Vanilla Spice Bread

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This vanilla spice bread is made in a bread machine. Try it to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's amazing. It uses the machine's dough cycle but is baked in the oven.

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Prep Time:
10 mins
Cook Time:
35 mins
Additional Time:
2 hrs 35 mins
Total Time:
3 hrs 20 mins
Servings:
6
Yield:
1 (9x5-inch) loaf
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Ingredients

Original recipe (1X) yields 6 servings

  • ¾ cup water

  • ½ cup milk

  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

  • ¼ cup dark brown sugar

  • 2 tablespoons white sugar

  • teaspoon ground cardamom

  • ¼ teaspoon ground coriander

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

  • 1 ¼ teaspoons salt

  • 3 cups high-gluten bread flour

  • 1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast

Directions

  1. Place water, milk, vanilla, brown sugar, white sugar, cardamom, coriander, vegetable oil, and salt into the pan of a bread machine in that order. Pour flour on top and sprinkle with yeast. Set the bread machine to the Dough cycle; turn on the machine.

  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

  3. When the Dough cycle is complete, remove dough from the machine, punch down if necessary, form into a loaf, and place into the prepared loaf pan, seam-side down. Cover and let rise until doubled, 20 to 30 minutes.

  4. Bake in the preheated oven until loaf is golden brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Cook's Notes

We've been making a lot of this since I first invented it about a year ago. We experimented a lot with multiple parameters, and we found the following to be very important:

Use dark brown sugar. Light brown sugar isn't as good.

You can use oil or butter, but there's no discernible difference and since oil is cheaper, we use oil.

High-gluten flour makes for a more satisfying loaf, but you can use normal flour. Or add a little extra gluten yourself.

Finally, for a softer loaf, replace all the water with milk (for a final milk volume of 1 1/4 cups milk).

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

108 Calories
5g Fat
15g Carbs
1g Protein
Nutrition Facts
Servings Per Recipe 6
Calories 108
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 5g 6%
Saturated Fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 2mg 1%
Sodium 497mg 22%
Total Carbohydrate 15g 5%
Dietary Fiber 0g 1%
Total Sugars 14g
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin C 0mg 0%
Calcium 34mg 3%
Iron 0mg 2%
Potassium 65mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

** Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients. Amount is based on available nutrient data.

(-) Information is not currently available for this nutrient. If you are following a medically restrictive diet, please consult your doctor or registered dietitian before preparing this recipe for personal consumption.

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