Hearty oatmeal wheat bread for all the toppings you desire!
Happy weekend! And happy birthday to ME! I know bread isn’t typically the way to celebrate birthdays, but I had some birthday cake ‘issues’ so no birthday cake post. Yet.
While this bread isn’t exactly birthday themed, I think it is totally birthday worthy. As in, it’s so good it’s something you would actually want to eat on your birthday. Because if you haven’t heard, you only eat birthday-worthy things on your birthday. Cake for breakfast? Definitely birthday-worthy. Oatmeal wheat sandwich bread slathered with Nutella or mashed avocado? Absolutely birthday worthy. Oh and speaking of mashed avocado on toasted bread…one of my favorite things, ever. I’ve been taking it to a whole new level this week by putting an over-easy egg on top of it and calling it dinner. In.cred.ible.
This bread has also become one of my favorite things ever. It’s really not difficult to make, just requires a little time, and yields a hearty, healthy loaf of bread that makes one mean sandwich. Open faced is my preference, but you go ahead and close it up if that’s your thing. Either way, it makes any sandwich, on any day of the year, birthday worthy.
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Ingredients
- 1 packet active dry yeast 2 1/4 teaspoons
- 1 1/4 cups warm milk
- 1 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 2 cups bread flour
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar or honey
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, or in the bowl of an electric mixer, combine yeast and milk, stirring to mix. Let sit 10 minutes until foamy.
- Add flours, oats, butter, brown sugar or honey, and salt and mix on medium-low speed until a "shaggy" dough forms.
- Increase speed of mixer to medium and knead for 5-6 minutes, until well formed, smooth ball forms. If dough is still pretty sticky, add a couple more tablespoons of flour until it is smooth.
- Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover and allow it to rest for 1 hour; it'll become quite puffy, though it may not double in bulk.
- Remove dough and form into a log, then place into a well-greased 9x5" loaf pan. Let rise for 90 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake in preheated oven 35-40 minutes, until golden on top.
- Let cool.
- Slice and enjoy!
Welcome to greens & chocolate! I'm Taylor and am so excited that you stopped by! I'm a Minnesota girl in my 20's who's loving life with my husband Marc, our son Lars, and our Golden Retriever Maddie. I love cooking healthy meals, but it's essential that I have my dessert. All after a hot yoga class or a run, though! It's all about moderation here at greens & chocolate. 
That looks amazing. I don’t know about it taking the place of birthday cake –> can anything really take it’s place? But it is good to eat while waiting for birthday cake!!! Happy Birthday – hope you have a great day.
I am loving this bread! I’ve been meaning to try my hand on sandwich bread leately….this might be the one.
Yayyy! Happy Birthday! I agree that birthdays should only have birthday-worthy things being eaten and this oatmeal wheat sandwich bread looks awesome!
Hope you had a great birthday 🙂 This bread recipe looks delicious in the meantime
This looks delish! Any idea if it could be made in a bread machine? I don’t have a good mixer…just a cheap hand onw, and afarid bread dough would burn it out!
Yes I think it could! You would just put all of the ingredients in the bread machine, program it for manual or dough, then 10 minutes before end of the second kneading cycle, just check it and make sure it doesn’t need any more water or flour. It should be soft and smooth.
Happy Birthday! My birthday is March 23 too!
Happy belated birthday! I would totally celebrate mine with a loaf of bread that looked this delicious. 🙂
You’ve got it right spreading mashed avocados on bread!