62 Best Bread Machine Recipes To Make You Look Like a Pro
Sneak Preview: Check out this collection of the best bread machine recipes you can mix up in your bread machine or bread maker. Most are easy. A few are advanced.
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Since bread machines are my thing, I gathered all of my best bread maker recipes into one place to make it easy for you. No more scouring the web for mind-numbing hours looking for a recipe that may or may not be good.
When using one of my recipes, you won’t need the user’s manual that came with your bread machine. Instead, I’ll guide you step-by-step as you use a bread machine to do what it does best.
No worries if you don’t have a bread machine or bread maker. Nearly all of my recipes have alternate directions for stand mixers, food processors, or making bread by hand.
How to get the best bread when using a bread machine:
When I bake bread, I want it to be the best. It has to be worth the trouble and all those steps it takes to burn calories.
When the ingredients are dumped into a machine, mixed, and then baked right there in the machine, it’s not always the best. Many times, it’s not very good.
But don’t blame your bread machine or bread maker. After all, it doesn’t have a brain. Instead, human intervention is often required to make the very BEST bread that tastes good, looks good, and compares favorably with anything you can buy at a bakery.
In my book, bread makers are the best kneading machine in town. So I use them to mix and knead the dough. When the dough cycle completes, grab the dough and work it into the shape of your choice.
Let it rise and stick it in your oven. Don’t take it out until it’s perfectly baked throughout (use a quick-read thermometer if you need to) and golden brown.
“Bread machines don’t have a brain.”
You’ll be amazed at how simple most of these recipes are. Even beginners will likely find success, especially if you read and follow all the tips. But you’ll also find some more advanced recipes like the Ciabatta above, Bread Machine Brioche, or Bread Machine Sourdough with No Commercial Yeast. There is truly something for everybody.
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“I’ve made the Ciabatta bread, the french bread and today the buttermilk sandwich bread. They have all come out PERFECT! The recipes are easy to follow and I love that I can weigh the ingredients. My husband couldn’t get enough of the french bread. He told me not to lose the recipe since it was the best I’ve made since I have tried several different recipes and this was by far the best! Thank you!! Can’t wait to try some other of your recipes.”
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“I have had to make all my bread, pizza, and roll doughs in my bread machines all the time now due to time constraints and your recipes have helped me make full use of my machines with good results. It was very helpful to realize I could do the dough in the machines and finish up in my oven, no holes in the bottom of the loaf, yay!!”
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A Crusty Bread Machine French Bread
This recipe is for a simple, crusty French bread you can mix up in your bread machine and bake in the oven for the freshest bread ever.
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Outstanding Bread Machine 100% Whole Wheat Recipe
This 100% whole-grain loaf is mixed and kneaded with a bread machine, then shaped by hand before baking in a conventional oven. Peanut butter or sunflower butter and vital wheat gluten are optional ingredients.
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Sprouted Wheat Bread Machine Recipe with Honey and Seeds
This Sprouted Wheat Bread Machine Recipe with Honey and Seeds is so tasty you will enjoy eating it even if you don't care about the benefits of sprouted wheat flour. Sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, flax, chia seeds, and a surprise secret ingredient maximize the flavor.
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Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns: Make Good Friday Special
Get out your bread machine to make these traditional Hot Cross Buns–think apple pie spices inside a sweet dinner roll with a bit of icing on top.
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Buttermilk Bread Machine Bread Recipe
This Buttermilk Bread Machine recipe makes a soft white sandwich loaf. Skip the hassle of kneading. Let your bread machine do the job instead. Shape the dough by hand and bake in your oven for a blue-ribbon loaf.
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Bread Machine Oatmeal Bread Recipe with Sunflower Seeds
Oatmeal Sunflower Bread has a mild, non-assertive but nutty flavor that's perfect for sandwiches and toast. Make the dough in a bread machine and bake it in your oven.
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Classic Bread Machine Sourdough Bread Recipe – No Yeast
Make this no-yeast sourdough bread recipe in your bread machine using the DOUGH cycle. All the hard work of mixing and kneading happens in the machine, but you do the shaping and baking in a conventional oven for a superior crust and a traditional appearance.
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Bread Machine Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Recipe
This recipe makes a sweet cinnamon swirl bread with or without raisins. Use your bread machine to mix and knead the dough.
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Basic Bread Machine White Bread You’ll Be Eager to Share
This basic Bread Machine White Bread is a soft and fluffy 1.5-pound loaf with no eggs and not a lot of sugar or fat.
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Soft Dinner Rolls: A Tangzhong Bread Machine Recipe
These homemade rolls are everything you could want in a dinner roll: light, airy, flavorful, and versatile. Plus, thanks to a Tangzhong-inspired modification, they stay fresh for 2-3 days with no preservatives
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Chewy Sourdough Dinner Roll Recipe
These chewy sourdough bread rolls are easy to mix and knead with a bread machine.
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Chocolate Bread Machine Recipe for Cinnamon Rolls
Dark chocolate cocoa flavors the rich dough to make fabulous cinnamon rolls that will remind you of chocolate doughnuts with chocolate frosting.
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Soft Garlic Bread Machine Breadsticks Recipe
This bread machine recipe for yeasted garlic breadsticks tastes similar to the ones at Olive Garden.
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Tomato Basil Bread Recipe Mixed in a Bread Machine
Mix up Tomato Basil Bread in your Bread Machine, shape by hand, then bake in your oven. Take your next toasted cheese sandwich up a notch.
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Sourdough Bread Machine Bread: A Simple Loaf Recipe
Make this basic sourdough bread machine loaf using the DOUGH cycle of your bread machine, then bake in your oven.
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Bread Machine White Bread with Condensed Milk Recipe
A finely-textured loaf of soft white bread–mixed, kneaded, and proofed in a bread machine, but shaped by hand and baked in a conventional oven for the best of both worlds.
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Bread-Machine Challah (Dairy-Free)
Bread Machine Challah, a traditional Jewish bread, is a golden, eggy, tender, and only slightly-sweet yeast bread you can mix and knead in your bread machine. This is a dairy-free version.
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Bread Machine Ciabatta Recipe
Because ciabatta starts life as a very slack and sticky dough, the bread machine is a useful tool to mix and knead the dough. Make the biga by adding the first three ingredients listed below to your bread machine at least 12 hours ahead of time. This is a sort of “starter” that will contribute flavor and a hole-y texture to your bread.
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Hearty Bread-Machine Rye Bread
This dense and hearty rye bread boule is flavored with molasses and caraway seed. Make a "sponge" the night before in your bread machine, then add the remaining ingredients the next day. This simple step will give you a better texture and more complex flavor.
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Pillsbury Cornbread Twists: A Copycat Recipe
A hot dog wrapped with a yeasty cornbread dough or make the same dough and twist the strips into cornsticks to go with a hearty soup like chili or stew.
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Bread Machine Brioche Recipe
Now you can make classic brioche in your bread machine, then shape it by hand to meet your specific needs before baking in a conventional oven.
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Bread Machine Focaccia Recipe
Bread Machine Rosemary Parmesan Focaccia is easy to mix and knead in a bread machine, then shaped by hand and baked in a conventional oven.
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Bread Machine Whole Wheat Rolls Recipe
These Whole Wheat Rolls are sturdy but soft and tasty, making them suitable for buns or mini-sliders.
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Bread Machine Hawaiian Sweet Rolls Recipe
A sweet and soft roll in the same style as my favorite Hawaiian bread at the grocery store. Instructions for mixing and kneading in a bread machine, then shaping by hand and baking in a conventional oven.
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Classic Bread Machine Dinner Rolls
This recipe produces a light and airy slightly-sweet dinner roll you can mix up in your bread machine. Shape by hand and bake in your conventional oven for the best of both worlds.
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Cinnamon Crispy Toasts: How To Recycle Homemade Bread
In taste and appearance, these resemble the cinnamon toast crisps sold at the Corner Bakery.
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Sweet Potato Rolls Recipe with Honey Butter Glaze
These light and fluffy dinner rolls are made with sweet potatoes and baked with a honey-butter glaze. Great slider buns without glaze.
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Honey Wheat Bread Machine Recipe
This recipe for Honey Whole Wheat Bread will make one fabulous loaf of whole wheat bread. "Healthy" never tasted so good.
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Cranberry Sauce Rolls–A Bread Machine Recipe
A light and fluffy dinner roll with lemon and cranberry flavors that go perfectly with turkey or ham; a delicious way to put cranberries on your Thanksgiving menu
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Bread Machine Bear Claws
Mix up these rich sweet rolls in your bread machine. They are really just fancy looking cinnamon rolls with icing and almonds on top. Crazy easy.
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Terrific Tangzhong Cinnamon Rolls from Your Bread Machine
These cinnamon rolls are so soft, buttery, and ooey-gooey, they probably won't last more than one day. But if you have leftovers, you'll be surprised at how long they stay fresh.
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Crusty Bread Machine Rolls Recipe
Crusty dinner rolls with a soft interior–cornstarch glaze is the secret.
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Cracked Wheat Berry Bread — A Bread Machine Recipe
A nubby, crunchy loaf starring cracked wheat berries that you can easily make in your bread machine
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Easy Orange Rolls Recipe
Try these Easy Orange Yeast Rolls with directions for mixing and kneading in a bread machine. Bake in your oven.
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Sweet Bread Machine Banana Bread with Yeast
Break out of your same old banana bread routine. Use those old bananas to make this Banana Whole-Wheat Yeast Bread in your bread machine. It's slightly sweet with a sugar-cardamom mixture sprinkled over the top.
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Bread Machine Whole Wheat Pizza Dough with Honey
Honey Whole Wheat Pizza Dough comes with directions and amounts appropriate for a bread machine.
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My Best Cinnamon Rolls: Inspired by Pecan Twirls
My Best Cinnamon Rolls are traditional cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing. Written for mixing in a bread machine.
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Cranberry Pecan Bread Machine Recipe
This bread machine recipe is a sweet and savory artisan loaf with a crispy crust. Dried cranberries and toasted pecans complement the fresh rosemary in this flavorful bread you can easily mix and knead in a bread machine.
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Herb Bread Machine Recipe with Garlic (Dinner Rolls)
These rolls are a soft but slightly chewy dinner roll that will make your house smell like a chic little Parisian cafe as they bake. Wonderful with a Thanksgiving turkey.
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Golden Egg and Dried Fruit Bread Machine Recipe
Golden Egg Bread with Dried Fruit has a light texture that works well for bread pudding, sandwiches, and eating out of hand.
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Christmas Dinner Rolls with Brown Butter and Rosemary Recipe
You’ll find this festive ring of rosemary yeast rolls difficult to resist. They also make wonderful slider buns for leftover ham, turkey, or roast beef.
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Sweet Apple-Cinnamon Bread Machine Recipe
A sweet yeast bread to mix and knead in a bread machine, then baked in a conventional oven
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Orange Sweet Rolls Recipe
Distinctly orange-flavored sweet yeast rolls you can mix and knead with your bread machine. Finish with a deliciously orange-flavored cream cheese frosting.
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Soft Rum Raisin Buns Recipe
Get out your bread machine to make these fluffy and light rolls flavored with rum or rum extract and raisins.
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Bread Machine Lemon Bread Recipe
A simple pull-apart bread flavored with lemon and orange zest that you can make in your bread machine
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Poppy Seed Bread Rolls (Bread Machine Recipe)
Poppyseed Yeast Rolls are light and airy dinner rolls with a touch of sweetness.
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White Whole Wheat Rolls Recipe
Light and soft white whole wheat rolls from your bread machine will be the star of the party.
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Party Bread with Three Flavors: A Bread Machine Recipe
Monkey Bread (yeast) with 3 different flavors: butter, cheese, cinnamon-sugar; mixed and kneaded in a bread machine
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Potato Rolls: Bread Machine Recipe
This bread machine recipe for potato yeast rolls is laced with chewy Cheddar cheese. Make the night before and refrigerate if more convenient.
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Bread Machine Monkey Bread Recipe
A pull-apart, brioche-like yeast bread, mixed and kneaded in a bread machine, then baked in the oven in a bundt pan.
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Dark Brown Bread Rolls without Rye Recipe
Steakhouse Rolls are dark-colored rolls like we used to get at Steak and Ale. Directions for mixing and kneading in a bread machine are included.
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Cheese Buns Recipe
Fluffy cheese buns are light and fluffy dinner rolls with melty cheese on the inside and crusty cheese on the outside.
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Pretzel Roll Recipe Bread Machine
Make your own pretzel buns for a fun sandwich or eat them alone with a little mustard.
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Bread-Machine Challah (Dairy-Free)
Bread Machine Challah, a traditional Jewish bread, is a golden, eggy, tender, and only slightly-sweet yeast bread you can mix and knead in your bread machine. This is a dairy-free version.
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Fantans: A Bread Machine Recipe
This is a yeast bread recipe mixed and kneaded in a bread machine. Shaped like peel-apart Brown 'n' Serves.
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Bread Machine Swedish Cardamom Bread Recipe
Cardamom Yeast Bread for the bread machine is a sweet and rich yeast bread, spiced with cardamom. Instructions for mixing and kneading in a bread machine, then shaping and baking in a conventional oven.
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Fresh Blueberry Bread Machine Recipe
Don't miss this rich and sweet brioche-like yeast bread with fresh, sweetened blueberries swirled throughout.
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Seeded Rolls: A Bread Machine Recipe
This recipe for Seeded Rolls makes dinner rolls or buns mixed and kneaded in the bread machine, Roll in a snail shape, top with seeds, and bake in a conventional oven.
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Cinnamon Twist Breakfast Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)
This bread machine coffee cake is a yeast bread in the same family as cinnamon rolls–directions for mixing and kneading in a bread machine included.
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Multi-Grain Bread Machine Hamburger Buns
Make these 7-grain buns for your next cookout, tailgate, or party.
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Oat Rolls with Honey Recipe (Bread Machine)
These Oatmeal Rolls are soft, light, and fluffy with just enough oatmeal to give a little chew and make them interesting. Honey adds the right amount of sweetness.
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Giant Cinnamon Roll Cake: A Bread Machine Recipe
Try this really big cinnamon roll that makes two 8-inch round pans adding a fun twist to a holiday cinnamon roll tradition
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Please email me if you are looking for a specific recipe but don’t see it here (address below). Then, I’ll add it to my list. Many of the recipes you see here were created and tested in response to a reader request.
Looking for some advice for using your bread maker?
- 6 Bread-Machine Secrets You Need To Know To Make Marvelous Bread: Beginners should start here.
- How To Use a Bread Machine to Make Fabulous Bread: Learn about my philosophy of using a bread machine for what it does best.
- How to Choose a Bread Maker: This is a buyer’s guide to purchasing a bread machine. Find out how to match your needs with the right bread machine.
- 5 Surprising Reasons I Don’t Bake Bread in My Bread Machine: Read about the unconventional way I use my bread machine.
- How to Convert a Yeast Bread Recipe for Use in a Bread Machine: Do you have a favorite recipe you want to make in your bread machine? Now you can.
- How To Rescue Bread Dough When You Forgot To Add the Yeast: All may not be lost. If you have time, try this solution to save your bread.
- Overproofed Dough in a Bread Machine: What, Why, and How To Fix It: These answers to your questions about overproofed dough will help you make a better loaf.
- Why is My Bread so Dense? (Plus a Special Bread Machine Section): If you are turning out dense loaves, be sure to read this post.
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Hope to see you again soon! Paula
Paula Rhodes, author
I’m a retired home economist, wife, mother, grandmother, and creator of Saladinajar.com. I believe you don’t have to be a chef to find joy in creating homemade food worth sharing. Here you’ll find time-saving tips, troubleshooting advice, and confidence-inspiring recipes to make life in the kitchen more fun, appetizing, and satisfying.