How to Make Bread Cubes for Stuffing

Overhead view of perfectly cut homemade bread cubes for stuffing.

How to Make Bread Cubes for Stuffing

Want to make a stuffing, but can't find plain bread cubes? Make your own with this simple tutorial on how to make bread cubes for stuffing! It's easier than you think!

Course ingredient

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings serving (scale this recipe up or down as you’d like)

Calories 77kcal

Author Sam Merritt

Equipment

Baking sheet
Serrated bread knife
Kitchen shears (optional)

Ingredients

1 loaf of sliced bread

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300F (150C).
Cut bread into ½” cubes. I find this is easiest if the bead is slightly stale. I cut each slice into strips and then use kitchen shears to cut into neat ½” cubes.
1 loaf of sliced bread
Scatter evenly over an ungreased baking sheet.
Transfer to center rack of 300F (150C) oven and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, use a spatula to stir the bread cubes, then return to the oven and bake another 5 minutes. Check the bread cubes after 5 minutes, if they’re not crisp/are still slightly soft, return to the oven in 5 minute intervals until crisp.
Allow to cool before using as indicated in your recipe.

Notes

Bread

You can use any kind of bread you’d like for this recipe. If the bread is too difficult to cut, it may be helpful to use kitchen shears. You can also let it sit out for several hours to become slightly stale, which will help with cutting it, too.

Volume

The bread cubes will shrink in the oven and you will lose volume, so make more cubes than your recipe calls for. 8 cups of bread cubes shrinks up to about 6 after baking.

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