Milky Loaf Bread Baked in a Pound Cake Mold is such a delightful way to bake a soft, tender loaf that rises beautifully in an unexpected pan. I just love how this recipe transforms a humble pound cake mold into something magical for bread baking.
The secret to this bread’s wonderful texture is the generous amount of milk and butter that keeps every crumb moist and tender. The yeast does its lovely work creating that beautiful rise, while the milk and butter work together to give you a loaf that’s almost cake-like in its softness.
This is the kind of bread that brings everyone to the table with smiles on their faces, sliced warm with a bit of butter melting into every bite. I’ve shared this loaf at so many family gatherings, and it always reminds us that the simplest recipes, made with love, become the ones we remember forever.
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Milky Loaf Bread Baked in a Pound Cake Mold
Ingredients
- 200 g Wheat Flours
- 1 teaspoon Yeast
- 20 g Sugar
- 0.6 teaspoon Salt
- 140 ml Milk
- 0.2 g Butter
Instructions
- Combine the milk and the butter in a heat-resistant cup and microwave at 500 W for 30 seconds or until warm to the touch.
- Place the flour in a heat-resistant bowl.
- Put the yeast on top of the flour.
- Add the sugar and salt away from the yeast.
- Pour in Step 1, aiming for the yeast.
- Leave it just like that for 1 minute.
- Knead it and bring it all together for 3 minutes while occasionally knocking the bowl against the counter.
- Cover the surfaces of the dough with plastic wrap and then cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
- Microwave for 2 minutes at 150 W.
- Remove from the microwave and let it rise.
- (About 30 minutes.)
- To check the rising, see the bubbles on the bottom of the bowl.
- Another way to check the rising is if you poke the dough with a floured finger and the hole doesn’t fill in.
- That means it’s ready!
- Grease the pan with shortening.
- Divide the dough into 4 portions, round them, and place into the pan.
- You don’t need to let the dough rest here.
- Let the dough rise a second time until doubled in size.
- I usually use the bread rising function of my oven, 20 minutes at 40C.
- Bake it without preheating the oven!
- As the oven is heating to 190C, when it reaches 100C, place the dough inside.
- Leave in the oven until it has reached 190C.
- Once the oven has reached 190C, bake the bread for 15 minutes.
- (The amount of time it takes to bake will depend on your oven, so keep an eye on it until the very end.)
