Stand Mixer Bread Recipe Whole Wheat

So many people have asked me how to make whole wheat bread using a KitchenAid stand mixer and I’m finally sharing how! I’m going to show you one way to grind your own flour to make this bread, but you certainlydon’t have to do that. Feel free to use any whole wheat flour you have on hand to make this recipe if you don’t want to grind your own.

I’ve been grinding my own flour and baking my own bread for about 12 years. Grinding your own flour is amazing because it produces a much healthier flour and for pennies on the dollar. I’ve used a few different machines to grind my flour and bake my bread over the years, but the question I’m always asked, is “How can I make your bread with my KitchenAid stand mixer?” I’m really excited to finally answer that question for you now.

The first thing you need to do to make this bread is grind your own flour. I used hard red wheat berries and ground 8 cups of berries. The MockMill held 4 cups of berries so I filled it up twice. A general rule of thumb is that one cup of wheat berries will yield around 1 1/4-1 1/3 cups of flour. I always want extra flour just to be safe because I’m never quite sure exactly how much flour I will need to bake my bread.

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Make sure to grind a cup of berries or cheap rice with your MockMill the first time you use it, and then throw that flour away.

Next, gather your ingredients, remove the MockMill from your mixer, and put the dough hook on. Add the wet ingredients to the mixer bowl first, then the dry ingredients. I also add my yeast last just in casemy water is a little too hot. I don’t want to kill the yeast. If you’d like your bread to rise better, make sure to add a dough enhancer. I’ve baked bread with and without dough enhancer, and it really does help the bread rise better and give it a more store-like and less dense texture.If you don’t like flat, dense bread, make sure to add the dough enhancer.

This next step is crucial. Turn your mixer on a low speed – around 4 – and let the ingredients start to form a dough. You’ll need to quickly add in more flour until a dough ball is formed and the sides of the mixer bowl look clean. Sometimes, I only have to add in 1/4 cup more flour. Sometimes I add in 2 or more cups. It just depends on so many factors. The best advice I can give you is that you’ve added enough flour when the sides of the bowl are cleanish. You’ll want to do add in the extra flour as quickly as you can, trying to get a dough in the first minute or so. This is why I grind extra flour at the beginning. It really irritates me when I run out of flour, and it’s especially problematic if you’re grinding flour using the mixer you’re also using to mix the dough.

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Once the side of your bowl is looking pretty clean, turn the mixer up to to higher speed (7-8) and let it knead the dough for about 4 minutes. You can see in the above picture that the bowl isn’t super clean, but it’s not super sticky either. There’s a fine line when it comes to adding flour. You don’t want your bread to have too much flour in it or it will be too dense. If the sides of your bowl are really really clean, you may want to add in a tablespoon or two of water to soften your dough up a little bit.

While your dough is kneading, oil a bread board and make sure your loaf pans have been greased and your oven is turned on to preheat. Turn the dough out on the bread board ,punch the dough down a few times to remove any air bubbles, separate it into two equal loaves, and put them in the bread pans to rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.

As I said earlier, I’ve been grinding my own flour for about 12 years now. It does have a learning curve, I don’t even know it all yet. If you’re thinking about buying a grain mill, here are some benefits and drawbacks of the MockMill.

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I hope you enjoyed this recipe and bread baking tutorial! I have lots of different bread recipes on my blog that you might want to check out too. My family really does love my bread. I’m also happy to answer any questions you may have on grinding your own flour!! Please ask away. More homemade bread recipes:

Michelle Marine is the author of How to Raise Chickens for Meat, a long-time green-living enthusiast, and rural Iowa mom of four. She empowers families to grow and eat seasonal, local foods; to reduce their ecological footprint; and to come together through impactful travel.Making fluffy, delicious whole wheat bread at home is easier than you think! This small batch whole wheat bread recipe is the ticket. It can be made in a KitchenAid or Bosch mixer or by hand!

If you are new to making whole wheat bread at home or you want a recipe that doesn’t yield 13 loaves, today’s your day.

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I’m walking you through how to make a smaller batch of whole wheat bread. It’s so easy. And it yields fluffy, soft, and delicious bread (yep, even with 100% whole wheat flour!).

I’ll be honest, my phase of life (with five hungry kids) isn’t conducive to small batch anything. Large batches are where its at with me and mine, especially with bread because the extra loaves freeze beautifully to be pulled out at a moment’s notice.

BUT, I also recognize not everyone’s life mirrors the chaos of my own. Many of you want to bake fewer loaves of bread at a time…either because of household numbers OR because you are mixing the dough by hand or with a KitchenAid mixer.

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But many of you over the years have written/commented to me that you want a recipe for a smaller batch of bread that works great in a KitchenAid mixer.

“Small batch” may mean different things to different people, but the recipe I’m sharing today is small batch in my book. It produces two perfect loaves of whole wheat bread.

The Best Whole Wheat Bread Recipe (this post has the original whole wheat bread recipe that I make most and what this small batch recipe is modified from; the full recipe yields 5-6 loaves and is best made in a heavy-duty mixer like a Bosch Universal – it’s too much dough for a standard KitchenAid)

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Bosch vs. KitchenAid (an in-depth look at these two stand mixers with some insight into why I use the Bosch for bread recipes; the comments on that post are helpful, too)

Wheat 101: Where to Buy, Different Types of Wheat, Etc. (quick overview – I almost always use hard white wheat berries and I grind them at home; if you are using storebought wheat flour, look for white wheat flour for a lighter color/textured loaf, otherwise hard red wheat flour can be used…the loaf will be darker in color and possibly a bit more dense)

Wheat Grinding 101: All About Wheat Grinders (I have a KoMo Wolfgang grain mill that I keep on my counter 24/7 and use for grinding wheat; these Harvest mills are a less expensive/great starter option)

How To Make Homemade Bread With The Stand Mixer

For the purposes of this tutorial, I am using my KitchenAid mixer, but this recipe can also be easily made in a Bosch stand mixer or by hand.

To start, add three cups whole wheat flour, 1 1/2 tablespoons yeast, and 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten* to the bowl of the mixer fitted with the dough hook.

– this ingredient helps develop the gluten in bread and will also help yield a nice, fluffy loaf (fyi: gluten can also be subbed for a tablespoon or so of each cup of all-purpose flour in white bread as a sub to using bread flour). Vital wheat gluten is often found in the baking aisle at the grocery store (near the flour). Many brands of vital wheat gluten have Vitamin C added which is just fine to use in this recipe or other bread recipes. I usually buy my gluten from Amazon – the Bob’s Red Mill brand or the Honeyville brand.

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Start mixing on low speed. I find with the KitchenAid that I need to use a rubber spatula to scrape the sides and bottom at this point in the recipe when the mixture is very wet.

Let this “sponge” mixture rest for 10-12 minutes until it is slightly puffy – some little bubbles may form at the surface.

Add 1/3 cup oil, 1/3 cup honey, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 tablespoon lemon juice, bottled or fresh (you can sub in a finely crushed 1000mg tablet of vitamin c instead of the lemon juice; one or the other is needed to

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