Why You’ll Love This Cinnamon Swirl Bread
The flavor is unmatched! This quick bread has all the flavors of a cinnamon roll baked in an hour! If you like cinnamon rolls and banana bread, you will love this Brown Sugar Cinnamon Swirl Bread! Ease of prep. The chances that you have everything in your pantry right now to make this cinnamon swirl bread are pretty high! This is an easy to make recipe with pantry ingredients! Both a breakfast and a dessert! This is one of those recipes that is so versatile. It’s basically a cake with the name bread. You can enjoy it in the morning with your coffee, as an afternoon snack, or after dinner as dessert. Don’t skip that spread of butter on top to take it to the next level!
Ingredients / What You’ll Need
Like I said above, one of the best things about this recipe is that you most likely have everything you need in in your kitchen right now! You’re only an hour away from warm Cinnamon Swirl Bread. Sounds like a plan! The recipe card at the bottom of the post has the full recipe that you can print out!
Why You’ll Love This Cinnamon Swirl BreadIngredients / What You’ll NeedHow To Make Cinnamon Swirl BreadHelpful TipsHow To Store Cinnamon Swirl BreadMore Cinnamon Recipes You Might LikeGet the Recipe
Dry Ingredients: All purpose flour, baking soda, and salt Sugar: You will use all brown sugar in this recipe which adds a deeper caramel flavor, while also adding a sweet moisture. Vegetable Oil: You can also use canola oil, or any light colored, flavorless oil. Buttermilk: Buttermilk gives this bread is soft, tender texture! No worries if you don’t have buttermilk, you can easily make a DIY version! Check out my recipe on How To Make Buttermilk at home. Butter: You’re going to use butter in the cinnamon swirl mixture. It’s a lot like the filling for cinnamon rolls! Flavor Makers: Vanilla extract and ground cinnamon!
How To Make Cinnamon Swirl Bread
This is a quick and easy recipe that only takes a few minutes to assemble. No mixer required! Whisk your dry ingredients together and then your wet ingredients and fold them together. That’s the bread batter! Then mix together the cinnamon swirl mixture together. To assemble the bread you will add some of the batter into a prepared loaf pan, then drop in half of the swirl mixture by the teaspoon. Top it with the remaining batter and then the remaining swirl mixture. Using a bread knife, just swirl it all in so you’re left with beautiful ribbons of buttery cinnamon throughout the bread and then bake it up!
Helpful Tips
Using buttermilk in this cinnamon bread recipe is what gives it the most tender crumb. The acid in the buttermilk paired with the baking soda is why this cinnamon bread recipe is airy and light, but also buttery! Using brown sugar in the batter makes it the best cinnamon bread ever. It makes it moist, tender, and adds a depth of flavor! The buttery, cinnamon swirl is what sets this recipe apart! The pockets of delicious cinnamon are like a cinnamon roll in cake form!
How To Store Cinnamon Swirl Bread
This bread keeps beautifully at room temperature if stored airtight for up to 3 days. If you don’t finish it you can freeze your bread airtight for up to two months. Allow it to thaw at room temperature and then it’s good to go! You can toast this bread as well which is a delicious way to reheat it!
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1/2 cup butter, room temperature 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Bread:
2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 egg 1 cup light brown sugar, packed 1 cup buttermilk 1/3 cup vegetable or canola oil 1 tablespoon vanilla
Freeze airtight for up to 2 months. Thaw at room temperature.
