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Outback Steakhouse Bread

Make the popular Outback Steakhouse bread with this copycat recipe requiring no fancy equipment or restaurant trip. Soft, chewy, with a crisp crust and dark brown color without any funky ingredients!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24 servings
Calories: 145kcal
Author: Eden

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups warm water 105-110 degrees F
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • cup molasses
  • 2 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoon white granulated sugar
  • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 ½ tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoon instant granulated coffee
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast (1 package)
  • 2 ½-3 cups bread flour possibly extra if hand kneading
  • Cornmeal or Old fashioned oats for dusting

Instructions

  • In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, mix water, oil, molasses, sugar and honey together well.
  • Add wheat flour, cocoa, coffee, salt, and yeast to the bowl, stir until well incorporated, then let sit for 5-10 minutes to let yeast proof.
  • Incorporate bread flour 1 cup at a time, until dough is clinging more to itself and your wooden spoon (or to the dough hook, if using a mixer). If hand kneading, place your dough onto a well-floured work surface and knead for 5 minutes, or until dough is no longer sticky and is smooth.
  • Place into a large bowl greased with oil and cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let rise for 25-60 minutes, or until dough has doubled in size.
  • When doubled, punch down and divide into two loaves, place into greased 9x5 loaf pans that have cornmeal at the bottom or shape into 6-8 smaller loaves, place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper that has cornmeal sprinkled on it.
  • Sprinkle the loaves with oats, then cover loaves loosely with plastic wrap and let rise until loaves have doubled, about 30-45 minutes.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Bake for 25 minutes (for the small loaves) to 35-40 minutes (for the large loaves in the loaf pans), until the loaves sound hollow when you gently tap the top of the crust with your knuckles.
  • Take loaves out of oven and take loaf pan loaves out of their pans to rest and cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes to ensure the crust isn't soggy. Let small loaves rest on a wire rack, otherwise you'll have a soggy crust.
  • Serve with honey butter.

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcal