The smiley face in this bread perfectly describes how it makes you feel. Warm and delicious, it makes cold winter mornings bearable. It tastes like dessert, but I eat it for breakfast.
*Disclaimer: your bread will not have a smiley face it it. This was a happy accident (pun intended) and I have no idea how to recreate it.
This bread uses ingredients you likely have in your house already, and is ready to eat in an hour and a half, which makes it a perfect go-to. I’ve made it for last minute work events, brunch, and of course, lazy Sunday mornings.
If you don’t have buttermilk, you can easily make it using milk and lemon juice or vinegar. Read more here.
Also, it kind of tastes like a donut version of an Auntie Anne’s cinnamon pretzel. DROOL.
Swirled Cinnamon Bread
This easy go-to bread uses ingredients you likely have already and will be ready to eat in a hour and a half.
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 40m
- Total Time: 1h
- Serves: 8
- Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients
Bread
- 1/3 c vegetable oil
- 1/2 c butter (softened)
- 2 eggs
- 1 c granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/2 c flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 c buttermilk (or milk with lemon juice or vinegar - see above)
Cinnamon Batter
- 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp. molasses
Coating
- 1/2 c melted butter
- 1/4 c granulated sugar
- 1/4 c brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix oil, softened butter, and sugar until well combined. Stir in eggs and vanilla until smooth.
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Slowly mix dry ingredients and buttermilk into batter and stir until well combined.
- Separate 1/2 cup of batter into a small bowl and add remaining batter ingredients.
- Pour half of light batter into the loaf pan. Spoon half of the cinnamon batter in small dollops over the light batter. Top with remaining light batter and dot the top with cinnamon batter. Use a butter knife to swirl the two batters together in a marbled pattern.
- Bake 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs.
- Once bread is done, cool 10 minutes and remove from pan. Combine sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Brush bread with melted butter and coat with cinnamon mixture.
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