Bake Toast Yourself – Here’s How

Tasty and crispy – you can easily bake toast bread yourself. The recipe is also suitable for beginners and made quickly. We’ll tell you how to make your own toast bread better than any store-bought one.

With this recipe, you can bake your toast bread yourself

Homemade toast has many advantages: it can always be freshly baked as required and you know exactly what is in it and can adapt it to your preferences. For example, you can replace the wheat flour with light spelled flour in butter toast. It is also good for beginners because the basis is a simple yeast dough. You will need these ingredients:

• 600g flour, light wheat or spelled flour
• 1 bag of dry yeast or half a cube of fresh yeast
• 250ml milk, slightly warmed
• 50ml water, slightly warmed
• 75g softened butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp sugar

How to prepare the dough

For your own toast, all you need is a loaf tin so that your bread gets the classic rectangular shape and a little patience. How to proceed:

• First, you should carefully mix the dry yeast with the flour. Now you can add all the other ingredients and knead everything into a smooth, supple dough.
• You can use the dough hooks on your hand mixer or knead the dough by hand. It is important that the dough is kneaded for at least 5 to 10 minutes.
• Now the dough has to rise. Cover it with a cloth and let it rest in a warm, draft-free place for 60 minutes. The dough should eventually have almost doubled in volume.
• While the dough is rising, you can grease the loaf tin with butter or line it with baking paper. Because knead the finished dough again by hand, shape it into a long roll, and put it in the mold.
• The dough must now rise again for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, the oven can be preheated to 180°C top and bottom heat.
• Brush the bread with a little milk and then bake for 25 minutes.
• When the bread comes out of the oven, you should unmold it and let it cool on a wire rack. Sliced ​​it can now always be toasted fresh or frozen for later use.