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Soft, slightly sweet homemade Hawaiian bread is a treat to eat, perfect for sandwiches or toast, and so easy to make in your own oven.
By Heather Kinnaird
I am a firm believer that homemade is always better than store bought, and this hawaiian bread is no different. Once you try it, you will never go back.
Bread baking has become a Sunday ritual for me. I bake a few loves each weekend to get us through the week, and this Hawaiian bread is the kids’ favorite. It bakes up super soft, slightly sweet, and is the perfect loaf for toast and sandwiches.
Homemade Hawaiian Bread
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- Author: Heather Kinnaird
Description
Soft, slightly sweet homemade Hawaiian bread is a treat to eat, perfect for sandwiches or toast, and so easy to make in your own oven.
Ingredients
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1/4 cup milk (warm)
- 1/4 cup butter (melted)
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 envelope active dry yeast (I prefer Red Star Platinum yeast)
- 3 – 3 1/2 cups flour
Instructions
- combine pineapple juice, milk, melted butter, egg, sugar,vanilla, salt, and yeast
- stir in 3 cups of flour,
- knead, adding additional flour if needed, until you have a soft, smooth ball of dough (about 5 minutes if using the dough hook of a stand mixer)
- cover, and let rise until doubled – about 1 hour
- grease a standard loaf pan
- punch down dough, press into a rectangle, fold into thirds (top over middle, and then bottom over top), and place seam side down in prepared pan
- cover and let rise 45 minutes
- heat oven to 350 degrees
- bake 20 – 25 minutes until the top is dark golden brown
- cool in pan 5 minutes, and then turn out onto a rack to complete cooling
Notes
This Hawaiian bread can also easily be made into rolls – after the first rising, simply divide the dough into 16 pieces, roll, and place in a greased baking dish, cover and rise 45 minutes, and then bake @350 for 15-20 minutes.
- Category: Baking, Bread
Heather Kinnaird is the blogger behind French Press, a blog dedicated to family friendly meals, sweet treats, and homemade versions of store bought classics. When she's not in the kitchen you 'll probably find Heather chasing after her kids, three dogs, 6 chickens, and sometimes all of the above.
Do you just throw the yeast in dry into the wet ingredients or do I need to prepare it?
I just put the yeast dry into the wet ingredients. I do warm up the pineapple juice up slightly. This bread is delicious. Just made some today
Do you use bread flour?
Mine are in the oven now. Does this recipe make 2 loaves? I doubled this recipe and ended up with 3 loaves. Thanks!
This is my 2nd attempt.. first attempt my dough did not rise, so this time I tried to let yeast sit in warm milk first the add to the other liquids then added flour so we’ll see ??
Other wise it’s time for a diff recipe… I may not get best results after baking but my dough always rose so idk what’s going on
Do you use all purpose or bread flour? I just made a loaf with bread flour and it’s both very dense and undercooked but still very delicious . Going to use the center bits for a French toast bake
I made this bread for my family and it was an instant hit! We all loved it. I will be making this on a regular basis.
Hooray, happy to hear that!!