Cinnamon Sugar Bread is better than eating a cinnamon & sugar cake donut. Easy & delicious, this bread is ready to devour in an hour.
This bread is simple, sweet, and super easy! It’s great for breakfast. This Costco-inspired recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Bread is bound to be a household favorite.
I love making homemade bread, whether it be this Cinnamon Sugar Bread, my grandma’s famous Pumpkin Bread, Zucchini Bread, or my kid’s favorite, my mom’s Banana Bread.
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Ingredients
- Butter
- Sugar
- Cinnamon
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Egg (just one!)
- Milk
- Vanilla extract
- Canola or vegetable oil
Sunday morning, I always make an excellent breakfast, usually crepes, but when time is the limit, I go to this Cinnamon Sugar Bread.
I love easy recipes that are just as delicious and inspired by some of our favorite foods. This Cinnamon Sugar Bread is something that you can whip up in 10 minutes and then let the oven do the rest of the work.
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How do you make Cinnamon Sugar Bread?
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9x5x3” loaf pan and set aside.
In a small bowl, combine 1/3 cup sugar and one tablespoon cinnamon, stir together, and set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and remaining 1 cup sugar. Sift together to combine.
In a small mixing bowl, whisk together egg, milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Stir by hand into the flour mixture until combined.
Pour half of the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Add the remaining batter, using a butter knife, and swirl the batter.
Then top with the remaining cinnamon and sugar mixture. Place in the preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool the loaf pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Serve immediately or let it completely cool before you slice and serve.
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Cinnamon Sugar Bread
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 4 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup canola oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 9x5x3'' loaf pan with 1 tbsp butter and set aside.
- In a small bowl combine 1/3 cup sugar and 3 teaspoons cinnamon, stir together and set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon and remaining 1 cup sugar. Sift together to combine.
- In a small mixing bowl whisk together egg, milk, oil and vanilla extract. Stir by hand into flour mixture until combined.
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- Add the remaining batter, using a butter knife swirl batter. Then top with the remaining cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- Place in the preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool loaf pan on cooling rack for 10 minutes. Remove loaf from pan onto a large plate. The loose cinnamon and sugar will come off onto the plate. Carefully press all the sides of the bread onto the cinnamon and sugar that comes off onto the plate. Slice and serve.
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My family loves this recipe! I would like to make muffins out of this, is that possible? What would the time be?
I have never tried muffins, but you totally could and I would stay start at 15-18 min and check on them every couple of minutes until they are cooked through. Let me know what you find.
I first tried this recipe in 2018, and it’s been in the rotation ever since! It makes the best treat anytime of day!
This is just delightful! So moist! We love ours with plenty of butter.
My brothers love this! We really can’t resist making this!
This looks fantastic! Wish I had a slice in my morning coffee!
Hello, can I use vegetable oil instead?
Hi Shri, you can definitely use vegetable oil in place of the canola oil in this recipe. I hope you enjoy!
OMG!! Looks delicious!!
This is my 10 year old’s favorite! He asks for it at least once a week.
Did not turn out at all. This is the first big FAIL I have ever made. It turned out like a block of clay. I followed the instructions to a “T”. It was embarassing cause I made it for company. The toothpick came out clean but after it rested for 10 minutes 2 divets appeared when I cut it the following day it was not cooked in the middle. Tried but wont be making it again
I’m so sorry it didn’t turn out for you! We’ve never had this happen and haven’t heard of it happening before. I would double-check your oven temperature and test the middle a few times in different spots with the toothpick before removing it from the oven, you may have checked a spot with the cinnamon swirl. The top should be a dark golden-brown crust. I hope you give it another try!
Hello, will this recipe work with bread flour instead of AP? Thank you.
Hi Mike, I’ve never tried this with bread flour and am not sure how it would affect the finished recipe as bread flour has more protein than AP flour and could make it chewier or tougher than it should be.
This is so easy. We love making french toast with it too.
I love it! Can’t wait to have this for breakfast!
This is the best bread ever! Love it so much. We make it very often!
SOOO good! My family went really crazy about this!
The recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Bread is an easy baking recipe. I have tried the recipe but with ghee instead of butter. I liked the result as ghee baked bread is more flavorsome than butter baked bread. I have used grass-fed ghee.
https://milkio.co.nz/grass-fed-ghee/
The mix of cinnamon and sugar in this bread makes me think of the winter, but I could eat it every day. This is being saved for later this year.
Absolutely delicious (and addicting – I’ve made it twice in two days!). This loaf is the most delightful marriage of coffee cake and a quick bread. It’s easy to make and comes together so quickly. I use King Arthur Measure for Measure Gluten Free flour and it turns out perfectly. My loaf is done in 52 minutes. I skip the plating step and leave it in the loaf pan. Thank you for this wonderful recipe!
Added some pecans on top. Delicious!
Really did not like. Needs butter in batter or something. I’ll stick with my other recipe
Sticking with something you like, wise. This is our favorite, to each their own.
Lmao
I sub sour cream instead of the oil. I hope it comes moist.
Let me know.
It lists the calories as CALORIES: 2957 kcal. I presume this is for the whole loaf. What would the calories be for a slice? Thanks
Per loaf – we cut into 10 slices. So that would be about 290 calories per slice.
Delicious and so easy! I used swerve instead of sugar, so if anyone is wondering if that works well, it does 🙂 saving this recipe and making it again another day for sure!
Can this only be made in a loaf pan or can I use a Bundt pan?
I haven’t tried a bundt pan, but I can’t see it being an issue.
very useful recipe! I want to try it in a week to make it