Beer Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 12 oz beer
- OPTIONAL: 2 tsp garlic or onion powder
- OPTIONAL: 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375f. and butter or grease your baking pan of choice.
- Combine well, the dry ingedients. Stir in the beer and butter, but don't over mix.
- Fill your baking pan of choice 2/3 full. You may need to use 2 pans depending on their size. I used a muffin pan for this batch and it worked well!
- Optional: drizzle a little melted butter on top before baking.
- If using a traditional bread loaf pan, bake for 45 minutes, until a knife inserted into the loaf's center comes out clean.If using a standard size muffin tin, bake for 20 minutes, until a knife inserted into the muffin comes out clean.
- Once done, cool in pan for 3 to 5 minutes, then flip out to serve.
Notes
About Flour: honestly all kinds of flourseem to work just fine! And sift your flour before measuring, even if you only take a fork to the bag of flour and sift it by hand, it really does make a difference on the measuring and end result!
About Sugar: you can use up to 4 tbsp if you like it sweeter, but use at least 1 tbsp regardless.
About Butter: if you like softer loaves add the melted butter to the mix, if you like dryer loaf use butter to drizzle on top before baking and not inside the recipe.
About Beer : I think a lager or pilsner works best, but don't hesitate to experiment with what you have in fridg!
- About Flavor Ideas to try on different batches:
- add 1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles and 1/2 cup finely chopped dates
- add 1/2 cup feta crumbles and finely chopped greek olives
- add 1/4 cup finely diced jalapeno peppers and 1/2 cup sharp cheddar
- add 1/4 cup blue berry and serve with a drizzle of honey after baked