How to Keep Baked Bread From Shrinking
- 1). Prepare your bread recipe normally.
- 2). Overfill the container if the bread you're baking is made from a batter -- not to the point of overflowing, of course. If your bread is dough based, make a bigger ball of dough.
- 3). Serve your bread sooner. Bread shrinkage also can be caused by rapid moisture loss after being taken from the oven. The best way to deal with this is simply to serve it immediately. This is the same thing that happens to soufflés when they fall.