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Bread Making & Baking Ingredients

Here is a list of essential baking ingredients that you need to make great tasting homemade bread, banana bread, muffins, etc. Keep these ingredients as a permanent part of your pantry. This will allow you to quickly make a wide array of tasty homemade breads & sweet quick breads in order to feed your hungry family. If you are looking for packaged ingredient kits, please visit Bread Dad’s bread mixes page.

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Basic Pantry Items – These are some of the most essential baking & bread making ingredients that you should always keep in your pantry. For many more essentials, see the ingredient lists below this section.

  • Flour – All purpose flour, bread flour, gluten free flour, whole wheat flour, etc.
  • Salt – Sea salt, kosher salt, etc.
  • Sugar – Brown sugar, white sugar, confectionary sugar, etc.
  • Yeast – Bread machine yeast, instant yeast, active dry yeast, etc.
  • Chocolate Chips – Essential ingredient for many desserts & cookies.

Leavening Agents (i.e. Yeast & Baking Powder) – You should consider using FRESH leavening agents for all of your recipes. Old/stale ingredients (i.e. yeast or baking soda) can prevent your breads & banana breads from rising properly.

  • Baking Powder – We try to use aluminum free baking powder in our recipes.
  • Baking Soda – When making banana bread or cookies, you shouldn’t rely on the old baking soda that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for the past two years. You might not get optimal results. 🙂
  • Active Dry Yeast – This yeast is often used for oven-baked breads. It is not a bread machine yeast.
  • Bread Machine Yeast – New/active bread machine yeast is one of the the most essential bread machine ingredients!!! Dead yeast is not positive for bread making.
  • Instant Yeast – This type of yeast does not have to be dissolved in a liquid before using.
  • Sourdough Starter – This ingredient will help you to create delicious sourdough bread.

Flour & Related Ingredients – Flour is one of the most essential baking ingredients. Always keep extra flour in your pantry. Updated

  • All-Purpose Flour – All-purpose flour is commonly used for used for cakes, cookies, etc.
  • Almond Flour
  • Bran – Bran is an easy way to add fiber & roughage to your bread.
  • Bread Flour – Bread flour is usually the best flour to use for bread making.
  • Buckwheat Flour
  • Coconut Flour
  • Cornmeal – You can’t make delicious sweet cornbread muffins without cornmeal!
  • Flaxseed (Ground) – Ground flaxseed provides the extra fiber in our flaxseed bread.
  • Gluten Free Flour – Our amazing gluten free chocolate chip banana bread uses gluten free flour.
  • Multigrain Cereal – This cereal product is used for making multigrain bread.
  • Organic Flour
  • Potato Flour
  • Rice Flour
  • Rye Flour – Perfect for making rye bread sandwiches.
  • Self Rising Flour – Self rising flour already contains baking powder.
  • Whole Wheat Flour – Add some whole wheat fiber to your diet.

Oats & Oatmeal – Updated

  • Old Fashion Oatmeal – This adds large oat “flakes” to bread recipes, etc . Oat flakes are used to make oatmeal banana bread, oatmeal bread, etc.
  • One Minute Oatmeal
  • Rolled Oats
  • Steel Cut Oats

Sugar & Related Ingredients – Updated

  • Brown Sugar – Light or dark brown sugar.
  • Cane Sugar
  • Coconut Sugar
  • Confectioners Sugar – Powdered sugar
  • Honey
  • Molasses – People love or hate the flavor of molasses. We like it (in moderation) and molasses provides your bread with a great brown color.
  • Monk Fruit Sugar
  • Sanding Sugar – Different colored sugar. Used in baking.
  • Turbinado Sugar – Large crystal brown sugar
  • White Granulated Sugar – Probably the most used sugar in baking.

Salt – Updated

  • Coarse Salt
  • Himalayan Pink Salt
  • Iodized Salt
  • Kosher Salt
  • Salt Substitutes
  • Sea Salt

Fruit (Dried) – Dried fruit is used in many different recipes such as cranberry bread, golden raisin banana bread, chocolate chip cranberry cookies, etc. Updated

  • Apples
  • Apricots
  • Banana Chips
  • Blueberries
  • Cherries
  • Cranberries
  • Dates
  • Figs
  • Golden Raisins
  • Mangoes
  • Oranges
  • Pears
  • Pineapples
  • Prunes
  • Raisins
  • Strawberries

Chocolate & Related Ingredients – Chocolate is used in so many delicious recipes such as our M&M chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip banana bread muffins or white chocolate chip cookies. Updated

  • Baking Cocoa – Baking cocoa is often used to add a “chocolaty” color & flavor to cakes & cookies.
  • Butterscotch Chips – Butterscotch chips are essential for recipes such as butterscotch banana bread, butterscotch chocolate chip cookies, etc.
  • Caramel Chips
  • Chocolate Chunks – Larger bits of chocolate.
  • Dark Chocolate Chips
  • Milk Chocolate Chips
  • Mini Chocolate Chips – Smaller chocolate chips that we used to top our chocolate chip banana muffins.
  • M&M®s
  • Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • White Chocolate Chips

Milk & Related Ingredients

  • Instant Milk – Instant milk powder is a good backup in case you run out of milk in the refrigerator… while making a recipe!! 🙂
  • Buttermilk Powder – Make buttermilk at home with buttermilk powder. Great pantry item. Otherwise, you might have to run to the store to buy liquid buttermilk (and liquid buttermilk is often hard to find these days).
  • Soy Milk Powder – A non-dairy alternative to cow’s milk.

Nuts & Related Ingredients

  • Almonds
  • Cashews
  • Hazelnuts
  • Peanuts
  • Pecans
  • Walnuts

Oil (Vegetable)

  • Canola Oil
  • Corn Oil
  • Olive Oil
  • Vegetable Oil

Spices

  • Allspice
  • Black Pepper
  • Chives – We grow our own chives in our backyard for a truly natural & organic ingredient. Of course, if you want the easy route, there are dried chives too. 🙂
  • Cinnamon
  • Garlic Powder
  • Ginger – If there isn’t any ginger then there can’t be any gingerbread!!
  • Italian Seasonings – This is an essential spice for Italian Herb Bread. It is a mix of spices such as oregano, sage, rosemary and thyme.
  • Nutmeg
  • Onion Powder
  • Oregano
  • Red Pepper Flakes – If you want to add a little zing to your bread.
  • Rosemary – Rosemary is a very tasty herb used for making rosemary breads or Italian style breads.
  • Spice Racks with Spices – Racks full of commonly used spices.
  • Vanilla Extract – Vanilla extract is used in many recipes (such as banana breads and cookies).
  • White Pepper

Bread Mixes – Packaged ingredient kits

  • White Bread Mixes – Ingredient kits for Buttermilk White Bread, Country Farm White Bread, Potato White Bread, Sour Cream White Bread, etc.
  • Wheat Bread Mixes – Ingredient kits for Honey Wheat Bread, Buttermilk Wheat Bread, Honey Oat Bread, Multigrain Bread, etc.
  • European Style Bread Mixes – Ingredient kits for Pumpernickel, French Bread, Italian Country Bread, etc.
  • Other Bread Mixes – Ingredient kits for popular breads such as San Francisco Sourdough Style Bread, Deli-Style Rye Bread and California Raisin Gourmet Bread.

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I want to thank EVERYONE who leaves a comment in our recipe comment sections!! Beginners learn a lot from your fantastic baking tips. Below are some recent visitor comments. For even more great visitor tips & recipe variations, please visit Bread Dad’s Noteworthy Visitor Comments page.

  • Monica posted some delicious upgrade ideas to our No Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe – “Your eggless cookies tasted great (and the dough was exceptional…to eat, of course!) I added mini chips and oatmeal. I added a bit more milk and baking soda. I baked them for 14 minutes. They would have been great with coconut, also. I just seem to have to re-create….lol I had no eggs, so bless you for this recipe!!!! Yummy, yum, yum!!!! Thank you!!!“
  • Linda added some fantastic enhancements to our Bread Machine 100% Whole Wheat Bread – “OMyGoodness! I have been baking bread for over 40 years and this is one of the best recipes I’ve come across. I never thought bread machine bread could be so soft and yummy! I used white whole wheat flour, coconut milk, coconut sugar, vegan butter, and added 2 tablespoons of raw sunflower seeds and 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds. I can’t thank you enough!“
  • Dorlene posted a great variation to our Golden Raisin Banana Bread – “I followed your no-butter banana bread recipe exactly (using grapeseed oil) with two additions after the batter has been completely mixed: 1) 100 grams of chopped pecans and 2) 200 grams golden raisins soaked overnight in warm water, drained, and chopped in the Cuisinart (they’re invisible in the baked loaf but I think they contribute to its moistness)”…  “Thank you for creating this website and providing so much useful information. I especially appreciate your including metric conversions for all of the ingredients, ensuring accuracy”.
  • Leanne posted an amazing variation to our 2 Banana Bread Recipe – “Phenomenal recipe for two(medium) bananas. Followed the suggestions and added the extra milk, walnuts and fresh blueberries. I reduced the sugar to nearly 2/3 and the resulting bread was delicious! Perfect crumb, moisture and taste”… “PS: added cinnamon and a little ginger powder as well. It’s just yummy“
  • Lisa made some awesome crotons out of our Bread Machine All Purpose Flour Bread (Country White Bread) – “I simply cut them up into cubes the day after making the bread, I melted a 50/50 combination of butter with an olive/avocado blend oil in a skillet and put the bread cubes in to coat. It takes several batches. Then put them on a cookie sheet, sprinkled with sea salt and baked them on a low oven around 250 for about 45 minutes. I just watch them closely to get them dried but not too brown. I have stuck with the recipe as written and I am completely serious…they are amazing!“
  • Connie posted some great flour advice on our Bread Machine White Bread page – “This is an awesome recipe! I forgot to hit the dough setting so I let it finish in the Bread machine and it was great! I will be finishing it in the oven next loaf and see which way I like best. I would also like to share something I learned about measuring flour. Fluff the flour first and gently scoop and level your cup… If you’re scooping hard and packing the flour your measuring cup, you’re actually using more flour and your measurements aren’t right!“

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