Best White Bread Recipe For The Bread Machine (2024)

Bread Machine White Bread is simple, basic and tastes great. This recipe makes a high rising loaf with a soft and springy texture perfect to use as a versatile everyday bread. It's the best white bread recipe for the bread machine that you'll find.

This white bread recipe is perfect for the bread machine. It uses bread flour, which has a high protein content, to give it a soft and fluffy texture. With the perfect light density and a balanced flavor, it makes a great basic bread for sandwiches, toast and more. Spread on some roasted garlic or tomatoes and you've got a delicious snack.

White bread gets a bad name for being boring, but this easy bread machine recipe creates a loaf that is anything but that. Use your breadmaker white bread for cheese and tomato sandwiches in the air fryer or slice it into small pieces, toast it and add it to a charcuterie board for any occasion.

Along with bread machine garlic bread, white bread is delicious dipped into homemade chicken soups, vegetable soups, and minestrone, among others.

Once you've mastered how to make a basic white bread in your bread maker, make sure to check out this whole wheat bread and cheese bread.

Bread machine white bread is made with:

• Bread flour: with it's relatively high protein content, bread flour is preferred for making light, fluffy and airy bread recipes. King Arthur bread flour is my preferred brand. You can use all purpose flour as well, but the texture may be a little less soft and springy.
• Warm water: water should be warmed to between 110 and 120 degrees Fahrenheit. You can also use warm milk for a slightly different flavor.
• Butter: unsalted butter works best.
• Olive oil: I use extra virgin olive oil. Substitute with vegetable oil if preferred.
• Salt: white salt, such as table salt or iodized salt.
• Sugar: sugar helps the yeast activate a little more than without sugar but it's not absolutely necessary to add sugar to bread machine recipes. For a sugar-free loaf, leave it out.
• Yeast: you can use instant yeast, bread machine yeast or active dry yeast in breadmaker recipes. I like the outcome of my bread machine recipes most when I use instant dry yeast, so I stick with this. Do not proof yeast before putting into the bread pan.

This bread machine recipe makes a 2 pound loaf. For smaller loaves, see the notes in the recipe card below. It's an effortless recipe where the ingredients get put into the bread pan and the machine does all the work for you.

How To Store Bread Machine Bread

Allow homemade bread to cool completely on a wire rack before packaging to store.
Slice the bread and keep it in a cool dark place, such as a bread box or cloth bread bag. It will stay fresh for up to three days. Homemade bread can also be frozen. Wrap it tightly in plastic and put in a freezer safe storage bag. Freeze for up to 6 months.

Chef's Tip

Don't let the yeast interact with the wet ingredients or salt before the machine starts kneading. To ensure this doesn't happen, make an indent in the flour and add the yeast to it last.

What Kind of Yeast Should I Use?

Instant yeast, active dry yeast, and bread machine yeast are all perfectly fine to use in the bread machine. Instant yeast rises and creates flavor with 1 rise, while active dry yeast takes 2 rises. Since the white bread cycle is programmed for 2 rises, either yeast will work. Bread machine yeastis basically thesame as instant yeast, but is given a different name due to branding. It is a specially formulatedinstant yeastthat's made to rise faster— twice as fast as active dry yeast. When using the different yeasts, you'll see insignificant, if any, differences in this white bread recipe texture or shape.

What is the Best Flour for Making Bread?

For breads that need time to rise, bread flour is the best flour to use. It has a higher amount of protein and gluten, which creates a chewy, airy bread. While you can swap bread flour for all purpose flour, it won't produce the same soft chewy bread. All purpose flour has a lower protein content. This makes it best for breads that are more dense and don't need time to rise, like cookies.

Why Is My Homemade Bread So Dense?

There are many potential reasons for bread machine bread to come out dense. Some of them include: not kneading the dough properly, letting the salt and yeast mix while adding ingredients into the pan, using all purpose or whole wheat flour, an inadequate rise time, and using dead yeast. Making bread in a bread machine should eliminate dense bread resulting from an inadequate rise time and having not properly kneaded the dough. Still, to create a fluffy white bread that is not at all dense, make sure: the salt and yeast do not interact when they are added to the bread pan and that you use properly measured bread flour and fresh yeast.

How to Store Homemade Bread

Soft Bread Machine White Bread Recipe

Kristina Tipps

This bread machine white bread recipe creates an extremely soft, fluffy bread with a chewy texture. It's the fluffiest white bread recipe you'll find! Use it for sandwiches, toast, and dipping into soups and sauces.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 243kcalCarbohydrates: 40gProtein: 7gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 378mgPotassium: 77mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 101IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg