Easy White Sandwich Bread
This Easy White Sandwich Bread is a super simple, easy-to-make classic white bread that’s a great introduction to bread making!
It’s one of the easiest bread recipes that you can make, with just a few ingredients and a little bit of time. Plus it just happens to be vegan friendly and will make an absolutely delicious way to add some from scratch flair to all of your favorite sandwiches, our Easy White Sandwich Bread!
Ingredients Needed:
- All-purpose flour – The flour needed for that classic white bread.
- Yeast – Instant yeast is what we use because its activation time is so quick. But you could also use an active yeast, which it will just take a bit longer to activate with the sugar and water.
- Sugar – Granulated is best as it will dissolve the fastest in the water to activate the yeast.
- Salt – Fine ground and a non-iodized salt is best, but any fine ground salt works.
- Vegetable oil – You could also use another neutral oil like olive or canola.
- Warm water – To help activate the yeast.
Easy peasy, right?
Equipment Needed:
- Stand mixer – like a Kitchen Aid! This will help a LOT. We love this one!
- Kitchen scale – Honestly, this will be helpful SO many times in the kitchen. And you can get one for (like this one that we love!) for under $20.
- Spray bottle – A lil bottle with water is needed for the maillard reaction or that nice browning on top of the bread!
How to make Easy White Sandwich Bread
It’s a super easy bread to make. Not quite as easy as our No Knead Rosemary Garlic Bread, but still pretty darn easy. All you need to do:
- Activate the yeast
- Add the oil and flour
- Let rise
- Add to a pan
- Let rise again
- Bake
Annnd done!
Activating yeast? That’s just mixing the water and sugar and letting it sit until it gets all nice n’ frothy!
Then add the oil and flour and just let your stand mixer do the work for you.
Mix in the mixer on low until the dough is combined and pulls away nice and cleanly from the side.
Let it proof until it has doubled and looks like a soft pillow you just want to nuzzle your face into.
Put that lovely loaf into a well greased pan and give it couple of pretty scores,
and bake!
To perfection.
This Easy White Sandwich Bread is the perfect sandwich bread. It’s a classic and easy.
If you’re looking for something a little different, or you’ve made this and now want to make all the bread? Here are some of our other favorites!
Homemade Hawaiian Sandwich Bread
No Knead Rosemary Garlic Bread
Easy Dinner Rolls From Scratch
So my quarantine baker buds, bake on! If you can find flour and yeast, that is… ha. Enjoy As always, if you do please let me know!! I love to hear about it on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
Easy White Sandwich Bread
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar 10 g
- 1 1/2 cups warm water (90-100 degrees) 12 oz, 355 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active yeast 8 g, or instant
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 23 g
- 4 1/4 cups all purpose flour 525 g
- 2 1/2 teaspoons fine ground salt 15 g
Instructions
- Activate Yeast: Activate the yeast by adding it to the sugar and water in the bowl of a stand mixer with a dough hook (approximately 10 minutes) until it's frothy.
- Mix Flour and Salt: In a separate large bowl, add flour and salt and mix.
- Mix Dough: Once the yeast is foamy and activated, add the vegetable oil and mix on low with the dough hook attachment. Slowly add flour 1/3 of a cup at a time mixing on low until all is well combined and dough pulls cleanly from the side of the bowl.
- Let Rise: Transfer the dough to a well oiled large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled (approximately 60-90 minutes).
- Preheat Oven: Preheat oven to 400 degrees and liberally grease a 9 X 5 loaf pan.
- 2nd Rise: After the first rise, lightly flour a clean workspace, add dough, and shape it into a large ball. Add dough to the greased loaf pan and gently cover with a linen towel and let rise in the pan for another 30 minutes.
- Score: Once the dough has risen to fill out the loaf pan, use a very sharp knife or bread lame to score the top of the dough 3 times. Spritz with a little cold water.
- Bake: Add to the middle rack of the oven and bake for 40 minutes, but after the first 20 minutes open the oven and spritz the top of the loaf again with water.
- Cool: At the end of the 40 minutes, take the pan out of the oven and gently remove the loaf of bread from the pan and let cool on a cooling rack. Let cool for at least 60 minutes before slicing.
- Enjoy!
Delicious & beautiful!! Easy to follow directions. I will definitely make again.
Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Tracy! Thank you so much for sharing 😀
I love making this Bread it’s so soft and so delicious the wife thinks it’s better than store bought Bread
I love to hear it, Terrence!! Thanks for sharing!