Swirled Cinnamon Bread is a melt in your mouth delicious-almost cake-like quick bread recipe full of delicious cinnamon sugar!
Cinnamon Bread
What is it about cold weather that makes you want to bake? This past weekend we had three days of flurries here in England-not very common in this part of the country. The first day it looked like a little dusting but after that it was just warm enough to keep it from sticking. I was a little disappointed because I can only imagine how gorgeous all these Cotswold thatched homes would look covered in snow!
We made a failed attempt to go for a hike (the wind and cold made us pretty miserable) and instead settled into a local pub for a lunch by a fire-then it was home and I spent the rest of the day baking up a storm-including this delicious Swirled Cinnamon Bread. This is a sweet, almost cake-like quick bread based on the same recipe as my Cinnamon Apple Bread (which has been shared over a million times so you know it’s good!)
Enjoy the cinnamon bread warm with a little butter or cooled on it’s own-it’s perfect either way!
Cinnamon Sugar Bread Ingredients
You probably have all the ingredients for this delicious cinnamon bread already in your kitchen!
- light brown sugar
- ground cinnamon
- sugar
- butter
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour
- baking powder
- milk
How to Make Cinnamon Bread
(Printable recipe below) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside. In a stand mixer (affiliate link) or large bowl, combine white sugar and butter until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat on medium speed until combined. Add flour and baking powder, then milk.
Pour half the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with half of sugar and cinnamon mixture. Pour the remaining batter over the top; add the remaining brown sugar/cinnamon mixture. Pat topping into the batter with the back of a large spoon. Use a butter knife to swirl the batter both horizontally and vertically to mix brown sugar mixture into the batter.
Bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Sprinkle with additional tablespoon of brown sugar over the top if desired. Cool in pan 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Cinnamon Bread
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Brown sugar cinnamon swirl make this cinnamon bread a hit! (And no one needs to know how easy it is to make!)
Ingredients
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar + 1 tablespoon extra if desired for top
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅔ cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.
- Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside.
- In a stand mixer (affiliate link) or large bowl, combine white sugar and butter until smooth.
- Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat on medium speed until combined.
- Add flour and baking powder, then milk.
- Pour half the batter into the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle with half of sugar and cinnamon mixture.
- Pour the remaining batter over the top; add the remaining brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
- Pat topping into the batter with the back of a large spoon.
- Use a butter knife to swirl the batter both horizontally and vertically to mix brown sugar mixture into the batter.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean.
- Sprinkle with additional tablespoon of brown sugar over the top if desired.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Keywords: cinnamon bread, cinnamon sugar bread
loved it!
★★★★★
I used this recipe as a guide to make a gluten free Cinnamon Swirl Bread and it turned out perfectly! Thank you so much for this simple, easy recipe. All I had to do was replace the flour with gluten free all purpose flour (I used Better Batter), and the texture is indistinguishable from the glutinous version. Bravo!
I’m so glad it turned out well, my stepdad is gluten free so I’ll have to make this for him with your adaptations next time he visits! ~Melissa
update: I added an extra 1/8 tsp baking powder the second time I made it and it added some nice height, as GF flour can get gummy. 🙂
When do you put the apple in the bread?
This one doesn’t have apple Regina, but if you want the apple version, it’s right here: https://thehappierhomemaker.com/2014/09/apple-cinnamon-bread/ Hope that helps! ~Melissa
There is an apple on the ingredients list but no apple in the method?
That was a mistake, I’ve fixed it!
I may just be trying your cinnamon bread today. Have you been over to the Isle of M an yet? There’s also Northern Scotland, ie Inverness, or the Isle of Skye that is also not far from Inverness. I envy you being over there.
We went as far and Loch Ness and Inverness over Christmas break, we’ve not been to Isle of M, I’ll look at that, thank you! ~Melissa
Am excited to try your bread!
For your Easter break, is Ireland too far away?
My husband and I visited there a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it!
We mostly stayed in Galway, but were in a couple of other southern towns as well.
Good luck!
Ireland is definitely not too far-it’s one of the places we’ve been looking at a lot. We visited Belfast and Dublin in July but really would like to get back into the more rural areas, I’ll look at Galway-thank you! ~Melissa