I’m thrilled to share my newest, most in-depth email series that I’ve ever offered.
(PS: I have two other free email series including Baking Made Easy and How to Bake a Perfect Cake!)
Fast Track to Bread Success
I ask readers this all the time: which recipes intimidate you the most? And 90% of the answers include “yeast breads.” I get it. I used to be terrified of baking homemade breads, too. They seemed SO complicated and out of reach, especially when recipes aren’t carefully explained. I was really frustrated.
So I taught myself. Over the course of 10 years, I went from shakily rolling out dough to confidently whipping up Nutella babka, croissants, and homemade bagels. All without hesitation.
Pictured above: Artisan Bread.
Let me send you on the fast track to homemade bread success.
Beginner’s Guide to Yeast
Today I’m presenting you with my Beginner’s Guide to Yeast Email Course.
This 5 day email series includes:
- in-depth baking with yeast tutorials
- yeast FAQs answered in easy-to-comprehend language
- my highest-rated bread recipes for beginners
- careful explanations so your fears of yeast finally subside
Some of this information is already on my website, but it’s never been delivered in an in-depth ongoing series with certain recipes grouped together and where you visualize them all. I’m really proud of the content I’ve put together in this series!
Sign Up Here
What’s The Process?
After signing up, you’ll receive 1 email per day for 5 days. After that, I’ll send you about 1 email per week with popular recipes as I update them with recipe notes and easier instructions. If you’re already on my email list, you won’t receive my Beginner’s Guide to Yeast series unless you sign up using the form above. (This series is in addition to what I regularly send out to you.)
This is all completely free. All that’s happening is me showing up in your inbox. You don’t need to do anything– no homework– just read, learn, and get excited to apply the information in your own kitchen. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you so much for reading, following along, and trusting my recipes!
Thank you so very much for the opportunity, Sally! I have never baked a single one of your recipes that wasn’t delicious!
I’ve been working with yeast for years, but it’s always good to learn something new. I wondered if there is really a difference between fast rising and regular yeast.
Thank you so much for this! I made your no-yeast soda bread and it was a huge hit. It looked beautiful and tasted even better. I am anxious (and scared) to make the yeast jump. But am ready to give it a shot with your guidance and the best three cheerleader daughters anyone could ask for 🙂
I made the easy cinnamon roll from scratch today! It tastes good and very soft! However, there’s a bit of a yeasty aftertaste to it. Can you help me find out why? Thanks!!
Hi. Sally. I just signed up for your tutorial especially using yeast. I am a retired nurse and I am trying to learn how to bake especially with yeast. I do some baking but I want to learn more of your tips and tricks to be truly successful. Thank you and be safe.
I am, and have been, a baker since baking with my grandmother growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. It led to my having had a cake business in Houston for nearly 40 years. I still bake nearly every day. I tell people it’s a sort of therapy for me. Yeast is something I’ve shied away from and only recently I’ve begun to get into after having found a one-hour cinnamon roll recipe. I’ve made that enough now that a bit of the intimidation is eased and I’m (hopefully) ready to explore the magic! I’m looking forward to this!
I have up many times, but still have not received any emails. I have checked spamand northing there. Thanks.
When will the yeast emails start? I love yeast rolls and yeast cinnamon rolls. Thanks for all your tips. I learned a great deal.
Shortly after you sign up! If you didn’t receive the welcome email, check your spam. Thanks for joining!
The last time I tried to make yeast bread it was so hard that I could have killed someone if I had thrown it at them so many thanks for this!!!
I love bread. So looking forward to the yeast series. Thank you
Question: do you do sour dough? I have been struggling for more then a year to make consistently yummy sour dough loaves. I’ve read so many recipes purchased so many books and every time I do I find out something is missing. It seems like the authors do it on purpose. I follow the recipe exactly and still still turns our under or over proofed. Then I follow another link to see where I might have gone wrong and there it is a tip that may of helped. Always something left out that would have helped the process. I would list the books and chefs, but it looks like I have written a short story as it is. I should have just asked, do you have a SD series? And thank you:). Katie
Hi Katie, I wish I could help but I don’t have a sour dough recipe on my site yet! I’m not sure if you have tried this site yet, but you can give the King Arthur Flour website a try: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe
I am excited to start getting your emails! I have been baking for years, but mostly cakes, cookies, cupcakes. I’ve always wanted to do more breads, and after trying your January Challenge, I am ready for more!
Love your recipes and the way you ‘talk’ us through each step. Thank you for sharing your passion and gifts with all of us!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Melissa! Loved reading them 🙂
I used to bake yeast bread with my grandmother when I was young but haven’t done so in quite a while. I love the idea of this email series and am looking forward to it!
I’m so glad you’re looking forward to this email series, Patrice!
Sally will you include yeast donuts recipe? Mine never puff up when I put them in the hot oil. Thanks
Hi Lisa, my Homemade Glazed Donuts are a real, old fashioned, fried donut made with yeasted dough. I think you will love them!
I’ve baked with yeast quite often and sometimes things don’t go quite that way I think they should, (really, it’s not me, haha), so I am really looking forward to your tutorials. My son and I made your cinnamon rolls in the crock pot and they were amazing. This Christmas, my 4 year old grandson and I made your cinnamon rolls and they came out beautifully (even the ones Carson had to cut using a spoon.lol, because I (Bubba) wouldn’t give him a knife. Can’t wait to get started and since I have never done your Baking Challenge, I’m going to start with the artisan bread you’ve slotted for January. Love, love everything I have ever made from your site. You make cooking, baking and living a good full life so very simple and stress free. Thanks for that! You’re amazing!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Christine! Thrilled you’ve been enjoying my recipes- hope you find this email series helpful 🙂
My last attempt at yeast bread was years ago, it was beautiful after my husband shellacked it. It was used for years as a bookend……
Please, count me in! 😉
LOL! I hope you find this series helpful, Pamela!!
I’ve been baking with yeast for many years, and I have a precious granddaughter who lives too far away to help and who had a real flop with her expectations of yeast and its need to rough up, rest, rise, and repeat! This series comes at a perfect time for her to begin her own journey with the delights of homemade bread! Thank you so much for sharing this with us, no matter where we are on the road to BREAD!!
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”” John 6:47-51 ESV
Sally I make your no-knead walnut cranberry bread all the time, it’s so delicious. I hope you’ll do a wheat-honey version of this type (no-knead)with some AP flour to keep it light. I’m not afraid of yeast, but I’m always looking to improve my baking and your tips are always great!
Your email to sign up for the beginner guide to yeast came at the right time! I just tried to make sandwich roll but couldn’t get past step 2, wait for yeast/water to bubble. I need serious help!
I bake bread, rolls, yeast-y things, quite often. Am I an expert? Heck no, I can always learn a new trick! The main thing I’ve learned all these years? Go with your gut…it hasn’t let me down yet!
I have been so intimidated by yeast and getting dough to rise correctly. I can’t wait to get the e-mails and work on it.
So excited! I make your cinnamon rolls every year for Christmas, but I’m certainly not a master at yeast-baking. Looking forward to this.
I bake regularly, including yeast beads. I’m confident in baking with yeast, but I’m entirely self-taught. I signed up anyway because I’m sure you have tips or tricks that I haven’t learned yet. Thank you, Sally, for all your hard work.
Thank you Sally! I have never tried to make yeast breads and have wanted to but I fear the use of yeast and kneading and……..! This is exciting Sally!
So looking forward to your baking with yeast series! Thank you for pushing us to try (and conquer) new baking challenges.
I am excited about doing more with yeast. I feel better eating spelt than wheat bread, so any tips you can share on using alternate flours would be awesome. Thank you!
Sally! It’s as if you read my mind! And…I’m so glad to know I’m not the only avid baker…that has feared and avoided yeast! I had already made it my 2020 baking goal. Hooray! I suddenly feel so…”trendy”!
Cannot wait! I use yeast often, but still am not confident with my ability.
I’m not an experienced bread baker but since this is “soup season” the timing is perfect! Thank you for your recipes!
I appreciate all your tutorials!! I always go to your web page first and do my reading update before trying anything new. Yeast does not scare me anymore! But I signed up for a refresher course *laughs*
You seriously are the perfection of a baker!! I can’t say thank you enough for all that you have taught me! This year my christmas cookies and candies were called “professional quality”. I cried, thank you Sally!!
I bake a lot.
I have NEVER used yeast.
It’s about time!
I think the free refers to not having to pay for the serious, not that the reciped will be yeast-free
That picture of those cinnamon rolls did it for me! Looking forward to it, thanks!