Have you ever made bread with your children? It’s such a satisfying thing to bake as the dough is robust enough. It can withstand a kids enthusiastic handling. This easy bread recipe is kid-friendly. It’s almost about thirty kneads, so it won’t tire out young arms!

Let’s get the kids in the kitchen!

This is a good way to enhance your kids love for culinary arts. They’ll have fun while learning to bake!

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This is what you’ll need to make this bread!

Easy bread recipe Ingredients

To make one large loaf of bread here’s what you will need

  • 4 cups / 500g strong white bread flour
  • 1 1/2 cups /300ml warm water
  • 1 sachet ( 7g or 1 1/2 teaspoons)  fast action dried yeast
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

Directions to make This loaf

Step 1

Measure out all the ingredients into a large bowl and combine them together using 30 kneading movements.

Step 2

Leave for 10 minutes then knead again using 30 movements. My kids like to use the kitchen timer to sound the alarm when the next round of kneading is required.

Step 3

Leave for another 10 minutes then knead again using 30 movements.

Step 4

Leave the dough in a warm place for 30 minutes, with a clean cloth covering the top of the bowl.

Step 5

Then knead lightly and shape the dough into a round.

Step 6

Place it on a greased baking tray.

Step 7

Leave for another 30 minutes in a warm place* and pre-heat the oven to 450F (Gas Mark 8). (*on top of the pre-heating oven is perfect)

Step 8

Bake the bread for 20-25 minutes.

Give your bread a twist

My daughters love to customize their bread and make their own variations on an ordinary loaf. We often set up a baking station on the kitchen table with extra ingredients for them to mix in to the dough to make sweet and savory versions. You could try raisins, candied cherries, ground cinnamon, dried thyme and oregano. They also like to use cookie cutters to make their bread into different shapes and sometimes make letters with the dough too.

Look how creative your cooking can be when kids are involved.
Yield: 1 large loaf

Easy Bread Recipe for Kids

Easy Bread Recipe for Kids

This bread recipe is kid friendly and so easy to make. Requires simple ingredients and almost no kneading needed. You and your kids will enjoy making it with different variations.

Prep Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 cups / 500g strong white bread flour
  • 1 1/2 cups /300ml warm water
  • 1 sachet ( 7g or 1 1/2 teaspoons) fast action dried yeast
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions

1. Combine all the measured ingredients into a large bowl using 30 kneaded movements.

2. Leave for 10 minutes and then kneed again for 30 movements.

3. Leave for 10 minutes and then kneed again for 30 movements.

4. Leave it for 30 minutes in a warm place with a clean cloth as covering.

5. Then knead lightly and shape the dough into a round.

6. Place it on a greased baking tray.

7. Leave for another 30 minutes in a warm place while pre-heating the oven to 450F

8. Bake the bread for 20-25 minutes.

Notes

You and your kids might like to use a timer to know when will be the next kneading.

You can make variations with your bread. You could try adding some raisins, candied cherries, ground cinnamon, dried thyme or oregano.

You can also use cookie cutters to make different shapes with the dough.

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  6. Just made the dough with my 3 and 5 year old boys. But I had to use AP instead….all I had. Oops. We shall see how they turn out. But thanks for the idea all the same. My boys had fun making their bread men.