12 hours ago, Kim Shook said:The bread machine bread that I am making for giving at Christmas is Holiday Bread. This is what it looks like:
It's hard to tell from the picture, but the bottom half is very dark, though not burned. I baked it on the lightest crust setting. I looked back at last year and to me it looks the same. But when I looked at a picture of a bread I made back in 2016, there was no darkness. No difference in sugar amounts, so that isn't the issue. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening? Is my breadmaker just so old that it needs replacing? Thanks for your help!
What you're seeing is one of the many reasons I don't bake in my bread machine. It's so much easier to control when I just use my oven and my results are a lot better. The machine is so much easier to use for mixing and kneading and I don't have to wash my big mixer bowl, beater and hook. The machine cleans up in no time.
