine yeast; 1 ½ teaspoon (When using active dry yeast, use 2 ½ teaspoons)

Directions

  • Making the Portuguese sweet bread is easy; add the ingredients according to the bread machine’s manual.
  • The baking cycle setting should be sweet bread cycle
  • For the crust color, use light or medium color setting and you are done.
  • Wait till the smell of freshly baked bread fills your kitchen.
  • Cool and serve the bread sliced.

The preparation time is 5 minutes while the baking cycle takes 3 hours. The yield is 1 ½ pound loaf.

Finally

Everybody loves homemade bread because of its taste and freshness unlike store-bought bread, and also the aroma converts your kitchen into a bakery.

These recipes are easy to follow and they can be customized to include some of the healthier ingredients for people with special needs.

Just follow our lead and make these sweet bread recipes your go-to recipes, and you can share your experience with our sweet bread recipes in the comment section below. We wish you all the best in your baking.