Artisan Bread Made Simple at Home!
The KitchenAid Bread Bowl is an attachment that fits KitchenAid 4.5-5qt. Tilt-Head Stand Mixers. It enables you to mix, rise and bake delicious bread – all right in the bowl! Simple!
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Why Bake in a Bread Bowl?
Much like baking in a covered dutch oven or a baking cloche – the covered baking environment creates a “steam oven” environment similar to those in professional bakeries. The steam baking gives your finished loaf that professional crisp crust and moist chewy interior texture. (The bowl is removed during the final minutes of baking to brown up the crust.)
KitchenAid Bread Bowl Recipes:
Here are 5 delicious bread recipes from KitchenAid for your KitchenAid Bread Bowl Attachment:
I have made them all and they are scrumptious! I’ve added my personal notes. Just click the download button to download and print the recipes.
- I recommend baking all these loaves on a parchment round – extra insurance against sticking.
- I also recommend using a digital kitchen scale to weigh (at least) your flour for the recipes.
Tina’s Notes – Cinnamon Roll Bread: The recipe calls for 2T. heavy cream in the instructions but doesn’t include it in the ingredients – so make sure you have heavy cream on hand. Also, for the icing, you can substitute vanilla extract for vanilla paste.
Tina’s Notes – Whole Wheat Seed Bread: I had to add extra flour to the recipe as it was very wet. I recommend starting with adding 1 1/4 water to start, then adding more as necessary. Also, this recipe calls for sesame seeds in the instructions but doesn’t include them in the ingredient list – so make sure to have sesame seeds on hand.
Tina’s Notes – Cranberry Oat Walnut Bread: This dough is very wet, and that was fine, it turned out beautifully. It makes a pretty large loaf. I greased the edge and up 2-3 inches of the bowl, just in case the loaf baked against the edge of the bowl.
Tina’s Notes – Chocolate Cherry Rye Bread: This dough was also a large, wet loaf. I greased the edge and up 2-3 inches of the bowl, just in case the loaf baked against the edge of the bowl. The rye flavor is not very strong – has a nice balance and was delicious! Would be great with coffee or brunch!
Tina’s Notes – Everyday Artisan Boule: This is a delicious and really simple dough – Just 3 ingredients + water! I’ve made with both all-purpose and bread flour. The bread flour gives slightly better texture and taste. This bread is really good sliced and toasted days after baking.
Is there a sourdough recipe for the breadbowl?
Hi Mary! I don’t have a specific sourdough bread recipe at this time – but the bowl can accommodate recipes with up to 3.5 cups of flour (makes about a 1- 1.5 lb. loaf of bread). So if you have a recipe you like that fit’s those sizes, I’d give it a go!
Tina – I wish you would put these recipes on the QVC website and include them in with the bowl. I made my first loaf in the bowl and it came out fine – but I’m not sure how much I can put in the bread bowl and need guidance on that. Some of us aren’t baking whizzes and appreciate some hand holding in getting used to new products like this.
Hi Bill – I agree – a recipe booklet included with the product is a great idea! I promise I have and will keep advocating for that with lots of our products. In the meantime – I provide as many recipes as I can here. So, KitchenAid says we can use bread recipes with up to 3.5 cups flour in the bread bowl. With larger loaves of bread, I rub a little oil on the inside lower part of the bowl, just in case the bread comes in contact with it during baking. There is one recipe that came packed in with the bowl and I have it linked here on this post as well – it’s the Boule recipe – really love this recipe – it’s simple and absolutely delicious! I like to make mine with bread flour. Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Thank you for these recipes for the KitchenAid Bread Bowl! I just got one and can’t wait to try them out.
A quick note, on the Cinnamon Roll Bread recipe, you are missing the 200g of powdered sugar for the icing in step 6.
I appreciate your conversion from the metric to the US measurements too, though I am an ardent fan of the food scale for all the dry ingredients for the past few years. I’m glad to see you advocate for that in your notes.
Thanks Cheryl!
For the whole wheat seed bread, can it be made without all of the seed ingredients? We just want a simple wheat bread recipe.
Also, can I use the recipes I have for my bread machine?
Thank you
Hi Dina – I’m sure you can make without all the seeds. Also – I made the Boule recipe with part whole wheat flour and part AP flour. Everyone liked it, just didn’t rise quite as high. I would think as long as you don’t go over 3.5 cups flour, you should be good. I always rub a little oil on the inside edge of the bowl (I go up about 3 inches) before baking in case the bread rises and touches the edge of the bowl while baking.
Hi Tina,
So I tried making the basic recipe today. It was a disaster! The dough never became a ball as demonstrated in the Kitchen Aid Australia video. It was just a blob of sticky dough. Does the flour have to be room temperature? I used bread flour, was that a mistake? Any help would be most welcomed.
Thank you!
Hi Dina – My dough is more blob than ball when I make the basic recipe. You can always sprinkle in another tablespoon or two of flour if it’s just too loose. You could also try adding the water gradually and stop when it pulls together. By the time it rises the first time – it usually builds more structure. When the recipe says sprinkle with flour – for the rising and the turning out – I do so liberally. I’ll have to make a video – would probably be helpful.
Thanks, Tina. I searched and searched, Finally found a short Crate and Barrel video where it suggessted 5 to 6 minutes of kneading. It did the trick. A step by step video would be most helpful for us newbies. Loved my first loaf!
Hello. I’ve made the classic bread boule multiple times and I believe there is an error in the recipe (also in the recipe that comes with the bread bowl with lid). The amount of salt says 1 tsp (8gm). However, 8 grams is actually 1.4 teaspoons. I round up to 1 1/2 teaspoons and I think it tastes much better! Also, I live in South Carolina and found that I needed to add more flour due to the humidity. The amount varies depending on the day. I usually add by the tablespoon until I see it start to come together but is still sticky. Hope this helps!
Thanks so much for your thoughts Carmen! Happy Baking!
Can you use bread bowl for other things? Like making a cake or frosting?
Yes for sure – functions as an extra bowl as well!
Can you provide a recipe for pizza dough using the bread bowl?
Hi Annette! Are you looking to bake the pizza dough in the bread bowl? They would end up being mini-type pizzas as the diameter of the baking surface of the bread bowl is about 8-10-inches (don’t have mine in front of me at the moment to measure)
I wasn’t thinking of baking the dough in the bread bowl, just mixing. I assume any recipe for the dough would work? I don’t have one and thought maybe you had one to mix and rise in the bowl.
Hi Annette – I do have some favorite Pizza Dough recipes! Single Pizza Crust (small batch) Easy Homemade Pizza Dough (Makes 1, 12-inch Pizza) Lager Batch/2 pizzas Stand Mixer Pizza Dough (Makes 2, 12-inch Pizzas) Grilled Pizza Dough Pizza Dough for Grilling Have fun! Let me know if you have questions!
Why does KitchenAid not have a recipe booklet for such an innovative addition to their product line?
Hi there ! Will this bread bowl fit on my 6qt kitchen aid mixer ?
Hello; I have made the Classic Boule recipe several times but feel that there is an error in the ingredient list. The recipe calls for 6 grams or 2 1/4 teaspoons of instant yeast. When I measure 2 1/4 teaspoons it is 8 to 9 grams of instant yeast. What is the correct measurement in weight as I prefer to bake by weight for greater accuracy. Thank you for your reply.
That is a great question Janet! That recipe comes from KitchenAid – so I don’t know for sure. I definitely weight the flour – but I generally use the packets of yeast which are 2 1/4 teaspoons per pack. Sorry that’s not exactly what you asked!
Just made my first Boule in the Bread Bowl. It is just GORGEOUS!! Can’t wait to eat it! Thank you Tina for the recipes list here.
Carla Lund, Lund Travels
I would love a recipe for a cheesy bread made in the bread bowl! Thanks
That sounds delicious! – you can try other recipes you find – the guidelines state to look for recipes that are under 3.5 cups flour – (should make approx. a 1 – 1.5 pound loaf) Take care!
Attempted the wheat bread today…it was a disaster. Not sure what I did wrong, but I had to add almost twice the flour to even get it to hold together instead of looking like soup. Then, after the lengthy rise, most of it stuck to the bowl. The loaf ended up half the size and was hard as a rock.
Hi Jamie – Yes, I hear you – per my notes I had to add flour to this KitchenAid recipe as well. For extra insurance, I grease the first few inches up the side of the bowl in case the bread rises too much. Let me know if I can answer any questions. Take Care!
Hi Tina
Does it have to be instant yeast. My instant yeast is a month past the Best By date but I have plenty of regular yeast packets. Would they work
I tend to use them somewhat interchangeably. If I’m using regular – I will dissolve in the liquid. Sometimes the regular will have a little bit longer rise time too.
I love the bowl and the recipe, along with your directions. The one question I have is that my bread tends to be a tiny bit dense, how would I have bigger air pockets and holes inside the bread? I’ve used both bread flour and all-purpose, buried the water a tiny bit as well. I don’t see terribly much difference no matter what I do!
Hello! Thanks for reaching out. I would say generally when my bread/rolls turn out too dense – I needed to let it rise more. You have to go more by looks for rising time, the times recipes state are just guidelines as there are a lot of factors that can affect the rising (room temp, dough temp etc). Hope that helps!