It’s a new way to bake quick breads!
I had no idea that this was an actual thing. Did you?? I came across this idea here and am ever so grateful.
I’ve been baking potatoes in a crock pot for several years, but I did not know a person could bake quick bread this way too. (And also yeast bread, but I’m trying to perfect that idea before posting about it. You can look forward to that…as will I if I can ever figure out how to do it right.)
This is going to change how we eat this summer. No more avoiding bread on hot days since I never want to turn on the oven. However, since I only have one crock pot, I can obviously only do one loaf of bread at a time. This is a little bit limiting for my family of huge eaters. But all I’ll have to do to remedy this is scramble up a bunch of eggs and make a blender (or two) full of smoothies to go with our loaf, and we’ve got a meal.
I’ve tried this idea with two different types of quick breads – Chocolate Chip Bread and Snickerdoodle (it was a recipe experiment). Both worked great! This leads me to believe that any quick bread recipe will work. (Actually, I’m not sure about gluten free breads. Anyone have experience with this?)
How to Bake Quick Breads in a Crock Pot
1. Turn your crock pot onto “hi” to preheat.
2. Mix your quick bread as usual and put it into a buttered loaf pan. (I used glass as I’m not sure about using a stone in my crock pot. Any have experience with this?)
3. Wad up two pieces of tin foil and place them at the bottom of your crock pot. This will offer some space under your bread pan which will help your bread bake better.
4. Set your loaf pan into your crock pot. (Mine is actually barely the right size, so it didn’t fit all the way in thus negating the need for wads of foil. As you can see in the pictures above, my pan sat on the edge of the top of the crock. It worked perfectly.)
5. Place the lid on your crock pot slightly off centered so as to allow a little bit of steam to escape during baking.
6. Leave the bread to bake in the crock pot for about 2 hours. You’ll be able to watch it baking from the outside into the middle, making it quite easy to see when it has finished baking.
How excited are you to learn this fun trick?! What quick bread are you going to try baking in your crock pot first? I’m asking because I know you are going to try this right away, this minute, today, as soon as you stand up.
I wish I had seen this earlier – I just made banana bread! I’ll have to try it soon though.
I need to make banana bread but it’s too hot to turn on the oven. This is the perfect solution! Thanks!!
Try the chickensintheroad.com website gor making yeast bread in a crock pot. I remember a black out she had a few years ago where she worked on this idea. Good luck!
I am so excited to see this post and can’t wait to try this! My uncle gave me my first Crock Pot when I rented my first house many years ago on my 19th birthday. It had a recipe book that included bread recipes and a bread pan insert that came with it. It was a round metal cylinder that goes inside the pot. So is like baking your bread in a vertical position rather than horizontal. It made fantastic bread. I wonder if you can still get those inserts and recipes. I no longer have mine.
Thanks for sharing!! I am going to try it asap, BUT, you got me thinking about another option for baking bread. I have a cool item that I use all the time to keep hot food hot and cold food cold when travelling or picnicing or when I am away from the house. It is called a “wonder box” cooker. It is like a non-electric crock pot. You have to bring your pot/pan and food up to the cooking temperature and then put it in the box, cover it and a while later the food is cooked. Mostly we cook our potatoes in our cooker and keep casseroles hot. I did try a roast once and it worked great, but took all day. I am a chicken to try new things because I am so afraid of wasting…but you helped me today. I am going to try adding water to the bottom of the crockpot when it’s pre-heating, and after the bread has been in there for a while, put it in the wonderbox and see if it bakes. There are directions for baking bread in the wonderbox, but I haven’t braved them yet. THANKS!!!
http://www.iwillprepare.com/cooking_files/Wonder_Box.htm
You are one of my favorite people in the whole world today! Thanks so much for this idea. It is sooooooooo hot in Kansas right now! Been in a cookie mood- but haven’t wanted to turn the oven on- chocolate chip quick bread in the crockpot to the rescue!
I have this Oster countertop oven, basically just a larger toaster oven. I use it all the time and LOVE it! I can bake two loaves of bread in it at one time or warm up dinner etc. It doesn’t heat the house up at all and even shuts off on a timer so I can put the bread in to bake and go to bed. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003Z34OME/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1435339176&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=oster+countertop+oven&dpPl=1&dpID=415%2BMF9ZITL&ref=plSrch
This is a fantastic idea! I have one more jar of pumpkin purée in the freezer, so that’s what I’ll try this method with – our favorite pumpkin bread recipe. I imagine the wafting smell is stronger than when baking in the oven too ????. I’m headed to the freezer now.
This is brilliant! I keep buying bread in the summer because it is too hot to bake. Problem solved!
I have a quick bread recipe with milk in it. Can that go in the slow cooker? Thank you!!
I believe so!