100% whole wheat... dough bun

I'm currently bunnysitting my niece's bunny, who just happens to be named Dough, so I titled this post in her honor. She's the sweetest little bun! The bread I made today, and not of course the bun pictured above, is whole wheat. The recipe I used was adapted from the 100% whole wheat loaf in The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook. It still has a lovely whole wheat flavor, but the added rolled oats make it a little bit lighter, and the blackstrap molasses adds calcium. You can replace the 1/3 cup rolled oats with whole wheat flour for a truly 100% whole wheat bread, if you'd like. This is the best wheat bread I've ever made or tasted, so you should try it if you have a bread machine! Recipe below.



Whole Wheat Bread
makes 2 lb. bread machine loaf

3/4 cup water
3/4 cup rice, soy, almond, etc. milk (vanilla ok, too)
2 Tbsp canola oil
1 Tbsp blackstrap molasses
3 Tbsp maple syrup
3 2/3 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
3 Tbsp gluten
1 3/4 tsp salt
1 Tbsp + 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast

Directions:
Put all ingredients in the bread pan in the correct order for your bread machine. Set crust to medium and program for the Whole Wheat cycle. Press Start. Remove bread from pan immediately after baking and allow to cool on a rack.