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I have been in HEAVEN since buying my bread maker last week.  I had been thinking about buying one for a while since I’ve had such poor luck in making bread by hand.  So, when we were at wal-mart I noticed a Black and Decker one on sale, and I snatched it up!  Since then, I’ve been extremely impressed at what I can do!  Or rather…what IT can do!

For my Black and Decker All in One Automatic Breadmaker, it comes with various recipes in the instruction manual.  So far I have stuck to those and have enjoyed the results.  Here are a couple of recipes straight from the manual (with a few minor adjustments from me to use whole wheat flour more often):

Whole Wheat Bread:

1 1/4 cups water (80-90F)

2 1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter or margarine, cut into pieces

2 tbsp. honey

1 1/4 tsp. salt

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

2 1/2 cups bread flour

3 tsp. active dry or bread machine rise yeast

Measure ingredients into bread pan in the order listed.  Follow your bread machine’s instructions to set it up for whole grain bread and choose the appropriate loaf size (2 lb.) and colour. 

Dinner Rolls:

1/4 cup milk (80-90F)

1/4 cup water (80-90F)

1 large egg, at room temperature

1/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp. butter or margarine, cut into small pieces

1/2 tsp. salt

2 cups bread flour

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

2 1/4 tsp. active dry or bread machine yeast

Measure ingredients into bread pan in the order listed.  Follow your bread machine’s instructions to set it up for dough.  This recipe can also be used for cinnamon rolls.  When the dough is complete you roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to be 9x14" rectangle.  Brush with 2 tbsp. melted butter.  Sprinkle with a mixture of 3 tbsp. sugar and 3 tbsp. ground cinnamon.  Top with 1/4 cup raisins.  Roll up jelly-roll style starting at the long end.  Cut into 1-inch slices and arrange in greased 9x12" baking pan.  Cover and let rise in warm place until doubled in size (about 45 minutes).  Bake at 350F for 30 mins. or until golden.  Remove from oven and cool on wire rack. 

I have also been enamoured with the clean-up process.  Why?  Because there really isn’t much of one!  Once the bread has been made, or the dough has been prepared, the bread pan generally just needs to be wiped out.  It’s not really dirty at all, which is wonderful!

Here is a recipe from a fellow blogger, Emily!  Check out her blog post about a soaked whole wheat bread machine bread! 

So, do you have a bread maker?  If so, what are some of your favourite recipes?  Please leave them in the comment section, or post them on your blog and leave a link in the comment section, and leave a link back to this post on your blog!  Happy bread making!