BEER BREAD MASON JAR RECIPE WITH FREE LABELS
If you are looking for an easy and delicious bread recipe, you’re in luck! Beer bread is just that. It’s super easy to make and doesn’t involve temperamental yeast or letting dough rise. It’s as easy as dumping all of your ingredients together and baking right away. The result is a nice chewy slightly sweet bread that is perfect to go along side any meal.
My family has been making this bread for years. It’s become one of our favorites! I often bring it to Thanksgiving dinner and when you put the dry ingredients into a mason jar with cute labels, you have the perfect hostess gift! If you follow our blog, you probably have noticed our free Thanksgiving beer bread hostess gift labels in our previous post. Hop over there to snag these cute labels for free along with the matching wine label tags. Combine the two and you have a gift basket to delight any hostess.
In this post, we are sharing the actual recipe and the instructions for making a mason jar beer bread hostess gift.
Not only is this bread easy to make, but it only involves a few ingredients (self-rising flour, sugar, salt, one bottle of beer, and 2 tablespoons of melted butter). That’s only 5 very affordable ingredients most of which you probably already have on hand. Throw it all together and you have bread that tastes amazing. You can brag that you made bread!
If you don’t drink beer, don’t worry, the bread does not taste like beer and the alcohol cooks out. So anyone can enjoy this bread! The beer is needed to help the dough rise while baking.
To get started, gather your ingredients. Make sure you get self-rising flour and not all purpose flour… it is different and for this recipe you must have the self-rising flour. You can find self-rising flour in the baking section of any grocery store. Self-rising flour is just flour that is mixed with baking powder. The natural yeast from the beer reacts with the sugar in the recipe and causes your bread to rise while baking.
You will mix your self-rising flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl and combine. Then, slowly add in the beer and stir to mix. Your dough will be sticky and will have some lumps in it. Pour it into a greased pan and bake. Reserve your butter to pour over the top and bake more at the end.
You will bake your bread for 40 minutes and then pour the melted butter on top and bake for an additional 10 minutes or so. The butter helps brown up the top of your bread. You can find the ingredients and instructions below!
INGREDIENTS:
3 Cups Self-Rising Flour (not all purpose flour)
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
12 oz Beer (use any beer you have on hand)
2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
DIRECTIONS:
Grease a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan and set aside
In a mixing bowl, mix together self-rising flour, sugar, and salt
Slowly pour in beer and mix to combine. Dough will be sticky and slightly lumpy
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes
After 40 minutes of baking, pour the melted butter over the top of the loaf and bake for 10-12 more minutes or until the top is slightly golden
Let bread cool slightly in pan and then move it to a cooling rack
Enjoy warm with butter on the top!
DIRECTIONS FOR THE MASON JAR GIFT:
Print out and prepare our free Thanksgiving beer bread hostess gift printables HERE
In a mixing bowl, combine self-rising flour, sugar, and salt
Pour dry mixture into a large 32 oz Quart Mason jar and seal the lid
Attach the free printable tags to the jar.
See the joy on your host’s face when you present them with this super cute jar of beer bread mix. But don’t stop there, also download the matching wine bottle labels from the same link to complete the set!
Whether you bake this bread for Thanksgiving, use it as a hostess gift with our free printables, or just bake it because, we hope you enjoy it! It’s a great alternative to time consuming yeast breads that takes hours to rise. If you bake this bread, let us know what you think and if you use our free labels, we’d love to see your pictures! Happy Thanksgiving and happy beer bread baking!
xoxo
E-Three Design Studio