Copycat Outback Steakhouse Bread Recipe

Make the popular bread at home! This Copycat Outback Steakhouse Bread recipe is an easy way to enjoy the famous bread – no restaurant or steak dinner required!

We don’t go to sit-down restaurants very often, but when we do, it’s all about which restaurant has the best bread.

This recipe is nearly an exact copycat of one of my favorite breads – the honey wheat Bushman bread at Outback Steakhouse. The bread is soft with a light sweetness from the honey and the molasses.

This recipe is made with simple ingredients, and it tastes delicious. Serve it on a cutting board with a generous amount of butter for the total restaurant experience!

Ingredients and substitutions

• Warm water
• Vegetable oil
• Honey
• Molasses – I like to use robust molasses, but regular or light molasses will also work. I don’t recommend blackstrap molasses as it can be bitter.
• Whole wheat flour
• Cocoa powder – Dutch processed cocoa powder will also work and will give you a slightly darker loaf.
• Yeast
• Salt
• Bread Flour
• Oats

How to make copycat Outback Steakhouse bread

Step 1: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitter with a dough hook, stir together water, oil, honey, and molasses until mixed well.

Tip>> You can also mix this recipe up by hand in a large bowl. I don’t recommend using a hand mixer, though, for this one.

Step 2: Add wheat flour to wet ingredients.

Step 3: Add cocoa, yeast, and salt, and stir until blended. Allow mixture sit for 10 minutes.

Step 4: Stir in bread flour, one cup at a time, until dough clings to hook and almost clears the sides of mixer, about 3-4 minutes.

Step 5: Cover bowl with greased plastic wrap. Allow dough to rise in the bowl until doubled, about 30-60 minutes.

Step 6: Divide into 2 pieces. Cover each piece with greased plastic wrap, and let dough rest for 5 minutes.

Step 7: Shape pieces into loaves, and sprinkle with oats. Place each loaf in a greased 9×5-inch loaf pan.

Step 8: Let dough rise until doubled, about 30-60 minutes. Toward the end of the rising time, preheat oven to 350 F.

Step 9: Bake at for 30-40 minutes.

Bread baking tips

• Water temperature matters! It’s important to use water that’s the correct temperature. Water that’s too hot will kill the yeast, and water that’s too cool will give you a slower yeast activation.
  
  The best way to measure the temperature of the water is with a kitchen thermometer. If you don’t have a kitchen thermometer, the water should feel like warm bath water. If it’s too hot for you, it’s too hot for the yeast.
  
• Have a cool kitchen? If your kitchen is cool, it can slow the rising time.
  
  An easy way to create a perfect spot for your bread to rise it to turn your oven to preheat 350F for exactly 60 seconds. Then, turn the oven off. This will give your oven just a bit of warmth, and it helps to encourage the bread dough to rise.

Can I freeze this bread?

You can! This kind of bread freezes well.

Simply bake the bread as-directed. Then, let the bread cool to room temperature on a wire cooling rack.

Wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and place the wrapped loaf in a resealable freezer bag.

Storage

Outback bread should be stored in an airtight container at room temperature. It will keep for up to 4 days.

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