Try These Delicious Sweet Bread Recipes

Can you think of anything better than a kitchen filled with the smell of freshly baked bread? And yet fewer and fewer people bake their own bread, whether it’s sweet bread or delicious whole-wheat bread with seeds.

However, it is a lot easier than you might think and the result is of course astonishing and delicious.

Below we share some tips and recipes that everyone will love for baking sweet bread at home.

Homemade sweet bread with pieces of chocolate

Ingredients

• A pinch of salt
• 3 medium eggs (150 g)

• 3 tablespoons sugar (30 g)
• Pieces of cooking chocolate (to taste)
• 50 grams of butter
• 200 ml milk
• 500 grams of flour
• 1 ½ tablespoon fresh yeast (15 g)

Preparation

• Mix the fresh yeast into the flour using your fingertips.
• Then add the butter, which should be at room temperature, and mix it in with your fingers.
• Then add the sugar, salt, eggs and warm milk.
• Knead the dough with your hands until it is elastic and no longer sticks to your fingers.
• Then add the pieces of chocolate and knead the dough a little more, until the chocolate is well distributed throughout the dough.
• Then make it into a ball. Place this ball in a deep bowl and cover it with a tea towel. Let the dough rise for about 40 minutes in a warm, draft-free place.

• After this time has passed, divide the dough into small portions and give it the desired shape: small balls or small elongated buns.
• Bake the rolls in an oven preheated to 180 º C for about 20 minutes.

Homemade braided sweet bread

This is perhaps the most classic sweet bread recipe you can use. It is especially delicious when eaten warm, fresh from the oven, with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate.

Ingredients

• 500 grams of flour
• A pinch of salt
• 2 medium eggs (100 g)

• 7 tablespoons of butter (70 g)
• A few drops of vanilla extract
• 200 ml warm milk
• 30 grams of fresh yeast
• 50 grams of brown sugar or honey (50 g)

Preparation

• First of all, it is important to let the fresh yeast ferment. You can do this by soaking it in a bowl with the warm milk and sugar in it. Let it stand for 5 minutes.
• Sift the flour and let it settle on your counter. Then make a kind of hill out of it, roughly in the shape of a volcano. Then put the butter, an egg, the salt and the vanilla extract in the middle.
• Then add the yeast and knead everything well until you get a soft dough.
• When the dough no longer sticks to your hands, knead it on the counter for a while until it is soft and elastic.

• Then let it rise with a tea towel over it, until it doubles in volume (about 45 minutes ).
• Then divide the dough into three equal parts and roll into three thin strips. Then, braid these strips the same way you would braid long hair.
• Then beat the other egg and use a brush to brush the dough with it.
• Place the braided dough on a baking tray lined with baking paper or greased with butter.
• Bake this bread in an oven preheated to 200ºC for 20 to 25 minutes.

Homemade sweet Christmas bread

Ingredients

• A pinch of salt
• Nuts and almonds (to taste)
• 4 medium eggs
• 80 grams of butter
• 30 grams of fresh yeast
• 70 grams brown sugar or honey (70 g)
• 10 grams grated orange and lemon
• 500 grams of flour plus 3 tablespoons for rising
• 100 ml warm milk and 2 tablespoons for rising (about 120 ml)
• Raisins soaked in brandy, brandy, rum, or other spirits (whatever you prefer)

Preparation

• Mix the warm milk, yeast, 3 tablespoons flour and 1 tablespoon sugar in a deep bowl. Then cover the bowl and let the dough double in volume (about 15 minutes).
• In another bowl, mix together the rest of the flour, the remaining sugar and the zest of the lemon and orange. Make a well in the center and add the salt, butter, 2 eggs, warm milk and the risen dough you just made. Mix everything together with your hands first and then knead the dough again on the counter until it is soft and elastic.

• Then divide the dough into two parts, cover with a tea towel and let the dough rise until it has doubled in size.
• Then use a rolling pin to make two rectangles from the two pieces of dough. Sprinkle some raisins, almonds and walnuts on top. Then roll up the dough and knead it some more so that all the ingredients you just added are all over the dough.
• Cover with another tea towel and let the loaves rise until they have doubled in size (this will take about an hour).
• Brush the tops of the two loaves with a beaten egg and then bake for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 º C.