You will love learning how to make this quick and easy honey bread. It is delicious, slightly sweet and fantastic for sandwiches or on its own. Personally thought it was great with ham and cheese.

If you are just getting into making homemade bread, I highly recommend starting out with quick breads. You’ll get to learn how bread bakes and rises in the oven and not have to spend a lot of time making them. Quick breads aren’t yeasted or kneaded, but use baking powder or soda instead to rise the dough. Some of the well known quick breads are banana bread, soda bread and biscuits. So don’t think because it’s quick, it won’t be absolutely delicious bread.

Recently, I was given a recipe for honey bread that was a disaster to me due to too much baking powder. It was so bitter that when given to the chickens as a treat, they only pecked at it and turned away snootily. The bread was beautiful and smelled amazing, despite the baking powder overload. So I decided to revamp the recipe by cutting out some ingredients, adding a lot more flavor by introducing more eggs, brown sugar and buttermilk.

And because I’m lazy, I decided to adapt it from my honey and brown sugar wheat bread and just tweaked it to please more palates. Not everyone is a fan of whole wheat. It took me a long time to appreciate it. So this recipe will taste great for those that simply don’t yet have the palate for whole wheat grains. Let’s stop stalling and learn how to make quick and easy honey bread today. Happy baking!

Honey Bread

This is a quick bread recipe that uses honey and brown sugar to sweeten as opposed to the traditional white sugar. A hint of spice is added to bring out the complexity of the honey.

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Prep Time15 minutes minutes

Cook Time55 minutes minutes

Servings12

Calories 267.1

Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups (375g) flour
• 3 large (150g) eggs
• ¾ cup (170g) softened butter
• ½ cup (120mL) buttermilk
• ½ cup (168g) honey
• ¼ cup (56g) brown sugar
• 1 tsp (6g) baking soda
• 1 tsp (2g) cinnamon
• ½ tsp (2.5g) salt
• ½ tsp (1g) allspice

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F (180C.)
• Grease or parchment line a 9×5 (23x13cm) loaf pan.
• In a small bowl, mix flour, spices, baking soda and salt together.
• In a large bowl, cream sugar, honey and butter. Add in eggs, mixing well between each one.
• Mix in 1/3 of the flour. Next, beat in 1/3 of the buttermilk. Alternate until there are no remaining ingredients. Pour and level into bread pan.
• Bake 55 – 60 minutes or until center bounces back when touched and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Center of bread should read between 200F (93C) and 212F (100C.)

Nutrition Facts

Honey Bread

Serving Size

 

1 slice

Amount per Serving

Calories

267.1

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

12.9

g

20

%

Saturated Fat

 

7.6

g

48

%

Sodium

 

124

mg

5

%

Carbohydrates

 

34.5

g

12

%

Protein

 

4.9

g

10

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

* Calories provided as a courtesy and not guaranteed.