Honey Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread in your KA

Honey Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread for Your KitchenAid Mixer (Makes Two Loaves)

Ingredients

• • 4 cups all purpose flour (approx)
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 cup quick-cooking oats
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 and ½ tsp instant dry yeast
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 egg whites
  • oatmeal

Directions

1. Place 5 cups flour (save out one cup of AP), oats, salt, and yeast in mixer bowl.
2. Attach bowl and dough hook.
3. Turn to speed 2 and mix for 30 seconds.
4. In saucepan, combine water, honey, and butter.
5. Heat to 120°F to 130°F.
6. On Speed 2, slowly add warm liquids to flour mixture, mixing for about 1 minute.
7. Add eggs; mix an additional 1 minute.
8. Still on Speed 2, add remaining flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until dough clings to hook and cleans sides of bowl, about 3 minutes.
   
9. Knead on Speed 2 for 7-10 minutes or until dough is smooth and elastic.
10. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top.

1. Cover; let rise in warm place, until doubled, about 1 hour.
2. Punch dough down.
3. Divide dough in half.
4. Shape each half into a loaf.
5. Place each loaf into a greased 8 1/2x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch bread pan.
6. Cover; let rise in warm place till doubled, about an hour.
7. Combine 1 TBSP water and egg white. Brush tops of loaves with mixture.
8. Sprinkle with oatmeal.
9. Bake at 375°F for 40 minutes.
10. Remove from pans and cool on wire racks.

Karen I have this copied to my favorites and I'm get a try it real soon. I have all the ingredients. Do you think I could get away with using King Arthur bread flour instead of all-purpose flour? If not I have some hotel and restaurant flour AP that I could use. But I have a lot of KABF that I need to use up.

I think the King Arthur bread flour would work just great...I use AP because it is all I can get here, although different brands seem to vary in amount of gluten, and some of the flour I buy here is very similar to bread flour. The original recipe did not use any whole wheat - I made that change myself. Good luck with your bread baking...hope you enjoy.