🇫🇷 Spiced French Summer Bread in Just 1 Hour! The Dough Rises Like a BALLOON! 🎈🥖

There's nothing better than the smell of freshly baked bread! 🥖✨ Today I'm sharing my favorite recipe for a soft, fluffy French-style summer bread with raisins, aromatic spices, and delicate Calvados notes. Thanks to a special dough-making method, the dough becomes incredibly airy and rises like a balloon, creating a light, tender crumb with a beautifully golden crust. This recipe is surprisingly simple, requires only about 1 hour, and is perfect for breakfast, sandwiches, soup, cheese boards, or simply with butter while it's still warm. If you love homemade bread with an amazing aroma and bakery-quality texture, you'll definitely want to try this recipe! ❤️ If you enjoyed this recipe, don't forget to Like, Subscribe, and turn on notifications for more easy baking recipes every week! 👇 Full ingredients are below. 📝 Ingredients Dough 200 ml (¾ cup + 1 tbsp) warm water (95°F / 35°C) 20 g fresh yeast or 11 g (1 tbsp) active dry yeast 2 tsp sugar 30 ml (2 tbsp) neutral vegetable oil 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp cornstarch 403 g (3⅓ cups + 3 tbsp) all-purpose flour 150–180 g (1 cup) raisins 60 ml (¼ cup) Calvados (or apple juice) 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground nutmeg ½ tsp ground cloves ½ tsp ground cardamom ½ tsp fine salt Egg Wash 1 egg 30 ml (2 tbsp) melted butter Topping 2 tbsp sesame seeds 1 tsp Herbes de Provence Pinch of sea salt ⏱ Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:09 Prepare the yeast mixture 00:53 Add oil, vinegar & cornstarch 01:52 Mix the dough 02:30 First rest 02:52 Stretch & fold 03:45 Second fold 04:49 Shape the dough 05:22 Divide into two loaves 06:48 Spiral shaping 07:11 Place into baking pans 08:02 Special egg wash 08:48 Seasoned topping 09:44 Bake 09:53 Freshly baked bread #FrenchBread #HomemadeBread #BreadRecipe #EasyBread #NoKneadBread #Baking #SummerRecipes #FreshBread #BreadLovers #EasyDough