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.
Amish Friendship Bread
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
- 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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Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe
Mary B says
No where does it tell how long to bake the bread for or what temperature at could you please tell me.
Julie Clark says
https://www.tastesoflizzyt.com/amish-friendship-bread-recipe/
Connie says
I am going to cook this. Please let me know what temp? And how long to bake?
Julie Clark says
325 degrees F for about 1 hour
Shari Bryer says
I used to make Amish friendship bread when I was a teenager, I baked the starter in many different ways but my favorite one had chocolate chips in it, yumm. I can’t wait to do this again for my family
Alyssa Moody says
What else can you use this start for? Can you use it for the amish sourdough bread recipe you have and the chocolate amish bread recipe?
Julie Clark says
Yes! We’re working on more recipes too 🙂
Judy says
I am on day 5 of my Amish Friendship bread and it is very flat – I have been letting the air out every day before I mash – should I not have been doing that or is this OK. I will be feeding it tomorrow so hoping it will rise again. Should I be starting over? Thanks
Julie Clark says
It should be just fine!
Judy says
Thank you so much – on to day 6!!!!
C says
You mentioned elsewhere you can leave the pudding out? Do I need to change anything else to be able to leave the pudding out?
Julie Clark says
I haven’t tried it but others have just left it out. 🙂
Donna says
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!