Honey Bread Recipe
This honey bread recipe makes a loaf that is soft and has wonderful flavor. What surprised me about it is that it isn’t sweet. It’s just a great loaf of bread that you can make from ingredients you probably have in your kitchen right now.
Last Updated on January 25, 2025 – Originally Posted June 2, 2013
Note that this bran bread recipe was most recently tested with a Zojirushi BB-PAC20 as well as a Zojirushi Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus BB-PDC20. Yes, I made two loaves at once. (Learn more about what bread machines I own and recommend.) I’ve made this bread at sea level and at an elevation of 3,700 feet. It worked out fine at both altitudes.
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Thank you for this recipe. My family loved it. It only lasted 2 days in my house. ~ Shelley
This honey bread recipe makes a loaf that is soft and has wonderful flavor.
What surprised me about it is that it isn’t sweet. It’s just a great loaf of bread that you can make from ingredients you probably have in your kitchen right now.
While the bread is soft, it’s also firm enough to slice easily.
I found this recipe for honey bread in a Zojirushi bread manual. If you lost the booklet that came with your Zojirushi bread machine, check out this handy page with manuals for almost all of their bread machines.
Making Honey Bread
This is a recipe for a two-pound bread machine. Use the basic, white setting with medium crust for this recipe.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which order to add ingredients to your bread machine. I use a Zojirushi Bread Machine, so I add the liquids first.
Helpful Hint: I found it helped to put the correct amount of water in a two-cup measure and then add the honey into the same cup. I stirred the honey/water mixture to blend them. I wanted to use all of that yummy honey and not leave any on the side of the measuring cup!
Note that the recipe calls for butter. With Zojirushi bread machines the bread cycle includes time for preheating. So I just cut the butter into cubes. If your machine doesn’t have a preheat cycle, you’ll want to melt the butter.
Check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. It should be a smooth, round ball. This is especially important in this recipe. I used the below recipe and everything was fine. However, several readers have reported that they needed to add a little more water.
Are you a fan of honey? If so, you’ve probably wondered if you can substitute honey for sugar in bread recipes. There are differences between the two sweeteners. However, many bread recipes call for such a small amount of sugar that it doesn’t really matter. So for the most part, substitute away! If your recipe has a quarter cup (4 tablespoons) of sugar or more, then see this article on substituting honey for sugar.
Honey Bread Recipe – Two Pound Loaf
This is a recipe for a two-pound bread machine. Use the basic, white setting with medium crust for this recipe.
1 ¼ cup water
¼ cup honey
4 ¼ cups bread flour
2 ½ Tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons salt
2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
See below for metric measurements, as well as nutrition information, for this honey bread recipe for the bread machine.
Honey Bread Recipe
Recommended Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup (295.74 ml) water
- ¼ cup (84.75 g) honey
- 4 ¼ cups (531.25 g) bread flour
- 2 ½ Tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
Instructions
- This is a recipe for a two-pound bread machine. Use the basic, white setting for this recipe.
- Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which order to add ingredients to your bread machine. I use a Zojirushi Bread Machine, so I add the liquids first.
- Note that the recipe calls for butter. With Zojirushi bread machines the bread cycle includes time for preheating. So I just cut the butter into cubes. If your machine doesn't have a preheat cycle, you'll want to melt the butter.
- Check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. It should be a smooth, round ball. This is especially important on this recipe. I used the recipe as stated and everything was fine. However, several readers have reported that they needed to add a little more water.
Notes
Nutrition
All information presented within this site is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on breadmachinediva.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. I try to provide accurate information to the best of my ability; however these figures should still be considered estimates.
