Comments on: How to Make Whole Wheat Bread Tutorial

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:52:26 +0000

yah, my loaves weren’t pretty either!! I thought I did something wrong. but i watched her video again, and in the beginning her loaf looked like mine. I just need to mail my loaves to laura to make them pretty lol.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:12:10 +0000

Yumm! I just had a bite of this bread after pulling it out of the oven 5 min. ago. So good! I made the cinnamon variety and through some raisins into mine as well. This is my first time baking bread and it was a major success! The video and pictures really helped me, just written instructions can be really overwhelming when you have no clue what your results should look like. At first I thought I was doomed, my dough looked nowhere as pretty as yours and was falling and flaking apart all over the place but at the end it came together and my loaves looked pretty official when I pulled them out of the oven. I’m excited to have my boyfriend try this, hes convinced he doesn’t like whole wheat and I think this will change his mind. Thank you!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:52:00 +0000

Laura!!! I wish you could come to my house and show me how to make this bread. I did another 2 loaves over the weekend. My dough never gets smooth like yours. It’s kinda like in pieces? Then I mix it into a ball, and just looks like a mess. I dunno, but maybe the next time you make bread you can make a video of the beginning of the bread making? maybe I stop mixing too soon or something.

I kind of gave up on it on Saturday. I barely kneaded it, it was so wet (I added too much water) and kept on adding flour (when I was kneading it, can we say I used OVER half a 5 lb bag!!!!) and it just wasn’t working. BUT I did end up baking it, (still rose and everything lol) and it still tastes good. I guess bread is VERY forgiving!! lol

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:52:21 +0000

Hey Melanie!

I used KA’s wheat too. I had a hard time as well, and I had just mixed the 3 cups. I just added more water, and continued to add the flour. I figured it had to do w/the climate. I now know what everyone was talking about “dense” bread. It was a little dense. But I toasted it, and it
was aok!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:11:27 +0000

Thanks Laura!!! I wasn’t so sure earlier.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:56:24 +0000

Yay! Good job. I knew you’d do great!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:24:16 +0000

Well, i couldn’t wait any longer lol. The crust is a little dry, but the inside is pretty moist! So I guess I did aok for the first time making bread!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:57:26 +0000

Well bread is out of the oven, and cooling. the one loaf cracked (the honey WW one) the cinnamon looks pretty lol. Hopefully I’ll get better at shaping them. They look a little weird lol.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:22:12 +0000

Yeah I wasn’t sure, but figured it would be ok to add water.
The crackly thing freaked me out lol. I ended up rolling both loaves out, one I made the honey wheat (half all-purpose, half whole wheat), the other is the cinnamon swirl. I wasn’t about to try and
shape a loaf on top of making bread for the first time lol.

I have to say, the kneading part wasn’t as scary as I thought it was
going to be! Both loaves are in the oven as I type, so I’ll let you know when they are done!

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:14:03 +0000

Yeah, most will have to tweak the recipe a bit like you did based on different kinds of flours, different climates, etc. The crackly or smooth thing? Same thing…yours is going to look different than mine. I’m sure yours is just fine. Can’t wait to hear how it turns out!