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 December 22, 2024 – Originally Posted June 2, 2013
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I have made this many times and every time the loaf comes out perfect! I use a Z PAC20 and use the timer. I have tried different “flavors” of honey from wildflower, orange blossom and gallberry and have enjoyed every loaf. ~ Patty
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
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Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup (295.7 ml) water
- ¼ cup (84.8 g) honey
- 4 ¼ cups (531.3 g) bread flour
- 2 ½ Tablespoons (2.5 Tablespoons) butter
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 ½ teaspoons (2.5 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.
I have made this many times and every time the loaf comes out perfect! I use a Z PAC20 and use the timer. I have tried different “flavors” of honey from wildflower, orange blossom and gallberry and have enjoyed every loaf.
Thank you for making and testing these recipes…You are my go to from bread machine dough and loaves.
The bread came out auth the ingredients. It was pretty good my only complaint was the flavor wasn’t on point and barely had any honey flavor. But otherwise, it came out perfectly.
Really the best, fluffy, and tall white bread. So large wasn’t sure my bread knife c manage but it is a 10” sharp one. Butter was room temperature. I used KAF Bread Flour. Sometimes the bread machine and the flour does matter. I have the virtuoso ZO bread machine that easily handles this size loaf. A smaller machine I doubt would and you may want to halve the recipe. Definitely a 2 lb recipe!i live in AZ and in the winter when it is dryer 1T more water might be needed. Not this recipe. It was perfect. A smooth round perfect ball in the machine on regular cycle. I usually use the dough cycle and shape and bake but today just did it in the machine. What a perfect surprise. I think in a bread machine the recipes have to be measure precisely. Little forgiveness. My recipe in the booklet was the exact same as your recipe and I could not using the weigh scale. So I used the dip and level method for the flour. Hope this helps some! The salt and honey amounts were perfect on! Thank you!
Breakfast was delicious. The only change was I ordered 3/4 of a cup of toasted sunflower halfway to Mixing at the beep.
This Honey Bread came out so tall and tasted great. I made it last night and we cut the slices narrow so we could use them for sandwiches. No need to add any extra water.
Great recipe. I bought a bread maker yesterday and this was the first recipe I made. It was delicious. Best bread I have tasted and my children loved it. I told my kids that once the store bought bread ran out they will be using this bread and one of my daughters said, “ I want it to run out now”. The only thing I did differently is I added slightly more butter.
Do you melt the butter first or just cube it up?
Great question! I’ve added that information to the recipe. Basically if your machine preheats then you can just add cubes. If it doesn’t then you’ll want to melt the butter first.
This was a complete disaster
I use my bread machine on a regular basis and never have I had an issue
I’m so sorry the recipe didn’t turn out for you. Can you be more specific about what happened? Did the bread rise? Was it completely baked? Did you make any substitutions to the recipe?
I tried this recipe and I am not sure what it was but my bread machine motor over heated twice I have a KBS machine and the first loaf of bread (another recipe came out fine) this re ipe seemed very dry and I added a lot of extra water to moisten the dough up the paddle kept sticking in the dough that is why it was over heating. I am not sure if is a combination of the machine being not strong enough and dry dough. I am having second thoughts on the machine I bought.
I was going to throw away this bread machine and buy a new one but decided to give it one last try with your recipe.
I NEVER write reviews for recipes I’ve found online, but, this bread is fantastic.
I’ve made 100s of loaves in this machine but, to date, this is by far the best! The bread is perfect ( no adjustment of liquids necessary)
Wow!
I can’t wait to make more.
Thanks so much for this! You just made my day!!
This is the softest, most delicious bread I’ve made, EVER! I did add an extra 1/4 cup of water and it came out perfect. I always use my machine to make the dough and then I put it in a bread pan and this rose up quite high!
I’m so glad you liked it!
If I add in 1/4 cup of multigrain,would it affect the bread quality,do you think?
I think it might work. Just be sure to subtract 1/4 cup of regular flour. You also might want to add a little vital wheat gluten.
I made the recipe with whole wheat bread flour, turned out great and nice and thick wonderful tasting bread !!!
This recipie was delicious!! Even my picky eaters asked for more 🙂
Can I use whole wheat instead of bread flour and is it the same amount as the bread flour (4 1/2 cups)? Thanks!
I haven’t had much experience using while wheat flour. (The Man of the House doesn’t like it so the bread doesn’t get eaten.) However I’d be worried that the recipe wouldn’t turn out unless you added some unknown amount of vital wheat gluten. If you do figure out a whole wheat version of this recipe be sure to let me know. I’m sure a lot of people would be interested.
I only have 3 cups of bread flour. Can I put 1 cup of white wheat?
I think it’s worth a try. Let me know how it works out.
Wonderful recipe! It turned out great every time I’ve made it! I do the dough cycle on my Zojirushi bread machine, cut the dough in half, form the dough to fit 1lb. pans, let rise in warm place about 45 min., bake in oven 350 for 25 minutes. They turn out great!!!
I just bought severine breadmaker would like to ask do I have to reduce the recipes portion thks
Pauline
Hi Pauline, Congrats on the new machine! Unless specified, these recipes are for a two pound bread machine. Your bread maker should say if it’s a one, one and a half pound or two pound machine. Changing recipes for different machine sizes can be tricky and usually isn’t just a matter of halving the ingredients. It takes experimentation.
I want to use the “dough” setting and bake it in my oven.
At how many degrees and for how long should I bake it?
Thanks!
I’ve never used the oven for this. No guarantees, but you might try baking it for about 30 minutes in a preheated 350°F oven. If you try this be sure to let me know how it goes.
Bake until internal temp is 190.
Tried thus recipe yesterday and am making my second loaf already this morning. My kids live it. It’s soft but strong enough to make a sandwich that doesn’t fall apart. ( crucial for kids)
Best bread recipe I’ve found yet.
This one is a winner!! Love it and so does the family. Almost gone and I made it yesterday. It’s a keeper for sure. Will be making this one again and soon. I did add about 2 tbls more water after first mix.
I just got a bread maker from my grandmother and it’s a 1- 1 1/2 lbs one. could you tell me what the measurements would be for a 1.5 lbs loaf so I could try this recipe?
Hi Jessica, I’m sorry but I don’t have a 1.5 version of this recipe. 🙁
This recipe was very very yummy! I didn’t need to change the measurements. Thank you!
I made this bread yesterday in my bread machine. It came out wonderful!!
I made the Honey Bread yesterday and had some toast this am.
It equals my Mother in Law’s Ukrainian Egg Bread.
It is one of the best breads I have ever tasted!
My relatives call me “The Breadman”.
I’m so glad you liked it!
Bread came out fine, had on medium setting next time will have on dark, cornbread on the menue tommorow, if I didn’t put in 3 extra tablespoons of water this would have been a disaster, thanks again
Thanks, got my first loaf going in my new Zo , had to add 3 more tablespoons of water to get it where it looked right, I’ll find out here in a bit how it turns out