Julie Clark
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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
- ½ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ 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 ½ cup sugar and 1 ½ 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
Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe
New family favorite!
Do you have a print option for this that is clean without adds and a bunch of in between? Seems odd to just send them a bag with instructions on it for 10 days but nothing on how to prepare the mix to bake. My mom had this as a kid and the 10-day instructions were written on the bag like shown but her friend also had a printed bake recipe that she gave with it on 2 sheets i remember one with how to restart the starter then one with bake instructions. When i try to print this its… Read more »
How do you keep starter from the dough that you’re baking? Just take a cup out before splitting between pans?
Used to make this bread every 10 days when my kids were little. Between my kids & their friends, I did not give away a starter very often. Lol The variations you can do by changing the pudding in this bread is endless. We had quite a few flavors we loved, strawberry, banana, pistachio… endless. The one everyone asked for the most was chocolate with peanut butter chips. So good!! I think it’s time to start experimenting flavors with all the grandchildren. Happy experimenting!!
Can I use chocolate pudding and chocolate chips?
Is the use of instant pudding necessary? Can it be substituted with something ?
Hi there @Lizzy, What the heck is “2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding” with no hyperlinks to look at? PLEASE email me with what I can use to substitute for this. I live in New Zealand so likely won’t have the same availability of ingredients. I can’t rate it till I can make it. It sounds divine though, I love cinnamon! I would also like tips on how to turn my standard sourdough starter into an Amish sweet starter. Can I just use a cup of sourdough and add 1c each milk, flour and sugar instead of 100g each flour… Read more »
I have made this friendship Bread and I love it so much
Can you use Cake Flour for this recipe?
I used to make this bread in the ’80s and ’90s I do not remember putting the vanilla pudding in it can you replace it with anything else