Cinnamon Buns!

A pan of cinnamon rolls | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Cinnamon Buns from The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking: mix the brioche dough (using a Scale and a Danish Dough Whisk), roll it out, make the filling, and bake. Click here for the Cinnamon Buns Dough Recipe. You can do the overnight rise… See below for details.

Roll out the dough, put the filling on…

Rolling cinnamon buns | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

roll it up into a log.

Roll of cinnamon bun dough | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Cut the log into individual rolls. Cinnamon buns on a sheet pan before baking | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Put the rolls on a baking sheet prepared with parchment, you can also use a Silicone Baking Mat, covered them with plastic wrap, stuck them in the refrigerator to rise overnight, or do a ninety-minute rise at room temperature.

Preheat the oven to 350°F,

Cinnamon buns after an overnight rise | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

…and bake them for about 30 minutes.

As they bake, make the icing, and spread the icing over the rolls while still a bit warm, so it melts all over.

A pan of cinnamon buns | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Two pans of cinnamon rolls | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

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Fifteen Years of Thanksgiving Recipes: Breads for the Holiday

I’ve already started planning for Thursday’s baking, and looking back over all the old recipes here on the website took me back to great times and great meals with family and friends going back to 2007 or so, when the blog began. Above is a favorite of mine, Thanksgiving Cranberry Corn Bread, but here are dozens more: Click here for the recipe list and links, and be sure to click on “Older Posts” when you get to the bottom of the page (eventually the pages start showing some non-Thanksgiving stuff). You’ll find dinner rolls, crock pot recipes, pumpkin swirl brioche, pull-apart buns, stuffing, German pumpkin seed rolls and much more.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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4th of July Berry Pizza on the Grill!

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There is nothing more American than grilling on the 4th of July, well, maybe a star spangled pizza is the most patriotic of all. This is a super fast pizza that is ideal for breakfast, which I just served my family this morning, or can be throw together at your holiday BBQ as dessert. I made the pizza in a small baking sheet, but you can make a larger one if you have a crowd to feed.

Happy 4th of July!

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Mardi Gras King Cake

Mardi Gras King Cake, named for the three kings who came to bring gifts to Jesus, is traditionally served during Mardi Gras in New Orleans and throughout the South. Not only is it decorated with the colors of the festival, but it also has a hidden trinket in the dough. I’ve used an almond, but in New Orleans bakers often use a ceramic or plastic doll to represent the baby Jesus. The person who gets the slice with the trinket is responsible for making the King Cake the following year.

There are many versions of this sweet bread, depending on the traditions of different families. Our version from Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day is made with Brioche dough which has nutmeg, cinnamon, and raisins added into it.  The dough can be Braided and/or formed into a Couronne (crown shape) as I have done here. Some bakers even use a cream cheese and praline filling, but we went with a more traditional filling.

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Instant Sourdough Brioche

I’ve used Red Star Yeast in my recipes since the very first book in 2007, so I was super intrigued when they introduced the Platinum Instant Sourdough Yeast. It’s the perfect entry into sourdough baking, if you don’t have the days to create a sour starter, nor the hours and hours to let each loaf rise. This yeast contains real sourdough starter, which is activated along with yeast, to create an instant loaf of real sourdough, without the wait. Here is the Brioche recipe from Holiday and Celebration Bread Book made with the Platinum Instant Sourdough. You can use this Super Fast Sourdough Brioche for anything you’d make with Brioche, but it has the extra depth of flavor you get from a sourdough starter. The strength of that flavor will increase as the dough rests and we found that the dough behaved best within the first 3 days of storing it in the refrigerator, after that we froze the dough to use later.

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White Bread Master Recipe from Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five

White Bread Master Recipe | Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

There are about one hundred recipes in all of our books, but we always start with a Master Recipe. It is our opportunity in each book to dive a little deeper into our super fast and simple method of bread baking. In Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day we started with a simple and nostalgic white bread master recipe. It can be the perfect school sandwich bread or the base of some pretty fancy holiday breads. If white bread is not your cup of tea (or loaf of bread) then try one of our enriched or whole grain breads from the new book. With dozens of doughs to choose from in the book, you will find many that suit your holiday needs.

If you are familiar with our dough and method, you may notice that the doughs in this new book are a bit drier than our previous ones. This is on purpose, since some of the more intricate loaves in this book would be more difficult to shape with a very wet dough. Since many of the doughs in the book are enriched (with butter, eggs, milk, etc) they only store in the refrigerator for about 5 days (you can freeze what is left). Because the dough is drier, we find it much easier to mix with a stand mixer, as opposed to a wooden spoon or even a Danish Dough Whisk. You can use those tools, but you’ll need to put some muscle into it, so the dough comes out nice and smooth and consistent.

This post is meant to provide a guide to baking the bread, but the book has tons more details and lots of tips and techniques for those who are just starting out with bread baking or our method in particular.  Read More

Holiday Star Bread

This fanciful holiday bread made it into our newest book, Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day, and it is one of the prettiest, easiest and most sensational breads to make for a family gathering or work party.

This Holiday Star Bread has been making the rounds all over social media, so I decided to try it with some of our no-knead Challah dough. I’m happy to report that it works quite well, and it is not that difficult to make. Most of the recipes online have the same directions for shaping the star, so I borrowed from those when practicing, but substituted pumpkin pie spice for the cinnamon just to change things up a bit. We also have a variation with jam, but Nutella or many other fillings would be fun, so if you are interested in playing around with recipe, there is room for your own interpretation. If you do end up making this bread and post on social media, tag #breadin5 so we can see your creations! You can also find us on Instagram at @breadin5.

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Heart Braid

Pink Heart Braid Bread for Valentine's Day | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The older I get, the less I am ‘into’ Valentine’s Day, but I have two little kids who still think it is an amazing holiday, so anything red, pink, and heart-shaped is welcomed into our home on February 14. I was scrolling through Instagram last week and came across this lovely heart-shaped challah, and then, remembering Zoe’s pink swirled bread and pink braid, I thought I could combine the two together for some celebration bread. I’m happy to report that it worked! The heart braid bread turned out pretty, and tasted delicious, too.

Pink Heart Braid Bread for Valentine's Day | Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

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10th Anniversary of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

How time flies when you are having fun baking bread. 10 years ago we published our first book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, and it’s been an exciting journey ever since. Our publisher took a chance on two unknown authors; a pastry chef and a physician with a crazy idea of how to change how people bake bread. The publisher printed 5000 copies, hedging their bets in case it didn’t sell, but they sold in a week. They printed another 5000 and those too sold right away. They did it again and again, thinking it would slow down, but it didn’t. Here we are 10 years later, a second edition, 5 other titles and 750,000 copies of our books sold. This is all because of you, our incredible readers and the inspiration for all of our books. You have been there with us and for us, and we want to thank you!

Our first edition of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day is no longer in print, but the second edition The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day is even better and we want to give you a copy. For a chance to win, please leave a comment here and we’ll pick 5 winners. You can also go to our Instagram page, like our page and tag two friends for another chance to win. We’ll be giving away 5 copies to our Instagram followers. Please see our giveaway policy. This contest is finished and winners were announced! Read More

Corrections to Holiday and Celebration Bread (2018)

In the Kindle version, the Stollen recipe omitted two items from the Ingredients list: Those are: 1/2 teaspoon of ground cardamom, and 1 1/2 cups (9 ounces or 255 grams) of mixed dried or candied fruit. The mixture could include raisins (golden or not), dried pineapple, dried apricots, dried cherries, and candied citrus peel, in whatever proportions you’d like.

Page 35, Volumes conversion chart: 1 teaspoon is equal to 1/6 ounce, not 1/3. Metric volume is correct.

Page 85, Ingredient chart, all-purpose flour should read 6 cups | 1 pound 14 ounces | 850 grams

Page 115, Conchas, yield: Should read “Makes 8 buns”

Page 153, Whole-Grain Challah Dough, Step 2 should read “Combine the water, honey, oil, vanilla, and eggs.”

Page 173, Chocolate-Raisin Babka Bundt, Step 1: says to add milk, but the ingredient lists says water. The recipe was developed with water, but the truth is, you can use either.  

Page 189, Truck Stop Cinnamon Rolls makes 4 rolls, not 8.

Page 225, Panettone, Step 5 should read “On baking day, grease a 6-inch panettone or brioche pan with butter.”

Page 249, Finnish Pulla, Step 9 omits using the walnuts we called for in the ingredients list on page 248. Step 9 should have ended with “Sprinkle with raw sugar (or regular granulated white sugar) and walnuts.”

Page 262, Saint Lucia Saffron Buns, Step 2 should read “… whisk together the bread flour with the potato flour.”

Page 275, Hot Cross Buns should include a yield statement at the top of the ingredients table: “Makes about 25 buns”

Page 286, Easter Raisin Bread (Mazanec), Step 2, in keeping with the ingredients list, should call for milk, not water, and read “Mix the yeast, salt, sugar, eggs, melted butter, extracts, and lemon zest with the milk in a…”