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Yeast Breads

Yeast breads are breads that are leavened with instant yeast, active-dry yeast, or fresh yeast. Start to finish, yeast breads can be ready in under four hours, and many yeast-leavened breads require no kneading, making homemade bread a doable task any day of the week. This collection of recipes includes my mother’s hugely popular no-knead peasant bread, this widely adored overnight focaccia, this classic ciabatta, this easy pita bread recipe and more.

Ultimate Sheet Pan Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Breakfast Slab Sandwich

Just-baked rosemary focaccia.

Overnight, Refrigerator Focaccia = The Best Focaccia Bread Recipe

A zucchini, burrata, and anchovy pizza topped with fresh basil.

Summer Squash Pizza with Burrata & Basil

Freshly baked Challah on a board.

Holly’s Challah Recipe

The BEST Overnight Brioche Cinnamon Buns

Frosted hot cross buns.

Spiced Hot Cross Buns (Overnight or Not)

Detroit-style pizza topped with pepperoni and pickled jalapeños.

How to Make Homemade Detroit-Style Pizza

Just-baked soft pretzels on a cooling rack.

How to Make Fresh Soft Pretzels at Home

Just-baked three seed bread on a cooling rack.

No-Knead Three-Seed Bread

Two fresh loaves of peasant bread on a cooling rack, and the pyrex bowls they were baked in.

My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make

Just-baked pretzel rolls on a sheet pan.

No-Knead Soft Pretzel Rolls

Just baked margherita pizza.

Simple, 4-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Dough

A large sheet pan holding just baked pissaladière.

How to Make Pissaladière

Brioche buns on a baking sheet.

The Best, Easiest No-Knead Brioche Buns

Just-baked oatmeal maple loaf on a cooling rack.

No-Knead Maple Oat Bread

Sliced rye bread.

How to Make Homemade Rye Bread

This sandwich bread can be made entirely with whole wheat flour, but I like using a mix of all-purpose and whole wheat flours, which produce a soft, light, and sturdy loaf, one that appeals, most importantly, to both toddlers and adults alike. // alexandracooks.com

Walter Sands’ Soft Sandwich Bread

A slice of brioche bread on a cutting board.

Easy Brioche Loaf Recipe (No-Knead)

A bowl of cut open rounds of pita bread.

How to Make Fresh Homemade Pita Bread

Mushroom flatbread

Grilled Flatbread

Backyard Chickens & Thin-Crust Pizza

Breakfast Pizza For Dinner

Really, for me, the idea of a perfect dinner is this: several thin-crust pizzas (each topped differently), a salad (a homemade Caesar salad sounds nice at the moment) and a glass of wine. Cooking these pizzas in a wood-burning oven is the only way this recipe could be improved. Desperately want to make one of these adobe ovens I saw being built at San Francisco's Slow Food Nation. // alexandracooks.com

Pizza Pizza

A nectarine pizza cut into slices.

Nectarine Pizza with Fresh Basil and Reduced Balsamic