This cake bread recipe uses a bread machine to easily create a delicious bread that is part cake and part bread! This is not a dessert cake but rather a light and fluffy sweet tasting bread that can be used for breakfast toast and sandwich lunches. I like it as a breakfast bread with blackberry jam. My boys think it is a much better tasting than white bread and love it with cold cuts for lunch.
FYI – I also experimented with this recipe. I tried to make this bread even more like a cake (by using 2 cups of cake mix and only 2 cups of flour). However, it was too cake-like and didn’t hold its shape well. It was much more crumbly than our recipe below. Not good for lunch sandwiches if they are falling apart in your hands! The recipe below does not have this problem because it has more flour and thus holds its shape.
You can also try our recipe with other cake mixes (i.e. vanilla cake mix). Choose your favorite cake “flavor” and try it out. I selected a yellow cake mix because I wanted to create a yellow colored bread. Or if you like cake mix, you can also try our delicious Cake Mix Banana Bread recipe.
Since this bread recipe is done in a bread machine, it is simple & easy to make. It should take you only 5 minutes or so to prepare and then you let the bread machine do the rest of the work. For more great recipes, please visit Bread Dad’s main Bread Machine Recipes section. Bread Dad also has a printable and “pin-able” recipe at the bottom of the page.
Delicious Cake Bread – Part Cake & Part Bread
This Cake Bread has a Nice Light Yellow Color
Ingredients – Bread Machine – Cake Bread (2 lb Bread Loaf)
- 1 1/3 Cups – Water (warm)
- 4 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (sliced)
- 3 Cups – Bread Flour
- 1 Cup – Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 Teaspoon – Salt
- 4 Tablespoons – White Granulated Sugar
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons – Bread Machine Yeast
Servings – Roughly 12 Slices
- Equipment used for this recipe – Measuring cup & spoons, flexible spatula, oven mitts, cooling rack… and of course, a bread machine!
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Instructions – Bread Machine – Cake Bread
- Bread Machine settings – 2 pound loaf, light color and “basic” bread setting.
- Unplug your bread machine. Remove the bread pan from the bread machine (so when you add the ingredients to the bread pan, they can not accidentally spill into the machine).
- Add all ingredients starting with the water into the bread machine “bucket” (loaf pan). Place the bread machine yeast in last and the yeast should not touch the water (until the bread machine is turned on and the ingredients start to be mixed together). In addition, the yeast should not be placed next to the salt (as the salt can inhibit yeast growth).
- Place the bread pan (with ingredients) back into the bread machine. Close bread machine cover.
- Plug in the bread machine.
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Enter the settings (2 lb, light color and basic bread setting) and press the start button.
- After the bread machine has finished baking the bread, remove the bread and place it on a cooling rack. Use oven mitts when removing the bread machine container as it will be very hot!
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In our Sunbeam bread machine, the baking takes about 3 hours for a 2 pound bread at the light color & basic bread settings. However, some machines can differ and you don’t want to be away from home when the bread machine “finished” alarm goes off! Your bread machine should show you the length of the baking time after you have entered the settings into the machine. This will allow you to know when to be in the kitchen in order to remove the bread.
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Tips – Bread Machine – Cake Bread
- As I said above, this is not a moist & juicy cake, banana bread, pound cake, etc. Rather it is a dry sandwich-type bread that tastes like a cake.
- However, if you are looking for a recipe for a “real” cake, you should try our Bread Machine Chocolate Cake recipe.
- You can also try our recipe with other cake mixes (i.e. vanilla cake mix or lemon cake mix). For the bread shown on this page, we used Duncan Hines® classic yellow cake mix.
- If you add more cake mix than what is called for in this recipe, this bread may have difficulty holding its shape when cut for sandwich slices. It becomes too “crumbly”. Stick to the recipe’s 3 cups of flour and 1 cup of cake mix for a bread that will more effectively retain its shape when sliced for sandwiches or toast.
- This recipe calls for bread flour. However, if you are out of bread flour, you can also use all-purpose flour. Just be aware that a bread made with bread flour will be slightly more airy than a bread made with all-purpose flour.
- For more easy bread machine ideas (i.e. white bread, cornbread, French bread, etc.), please visit Bread Dad’s main Bread Machine Recipes section.
Bread Machine - Cake Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 Cups Water (warm)
- 4 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (sliced)
- 3 Cups Bread Flour
- 1 Cup Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 4 Tablespoons White Granulated Sugar
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons Bread Machine Yeast
Instructions
- Bread Machine settings – 2 pound loaf, light color and “basic” bread setting.
- Unplug your bread machine. Remove the bread pan from the bread machine (so when you add the ingredients to the bread pan, they can not accidentally spill into the machine).
- Add all ingredients starting with the water into the bread machine “bucket” (loaf pan). Place the bread machine yeast in last and the yeast should not touch the water (until the bread machine is turned on and the ingredients start to be mixed together). In addition, the yeast should not be placed next to the salt (as the salt can inhibit yeast growth).
- Place the bread pan (with ingredients) back into the bread machine. Close bread machine cover.
- Plug in the bread machine.
- Enter the settings (2 lb, light color and basic bread setting) and press the start button.
- After the bread machine has finished baking the bread, remove the bread and place it on a cooling rack. Use oven mitts when removing the bread machine container as it will be very hot!
- In our Sunbeam bread machine, the baking takes about 3 hours for a 2 pound bread at the light color & basic bread settings. However, some machines can differ and you don’t want to be away from home when the bread machine “finished” alarm goes off! Your bread machine should show you the length of the baking time after you have entered the settings into the machine. This will allow you to know when to be in the kitchen in order to remove the bread.
Notes
- You can also try our recipe with other cake mixes (i.e. vanilla cake mix or lemon cake mix). For the bread shown on this page, we used Duncan Hines® classic yellow cake mix.
- If you add more cake mix than what is called for in this recipe, this bread may have difficulty holding its shape when cut for sandwich slices. It becomes too “crumbly”. Stick to the recipe’s 3 cups of flour and 1 cup of cake mix for a bread that will more effectively retain its shape when sliced for sandwiches or toast.
If you liked this recipe, please leave a comment below & give us a 5 star rating. The recipe comment section is at the bottom of this page. Your comments help us to improve & clarify our recipe instructions. Moreover, it is ALWAYS great to hear from someone who has enjoyed our recipes!!
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