Amish Friendship Bread Recipe
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You can’t resist a slice of this warm, cinnamon Amish Friendship Bread. This quick bread starts with a sweet sourdough and makes two loaves. Perfect for gift-giving! For the starter recipe, click here.
I know you’ve all been waiting for this recipe. We shared our Amish Friendship Bread Starter recipe yesterday. If you haven’t gotten that sweet sourdough starter mixed up and fermenting on your countertop, what are you waiting for?
One look at this cinnamon Amish friendship bread and you’ll be anxiously awaiting that 10-day sourdough cycle to be complete so you can get baking.
This is a classic bread.
It’s soft and moist. It’s full of cinnamon sugar flavor. It’s a one-bowl, no-rise, couldn’t-be-easier quick bread.
And if you’re not into baking quick bread, try baking the friendship bread batter in a muffin tin. You’ll prepare the pans the same way, but you’ll preheat the oven to 425 degrees and bake them for 5 minutes, then reduce the baking temperature to 375 degrees and bake for an additional 13 minutes. It’s a little trick I learned from Sally’s Baking Addiction in order to get the pretty domed tops that everyone loves on a muffin.
And another option? Bake the batter in a 9×13 cake pan to have an Amish friendship cake. The options are endless with this easy bread recipe!
You’ll notice the first ingredient in this recipe is Head over to get the Amish Friendship Bread Starter here.
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Amish Friendship Bread
You can’t resist a slice of this warm, cinnamon Amish Friendship Bread. This quick bread starts with a sweet sourdough and makes two loaves. Perfect for gift-giving!
Servings 20 servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 cup oil
- 3 large eggs
- ยฝ cup milk
- ยฝ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups flour
- ยฝ teaspoon salt
- ยฝ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ยฝ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding (3.4 ounces each)
- 1 cup chopped nuts optional
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
Cinnamon Sugar Mixture:
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients.
- Mix well.
- Spray 2 loaf pans with cooking spray.
- Mix ยฝ cup sugar and 1 ยฝ teaspoons cinnamon into a small bowl. Dust the greased pans with half of this cinnamon/sugar mixture.
- Pour the batter evenly into the pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the batter.
- Bake for 1 hour or until the a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
- Cool until the bread loosens from the pan evenly and turn onto a serving dish.
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Notes
*To make muffins, spray two muffin pans with cooking spray. Sprinkle the greased muffin cups with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Fill the muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake at 425 for 5 minutes, then without opening the oven, reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for an additional 13 minutes or until the top of the muffin bounces back when you touch it.
Nutrition
Serving: 64g | Calories: 268kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 100mg | Potassium: 91mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 53IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1mg
What is gluten free recipe
Can you publish other recipes using this starter…Loved both the cinnamon and chocolate recipes…want more
I was so excited to try this recipe after baking it with my mom when I was young. Unfortunately, my daughters and I follow the recipe, we think correctly. The bread turned out with a gummy texture and boiled over like crazy in the oven. Should we have only filled a loaf pans halfway? If we had done that wouldโve easily made two loaves per batch of starter. Very confuse something went horribly . We ended up baking on day 11. Was that the issue? I want to try again but itโs a lot of work. any ideas?
I haven’t made this delicious bread in 30 years now time to bake and didn’t remember vanilla pudding can i make this bread without it and is there something I need to use instead thank you
1 cup of oil? That canโt be right. I followed the directions. But it was so runny after baking for 1 1/2 hrs.
It’s day 10 and I was ready to bake… Well crud. I don’t have vanilla pudding! Any suggestions? I can’t go to the store and Target isn’t delivering anything “non essential”.
Just made my loafs… they taste very salty/baking soda-y. Sad face โน
Can you make mini loaf breads?
What can I do with the extra starters? I don’t have that many people to pass it on to at this time. Can it be frozen?
Can I use this to make pizza dough?
I want to just bake a loaf without the added cinnamon etc… do I mix the half cups then divide into quarters and put one in loaf pan and bake? I’m not sure why I find this info hard to find. What temp as well
Hi Day 3 here, greeting from Grants Pass or, I was giving a loaf about 13+ years ago and loved it, a whole bunch of us kept it going, so I looked it up and found your recipe and I believe is the same, since weโre all staying home I felt inspired to start this going. Thank you
Finally day 10! My bread turned out Ah-amazing!
I was a little worried at first because with the pudding the dough felt more like pulling taffy! But, in the end… it baked up beautifully and tastes divine!
What a great project this was with my daughter while we are stuck at home!
You mentioned elsewhere you can leave the pudding out? Do I need to change anything else to be able to leave the pudding out?
Thank you so much – on to day 6!!!!