Soft & Fluffy Homemade Cinnamon Bread
This homemade cinnamon bread recipe makes two soft, fluffy loaves packed with warm cinnamon flavor. Perfect for breakfast, snacking, or toasting with butter, this easy yeast bread is made with simple pantry ingredients and costs less than store-bought cinnamon bread.
Servings: 2 loaves
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups warm water
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ¼ cup oil
- 3 Tablespoons live yeast
- 2 eggs
- 5 cups flour 5 to 5 1/2 cups
- Cinnamon you'll need enough to cover the dough
Instructions
- In a bowl, add the water, sugar, oil and mix.
- Add in the yeast and stir.
- Allow the mixture to sit for 10 minutes allow the yeast to grow (also called the mother)
- Add the eggs and blend. Then add half the flour and mix together.
- Add a little flour at a time until mixture is not wet and forms a ball.
- Place a little oil in the bowl you mixed in (make sure you scrape out if needed), add the dough ball back in, cover. Let rise for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350℉
- Remove the dough from the bowl and cover counter with flour and spread out about half of the dough. (can also use a silicone mat)
- Use a rolling pin and roll the dough out thinly but wide enough for the loaf of bread.
- Sprinkle cinnamon on the dough until it is covered evenly.
- Roll the bread up like you do for cinnamon roll, keeping it tight and seal the end to the dough once done.
- Place into the loaf pan, cover and let rise until the dough is over the loaf pan sides.
- Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.