Last Updated: May 9, 2020 | Baking
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Your taste buds will flip over this easy, homemade cinnamon bread. It’s amazing toasted with butter or made into a PB&J. Raisins and walnuts optional!
Let me explain up front why I needed to make homemade cinnamon bread: I don’t like raisins. Maybe it’s a texture thing; I don’t really mind their flavor.
But they certainly don’t belong in my bagels, my oatmeal cookies, or in my bread. I sure don’t want to pay $5 at the store for dry, stale cinnamon bread that I have to pick the raisins out of!
Once you’ve eaten homemade, warm cinnamon bread, you won’t want to buy the store bread ever again.
It’s delicious toasted, served with a bit of butter and homemade strawberry freezer jam. It’s amazing when made into French toast. And the kids will flip when you serve peanut butter and jelly on cinnamon swirl bread.
You won’t believe how easy this is. If you can make cookies, you can bake bread. Make sure your yeast is fresh from the store and you won’t have any trouble. Let’s do this!
Homemade Cinnamon Bread Recipe
Ingredients
1 egg
1 cup water
4 Tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup sugar or honey
1.5 teaspoons salt
4 cups bread flour
2 teaspoonsactive dry yeast
cinnamon sugar
Instructions
Place everything except the cinnamon sugar in your mixer, or bread machine set to “dough.”
If using a mixer, knead for 8-9 minutes. Put the dough in a clean bowl, cover with a damp cloth, and let rise until doubled. This can take from 30-60 minutes, depending on the temperature in your house.
Remove the dough from the bread machine or bowl and divide into two loaves. If you’re going to add raisins, now is the time.
On a lightly floured surface, stretch each piece of dough into a rectangle the same width as your loaf pan and as long as you can get it. The longer the rectangle, the more swirls in your bread!
Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the dough, making sure it reaches all the way to the edges. You can see I got a little carried away in the upper left corner–just brush the excess around with your fingers until all the empty spots are filled.
Then starting at the end nearest you, roll up the dough like a jelly roll. Pinch the dough together to seal the seam and place it in a lightly greased loaf pan (see my favorite loaf pans) with the seam side down. Repeat with the second piece of dough.
Cover your loaves with a damp cloth, and let rise again for 30-60 minutes. I got tired of having the dough stick to my cloth, so now I use a kitchen organizer shelf to hold the cloth away from the dough.
Bake the bread at 350F for 35-40 minutes. When finished, remove the loaves from the pans and let them cool on a wire rack.
When it’s time to serve, I recommend using a bread slicer guide for nice, even slices. Enjoy!
Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Yield: 2 loaves
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Rise Time: 1 hour
Bake Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Your taste buds will flip over this easy, homemade cinnamon bread. It’s amazing toasted with butter or made into a PB&J. Raisins and walnuts optional!
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1 cup water
- 4 Tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 cup sugar or honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 4 cups bread flour
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- cinnamon sugar
Instructions
- Place everything except the cinnamon sugar in your mixer, or bread machine set to "dough."
- If using a mixer, knead for 8-9 minutes. Put the dough in a clean bowl, cover with a damp cloth, and let rise until doubled. This can take from 30-60 minutes, depending on the temperature in your house.
- Remove the dough from the bread machine or bowl and divide into two loaves. If you want to add raisins or walnuts, now is the time. On a lightly floured surface, stretch each piece of dough into a rectangle the same width as your loaf pan and as long as you can get it. The longer the rectangle, the more swirls in your bread!
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the dough, making sure it reaches all the way to the edges.
- Then starting at the end nearest you, roll up the dough like a jelly roll. Pinch the dough together to seal the seam and place it in a lightly greased loaf pan with the seam side down. Repeat with the second piece of dough.
- Cover your loaves with a damp cloth, and let rise again for 30-60 minutes.
- Bake the bread at 350F for 35-40 minutes. When finished, remove the loaves from the pans and let them cool on a wire rack. Enjoy!
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