Vegan Sweet Wheat Bread

Bread baking is such a special occasion. You really have to LOVE bread to want to make it at home. Bread is so easy (and cheap) to buy, so if you’re baking vegan bread at home it’s going to be an event. Personally, I don’t bake bread that often, but when I do it’s definitely the highlight of my week. Baking bread at home smells soo good, it’s a wonder I don’t do it everyday.

This vegan sweet wheat bread recipe is one of my favorites, and it is adapted from The Joy of Cooking, probably the best cookbook ever made. There are a lot of bread recipes in The Joy of Cooking, and the sweet wheat bread recipe stuck out to me immediately. After taking a quick look at the ingredients, I was glad to see that this bread recipe would be easy to make vegan, and I already had everything on hand. So, I dropped what I was doing and very quickly got to work baking bread!

If this is your first time baking bread, then this vegan bread recipe is a great one to start out with. This is a quick bread, meaning there is no yeast involved, so you don’t have to worry about doughs rising or not rising, which can be a struggle sometimes when dealing with yeast. And, I bet you already have most of these ingredients in your cabinet, save maybe for the flax meal needed to make the flax egg (1 flax egg = 1 tbs flax meal + 3 tbs water), and molasses. But, those things are worth a special trip to the grocery store, and I recommend always having them on hand when the craving for vegan baking hits!

Hope you all enjoy this vegan wheat bread recipe. Your house is about to smell amazing - thank me later!

Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 c whole wheat flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• dash of salt

• 1 flax egg

• 1/2 c molasses

• 1/4 c brown sugar

• 1/4 c oil

• zest of a lemon

• 2/3 c non-dairy milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease and flour a loaf pan and set aside.

2. In a large bowl, whisk all of the dry ingredients together (except for the brown sugar).

3. In a separate bowl, whisk the wet ingredients (including the brown sugar).

4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients in 2-3 parts, mixing after each addition so the dough is well incorporated. Dough will be thick, so be careful not to overmix.

5. Pour the dough into a loaf pan, smoothing down the top.

6. Bake for about 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

7. Cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before removing from the pan to cool completely on the rack.

Adapted From: The Joy of Cooking