English Muffin Bread

A slice of this English Muffin Bread is the perfect accompaniment to your morning coffee. Full of nooks and crannies for holding warm butter and jam, this homemade bread recipe is easy enough for beginner bakers–with professional quality results! 

The only question is what will you spread on your English Muffin Bread?

Try adding a pat of this Easy Cinnamon Honey Butter for a heavenly treat.

I’ve been making English Muffin Bread since high school.
It’s just different enough from your everyday yeast breads that baking up a loaf to give to a friend feels extra special.
And one of the great things about this recipe is you can do just that because it makes TWO loaves!

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Traditional homemade English Muffins are made on the stove top.
After mixing together a dough you let it proof, rest, then cook in a griddle or skillet. 
The resulting muffins have big pockets of air creating the “nooks and crannies” that make English Muffins so dang delicious.

With this English Muffin Bread recipe there’s no stove top cooking required.
You just put the dough in a loaf pan, let it rise and bake.
Add a pat of butter to a slice of this bread after you’ve toasted or grilled it, and watch it seep into every nook and cranny.

It really does taste like English Muffins!

What you’ll need for this bread that tastes like English Muffins

• all-purpose flour
• dry yeast
• sugar
• salt
• baking soda
• milk
• water
• butter
• cornmeal

Pro Tips for English Muffin Loaf

• Grease your loaf pans with butter and cornmeal before adding the dough.
  This helps the crust get crispy and keeps the bread from sticking.
• I let my loaves rise in the oven before baking.
  Set your oven to 170 F, cover the loaves with a kitchen towel and pop them on the center rack of your oven.
• Make this dough with an electric mixer, when possible.
  You can start with the paddle attachment then change to the dough hook to knead the bread after adding the flour.
• This bread freezes wonderfully.
  Feel free to make a couple of loaves on the weekend and stash them in the freezer.
  To freeze, wrap them tightly in aluminum foil and then tightly in plastic wrap.
  To thaw, just place into the refrigerator the night before.

Do I toast this bread?

It’s entirely up to you whether or not you toast your English Muffin Loaf.
We enjoy it both ways.

When this bread is fresh from the oven, it really doesn’t need any toasting at all.
The outside is a bit crisp while the insides are soft and fluffy.
But wait until it cools to cut through it though as slicing when it’s warm can ruin the texture.

The second or third day,
I tend to pop slices in the toaster oven for a minute or two.
The warmth of a toasted slice helps the butter soften and melt a bit into the crevices.
I also like the extra crispiness that toasting adds.

Breads and Muffins

Once you learn how to make English Muffin yeast bread, you’ll be a bread baking fiend.

If you’re looking for breakfast muffin ideas, these Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins are guaranteed to please!
Plop a basket of these on your breakfast or brunch table to make the meal complete.

Sometimes you don’t always have time to wait for yeast to rise.
That’s where quick breads come in!
You’ll love our Double Chocolate Banana Bread and this fruity Pineapple Bread for something sweet.

Oh, and can we talk about these Cinnamon Roll Muffins? They’re the best parts of yeast rolls and muffins combined!

Yeast Bread Recipes

You can’t beat the scent of fresh baked yeast bread!

My family (as well as so many of my followers who’ve made it!) swears by this  Homemade Italian Bread Recipe too. It’s a fuss free recipe perfect for serving with just about any meal.
You can even slice it up to use for sandwiches and it’s great to serve with Lasagna and Chicken Cacciatore.

This No-Knead Bread is miraculous.
It’s as easy as mixing a dough together and walking away for a couple of hours while it rises.
Then it’s ready to bake, slice and enjoy.

Bookmark and pin these other bread recipes with yeast: 

• Best Pizza Dough
• Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls
• Rosemary Garlic Focaccia 
• Challah Bread
• Whole-Wheat Oatmeal Bread
• Copycat Olive Garden Breadsticks

Did I mention this English Muffin Bread recipe makes TWO loaves?
So you’ll have one to eat now and one to freeze for later!

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In the early days of this blog, I used to rate everything on a scale of 1 – 4 rolling pins (4 being the best). This English Muffin Bread earns 3 1/2 rolling pins every time I make it. Even after all these years,  the yeast bread till comes out just as beautifully as it did when I was in high school.

Funny how some things you can’t forget, huh?

This post was originally published 1/11/2012, and has been updated in format and with pictures on 9/29/1921.