This soft Honey Wheat Bread is full of flavor with a hint of sweetness and a buttery golden crust! If you love this recipe, you'll also love my Homemade Butter Bread!

Honey Wheat Bread sliced on wooden cutting board.

You have to try this homemade Honey Wheat Bread! It's so delicious and perfect for sandwiches and toast! This is not your typical heavy, dense homemade wheat bread…it's soft and tender with a buttery golden crust and full of flavor with a hint of sweetness. This recipe is so simple and lots of fun for the kiddos to help make!

This is actually a copycat recipe for Nature's Own Honey Wheat Bread that I created for my family during the bread shortage of 2020. We love that bread so when I couldn't buy it at the store I decided to replicate it in my own kitchen. It tastes very similar and just as good! Be sure to also try my copycat recipe for Natures Own Butter Bread!

I use a stand mixer in my recipe but you can also use a hand mixer or just do it all by hand (which is sometimes way funner!). Don't get worried if your dough is sticking everywhere while you are kneading it - this is a moist, sticky dough which helps make the bread softer and less dense. Now let's get to baking!

Mixing honey wheat bread dough in an electric stand mixer

Punching down honey wheat bread dough in a mixing bowl.

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Baked honey wheat bread sliced and laying on a wooden cutting board.

Homemade Honey Wheat Bread

By: Christi

This soft Honey Wheat Bread is full of flavor with a hint of sweetness and a buttery golden crust! If you love this recipe, you'll also love my Homemade Butter Bread!

5 from 100 votes

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 30

Rising Time 1 30

Total Time 2 15

Course Bread

Cuisine American

Servings bread loaves (24 slices of bread)

Calories 157 kcal

Recommended Equipment

Ingredients

2 cups warm water (105-110°F)
¼ cup granulated sugar
4 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup honey
1 egg (beaten)
1 egg yolk (beaten)
2 Tablespoons canola oil
2 teaspoons salt
4 cups whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons olive oil (for greasing)
3 ice cubes (for baking)
2 Tablespoons salted butter (softened, for brushing)

Instructions

In a stand mixer bowl, pour in warm water and sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for 10 minutes (until foamy).
Attach dough hook and turn mixer on low. Add all-purpose flour (one cup at a time), honey, egg, egg yolk, canola oil, and salt until combined. Slowly add whole wheat flour (one cup at a time).
Once a dough ball has formed, knead dough with stand mixer on speed level "2" for 5 minutes. The top of the dough will pull away from the bowl but the bottom will not. (This is a moist, sticky dough.)
Remove bowl from mixer, add 1 Tablespoon olive oil to bottom of bowl, and toss dough around in oil until completely covered. Cover bowl with greased plastic wrap and a dishtowel. Let dough rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans with olive oil and place aside.
Punch dough down and turn out onto a floured surface. Divide dough in two equal halves. Using a rolling pin, roll each half into a rectangle about 9x13 inches and roll up starting from the short end. Pinch seams together and place in greased loaf pans (seam-side down).
Cover each loaf with greased plastic wrap and a dishtowel. Let rise for 30 minutes or until dough has risen ½ to 1 inch above tops of loaf pans.
Uncover loaves and place in a 350°F oven. Throw 3 ice cubes in the bottom of the oven and quickly shut the oven door. Bake for 30 minutes or until internal temperature of bread reaches 190°F. Cool on a wire rack and brush tops of loaves with softened salted butter.
Allow bread to cool completely (at least 1 hour) before slicing.
Slice, serve, and enjoy!

Notes

Storage

Loaves can be stored in bread bags or containers for about 4 days at room temperature or frozen for up to 3 months; make sure to thaw bread for at least 1 hour before serving.

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Nutrition

*Nutritional facts are calculated by third party sources and are not always accurate. If you are on a special diet, we highly recommend you calculate these values personally.

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How to Make Homemade Honey Wheat Bread

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