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
You mentioned elsewhere you can leave the pudding out? Do I need to change anything else to be able to leave the pudding out?
Thank you so much – on to day 6!!!!
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
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?
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
I am going to cook this. Please let me know what temp? And how long to bake?
No where does it tell how long to bake the bread for or what temperature at could you please tell me.
Do you have a recipe for banana bread using the Amish starter? I am only in day two of my starter but am looking for additional recipes to make using my starter 😉 I would also like to make wheat bread (and am completely new to making my own bread) and was curious if younger any tips on how to use this recipe but make it wheat as well. 🙂 thank you!
When you go to bake the Amish friendship bread can you leave out the cinnamon and pudding and just make sourdough bread?
I make this Amish Bread and Muffins without the starter. Taste wonderful.
What size loaf pans do you use? If I am baking in 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 would it still make 2 loaves?
So I do the starter recipe and then at day 10 is when i put all the ingredients in to bake it? Or do I just make it all at onve without doing the 10 day cycle?
what size loaf pans?
I am in the middle of a starter but will be out of town on day 10 and will not be able to bake. I plan on baking all but one starter to give as gifts. Should I freeze the starters until I can bake ? I will not be able to bake until day 14.
Thank you,
Hi Julie, I am going to be making my friendship bread. The thing that confuses me is the amount of instant pudding to use. Some recipes call for 1 large box, some 1 small box, and some 2 small boxes. I threw away an old recipe I used to use 😩. I would appreciate your help! Thank you.
Could I use almond milk instead of regular milk also what can I use in place of the eggs like egg substitute maybe