My Honey Wheat bread recipe is sweetened with honey and your house will smell amazing while your Bread Machine is doing all the work.

Freshly made honey wheat bread, soft and full of flavor always draws a crowd at the dinner table.

Honey wheat bread sliced with butter and honey

This honey wheat bread recipe is for your bread machine. It’s my Outback Honey wheat bread copycat recipe so you will want to print this one and hang it on the side of your refrigerator to use often.

My family loves this homemade bread with their dinner. It’s delicious with melted butter and honey slathered on top for breakfast too.

Making bread machine bread is a lot like making a dump cake. You simply add all of the ingredients into your bread machine and turn it on. A little while later, you have fresh bread. The best part is there was no kneading or rising and waiting involved.

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ingredients for making Outback copycat Honey wheat bread in the bread machine

Ingredients Needed to Make Bread Machine Honey Wheat Bread

1 ½ cups warm water, warmed to 110 degrees
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
½ cup honey
2 cups bread flour
2 cups wheat flour
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
1 teaspoon salt
2 ¼ (1 packet) teaspoons active dry yeast

Equipment Needed

This is a bread machine recipe so you will need one of those. Scroll down for the oven method for rolls instead of loaf bread.

My favorite bread machine ever is this Cuisinart Bread Maker. It’s my third bread machine in about 24 years and my favorite. We tend to wear out a bread maker at my house.

How To Make Outback Copycat Honey Wheat Bread

ingredients for honey wheat bread in a bread machine pan

Step 1

Place all of the ingredients into your bread machine in the exact order of the ingredients list.

Step 2

Set your bread machine to the wheat bread cycle and press start.

Go enjoy your day doing something you love while your bread machine does all the work on this homemade bread recipe.

Step 3

Once the cycle is complete and your fresh bread is done, allow it to cool for about 10 minutes before removing it from the pan.

Honey wheat bread ready the bread machine

Remove from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.

Need a good bread slicing knife? Try this one. You can also use it to slice cake and fruits.

bread machine bread cooling on a wire rack

How To Make Rolls or Use A Loaf Pan for Oven Baked Bread

When making rolls or if you want oven-baked bread using your loaf pan, follow these instructions.

Set your bread maker to use the dough cycle or follow the manufacturer’s instructions for making dough.

Once the dough cycle is complete, punch the dough down and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface.

Divide the dough into two loaves or twelve rolls.

Place on greased pans and allow to rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 24 minutes.

Honey wheat bread on a wood cutting board

Honey Wheat Bread Recipe

Yield: 2 loaves

This Outback copycat honey wheat bread recipe is for your bread machine. Instructions included for making rolls in the oven.

Ingredients

1 ½ cups water, warmed to 110 degrees
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
½ cup honey
2 cups bread flour
2 cups wheat flour
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
1 teaspoon salt
2 ¼ (1 packet) teaspoons active dry yeast

Instructions

Place all of the ingredients into your bread machine in the exact order of the ingredients list.
Set your bread machine to the wheat bread cycle and press start.
Once the cycle is complete and your fresh bread is done, allow it to cool for about 10 minutes before removing it from the pan.
Remove from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.

How To Make Rolls or Use A Loaf Pan for Oven Baked Honey Wheat Bread

When making rolls or if you want oven-baked bread using your loaf pan, follow these instructions.

Set your bread maker to use the dough cycle or follow the manufacturer’s instructions for making dough.

Once the dough cycle is complete, punch the dough down and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface.

Divide the dough into two loaves or twelve rolls.

Place on greased pans and allow to rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 24 minutes.

Copycat Honey Wheat Bread Recipe