Soft Bread Salami Rolls

These soft rolls are great for sandwiches. They have a moist, tender crumb and thin, crisp exterior. Most of the time spent here is just letting the yeast do it's thing. These rolls are a great way to ease into bread baking, easily mixed in a standing mixer and shaped by hand.

The Italian Baker's Pane di Como

This bread from The Italian Baker uses what it calls a "starter" but it's not a sourdough starter. It's a pre-ferment using commercial yeast. The long pre-ferment adds a lot of flavor and the method of rising in a basket adds texture to the surface of the bread.

Italian-Style Bread with White Whole Wheat Recipe | Bread Baking

When I was a kid, bread fell into several categories. First, and most common, was plastic-bagged grocery store bread. Second was paper-wrapped skinny loaves of French bread. Third was paper-wrapped fatter loaves of Italian bread. And last, bakery bread, which meant there was a special event of some kind.

Long Loaves Recipe | Bread Baking

I'm not going to call these French bread or baguettes, because they are neither. What they are, though, is good. My secret weapon, semolina flour, adds a richness to the bread that I love. These are softer loaves. Still substantial, but also a bit airy. They're perfect for sandwiches—soft enough to bite into without breaking teeth or gouging the roof of your mouth with sharp crusty shards, but hearty enough to stand up to whatever fillings you choose.

Semolina and Sesame Grissini Recipe | Seriously Italian

It's like an extra serving of the best part of bread; the brown, crunchy, sesame-coated crust in concentrated form.

Soft No Knead Dinner Rolls

No knead, no special equipment required for these beautiful golden, soft and fluffy dinner rolls. Just combine the ingredients in a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon!

The Bread Bible's Sesame Burger Buns

[Photograph: Donna Currie] I love homemade hamburger buns, and they're great for more than just burgers. Just about any sandwich filling will be happy nestled inside this burger bun; they're particularly good for wet or sloppy fillings, or for sandwiches...

Chocolate Nutella Rolls

Chocolate Nutella rolls use the tasty combination of cocoa powder and nutella to effortlessly turn soft, fluffy Chinese milk bread into a gooey, molten, chocolate-y sweet treat topped with shaved toasted almonds.

Homemade Pizza Rolls

These homemade pizza rolls are a quintessential game day snack and infinitely better than their store bought counterparts. Just remember to eat them slowly because the filling is both delicious and molten hot!

Rapid Rolls From 'Kitchen Confidence'

When I was in high school, my friends and I used to gorge ourselves on frozen Sister Schubert's Parker House yeast rolls. Kelsey Nixon's rapid rolls in her new cookbook, Kitchen Confidence, offer that same satisfaction.