Bread Machine Bagels
A simple and delicious recipe for homemade bagels using your bread machine. Soft and chewy bagels, perfectly risen every time.
Do you have a bread machine that you haven’t used in a while? Its time to dig it out and make some delicious homemade bagels. So Good, warm and fresh from the oven served with a pat of butter, cream cheese, or my favourite Cinnamon Cream Cheese Butter.
Why Use a Bread Machine?
Using your bread maker makes it easy to create bakery style bagels that are soft and chewy. It is convenient and easy to use for making the perfect bagel dough. Not only does it save you time, but it ensures consistent results every time. In addition to make great homemade bread, I use it to prepare the dough for Bread Machine Pretzels and Bread Machine Donuts.
Key Ingredients You Will Need
- Bread Flour – bread flour has a higher protein content compared to all-purpose flour which helps to achieve the perfect bagel texture.
- Bread Machine Yeast – this yeast is specifically formulated to work well with a bread machine. It doesn’t require proofing and activates quickly ensuring that the dough rises properly.
Tips for Making the Perfect Bagels
- Place the ingredients into the bread machine in the order listed. Do Not Mix!
- Select the dough setting.
- Don’t Skip the Boiling Step: Boiling the bagels before baking gives them their traditional chewy crust.
Try a Variety of Toppings for Homemade Bagels
Plain bagels are delicious, but if you want some extra flavor, sprinkle the bagels before baking with these ideas.
- sesame seeds
- poppy seeds
- dried minced garlic and onion
- coarse seat salt or kosher salt
- cinnamon sugar
- everything bagel seasoning
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Bread Machine Bagels
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1 teaspoon bread machine yeast
Egg wash mix
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Place the first 5 ingredients into the bread machine pan in the order listed.
- Do not mix!
- Insert the baking pan securely into baking unit, close lid.
- Select the dough setting on bread machine and start.
- When the cycle is complete, remove the dough from the pan and transfer to a lightly floured surface.
- Divide the dough into 10 -12 equal portions.
- Roll into balls, then using your thumbs make a hole in the center of each ball, working dough until hole is about 1 inch in diameter.
- Place on a greased baking sheet.
- Brush the top of each bagel with soft butter. Cover with wax paper and a dry towel. Let rise for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, bring 3 quarts of water and 1 tablespoon sugar to a boil.
- Reduce heat, lower bagels into water, as many as can fit without them touching.
- Simmer the bagels for 1 minutes per side.
- Drain on a paper towel, then place on a greased baking sheet.
- Preheat oven to 400 ºF.
- Prepare egg wash by whisking together 1 egg and 1 tablespoon water.
- Brush the bagels lightly with the egg wash mixture.
- Bake 400º F for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown.
Mine taste great but they didn’t raise. Any suggestions yeast was good,waited till machine turned off,covered with wax paper and towel.
Hi Larry, boy thats a tough one to figure out, usually it is a problem with the yeast. Did you remove dough as soon as dough cycle was complete and form the bagels, top with soften butter, then cover to raise? Another thing that can sometimes cause dough not to rise is room where dough is rising is too cool. Sorry I’m not able to help you more.
Set your oven to the lowest temp and shut off when ready. Add a shallow ovensafe dish with warm water to the bottom and then place bagels to rise. Might have to watch more closely or leave the door cracked but that could solve rising problems. My house is drafty.
I’ve tried many times to make a good bagel but yetthey usually turn out bready. Can you help me? Also When is best time to add cranberries, raisins etc. in the dough before baking?
Hi Teresa, did you try this recipe? I don’t really have another bagel recipe I’ve made. Also the cranberries or raisins would go into the bread machine with all the other ingredients.
You said use the dough setting . my machine also has a bagel dough setting. Which do you mean? I used daugb is that ok?
If your machine has a bagel dough setting that is what I would use.
Thank you but to late I followed your steps. They taste good but a little harder than I was hoping. I baked at 400 and they were done in less than 20 min. I think maybe lower temp with longer time. I an guess here.
Do you have a recipe for pretzel bagels in a bread machine?
Hi Debbie, I do have a recipe and I will try to get it posted to my blog soon.
Hi there, what size bread machine is this for?
I have the smaller 1 to 1-1/2 machine.
Hi Alaina, this recipe is for a regular size bread maker.
Instead of putting them on a greased pan, can you use a silicone baking mat? Or would that not work?
Hi Amber, I would think a silicon baking mat would work
Have you tried making a gluten free version for the bread machine?
No I haven’t, but I’m sure it works just great.
Can you use all purpose flour for this recipe?
I have used all purpose flour and it seems to work just fine.
So excited to try these bagels. I have seen so many recipes and I would much rather let the bread machine do the work. I can’t wait to try these. Might even try to do cinnamon raisin too. YUMMM!! Totally trying these 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Alison, the bread machine makes it so easy! Cinnamon raisin, YUM!
This sounds amazing! I’m just very partial to onion bagels probably because of my half-Jewish side. How do I make this recipe into an onion bagel recipe?
Hi, I would just pan fry some chopped onions until they are translucent and then top the bagels with them before baking.
Probably dried onions.
You could try everything bagel seasoning on top. That’s what I did.
I used the everything bagel seasoning also – and I added a little bit of coarse salt too.They came out delicious !