Easy bread recipe for kids

This really easy bread recipe for kids is so simple to make it’s a great activity for any kid who wants to get busy in the kitchen and bake something wholesome and delicious.

This reasy bread recipe for kids is the perfect activity to get busy in the kitchen with. Baking is a great thing to do with kids if you want to get busy in the kitchen. It’s easy and kneading bread is a fantastic tactile experience which kids don’t always get to experience with food.

I love a basic white bread recipe – there’s nothing better than the smell of fresh bread baking in the oven. And it’s nice to bake something with kids that doesn’t involve things like sugar or butter.

My kids were really enthusiastic about this soft white bread. It’s so nice to eat when its still a little warm from the oven and they were so proud that they’d made it themselves.

The only downside to making your own bread is that no matter how simple your bread recipe is for kids, you’ll still need a lot of patience as you wait for it to prove. It’s a time consuming process meaning although it doesn’t take a lot of time to do all the steps in the recipe it will take a few hours to make. It’s worth it though and my kids were fascinated by the growing bread dough during the proving process.

How can kids help make a basic white bread?

If you’ve never baked bread before you should be pleasantly surprised at just how easy it is.

This recipe is a really easy bread recipe for kids as it combines the best parts of other bread recipes. It’s a cross between Mary Berry’s bread recipe and Paul Hollywood’s white cob recipe. Mary Berry’s bread uses one sachet of yeast which is really simple to measure out rather than messing with weighing grams of yeast accurately. And Paul Hollywood’s white cob recipe is a really easy shape to make.

Kids can help measure and mix all the ingredients together. They should also enjoy kneading the bread dough. We sometimes use our mixer to make the kneading process a bit quicker but always give my kids the chance to at least do some of the kneading by hand. It’s great for children to be able to touch the dough and feel it changing its texture the more they work it.

What other easy bread recipes for kids can i make?

If your kids enjoyed making this loaf of bread they might also some of our other easy bread recipes for kids including:

Finger rolls
Brown bread
Tiger bread
Soda bread
Homemade bagels
Hedgehog rolls
English muffins
Breadsticks
Homemade garlic focaccia

Useful equipment

You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make this bread.

Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoons
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Baking tray
Wire rack

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Ingredients

450g (3 1/2 cups) strong white bread flour
7g sachet fast action yeast
40g (3 tbsp) butter, melted
1 tsp salt
300ml (1 1/3 cups) warm water

How to make the basic white bread

Mix everything together

Get your kids to start by measuring out the flour and add it to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Measure the butter, then melt it in your microwave, before adding it to your flour.

Add the yeast and the salt to separate sides of the bowl.

Finally, add the water – it should be warm, but not too hot.

Make the bread dough

Mix everything together until it comes together into a soft sticky dough. You can either do this with wooden spoons, hands or the dough hook on your freestanding mixer.

Once your dough has formed, you need to knead it until it forms a soft, sticky ball of dough. If you’re using your hands you can get your kids to do this on a lightly floured work surface – it’ll take around 5-10 minutes.

Alternatively, use your mixer with the dough hook for 4-5 minutes.

When we make bread we tend to do a bit of both because as much as they love kneading bread, they won’t necessarily do it for long enough. I’ll start using our mixer so it can do most of the hard work and then let the kids finish kneading the bread by hand.

If you need to, when doing it by hand, you can add a little extra flour to stop it from becoming too sticky.

Prove the dough

Oil a bowl then pop the dough in it. Cover it with cling film so no air can escape then leave it in a warm place to rise. Leave it for an hour or two until it has doubled in size.

Make the cob loaf

Turn the dough out on to a floured work surface, and get your kids to knock it back. Basically you need to knock the air out of it by folding it in on itself and bashing it.

Once you’ve done this shape the dough into a round ball. We did this by flattening it into a rectangle then folding the ends under. We then turned the dough round, trying to smooth the top by tucking the ends under.

Pop the round dough on a baking tray and cover loosely with either a large plastic bag or cling film and leave it in a warm place for 45 minutes or so until it’s doubled in size again.

Bake the easy white bread

Preheat your oven to 220C / 200C Fan / 425F.

Bake your bread in your oven for 20-25 minutes. It’s ready when it’s browned nicely and if you tap the bottom of the loaf it should sound hollow.

Easy bread recipe for kids

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This really easy bread recipe for kids is so simple to make it's a great activity for any kid who wants to get busy in the kitchen and bake something wholesome and delicious.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Proving time 2 hours hrs 45 minutes mins

Total Time 3 hours hrs 35 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine British

Servings 10 slices

Calories 183 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 450 g strong white bread flour
• 7 g sachet fast action yeast
• 40 g butter melted
• 1 tsp salt
• 300 ml warm water

Instructions

 

Mix everything together

• Measure out the flour and add it to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Measure the butter, then melt it in your microwave, before adding it to your flour.
• Add the yeast and the salt to separate sides of the bowl.
• Finally, add the water – it should be warm, but not too hot.

Make the bread dough

• Mix everything together until it comes together into a soft sticky dough. You can either do this with wooden spoons, hands or the dough hook on your freestanding mixer.
• Once your dough has formed, you need to knead it until it forms a soft, sticky ball of dough – it'll take around 5-10 minutes. Alternatively, use your mixer with the dough hook for 4-5 minutes.

Prove the dough

• Oil a bowl then pop the dough in it. Cover it with cling film so no air can escape then leave it in a warm place to rise. Leave it for an hour or two until it has doubled in size.

Make the cob loaf

• Turn the dough out on to a floured work surface, and knock it back. Basically you need to knock the air out of it by folding it in on itself and bashing it.
• Once you've done this shape the dough into a round ball. We did this by flattening it into a rectangle then folding the ends under. We then turned the dough round, trying to smooth the top by tucking the ends under.
• Pop the round dough on a baking tray and cover loosely with either a large plastic bag or cling film and leave it in a warm place for 45 minutes or so until it's doubled in size again.

Bake the bread

• Preheat your oven to 220C / 200C Fan
• Bake your bread in your oven for 20-25 minutes. It's ready when it's browned nicely and if you tap the bottom of the loaf it should sound hollow.

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