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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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.
Can the canola oil be replace ?
Hi Maria, the closest substitute as far as taste goes would be a vegetable oil, but you can use any oil suitable for baking as a replacement! Hope you enjoy!
Do you recommend placing a piece of aluminum foil loosely over the loaf pan 30 minutes after baking so the top doesn’t get too brown? Thanks you
Hi Jaime! You can definitely check on it at 30 minutes and if you think it is browning too much, you may cover it loosely. The sugar on top will definitely turn brown faster than it cooks, which won’t affect the taste in a bad way! We have never had an issue with this. I hope you enjoy it!
this recipe is absolutely amazing!! delicious and wonderful, goes great with tea
Thank you, I’m so glad you enjoy it! It definitely is perfect with tea, especially at breakfast.
This Cinnamon Sugar Bread is looks incredibly delicious!
Thank you!
I am drooling over this cinnamon bread! Cinnamon is my favorite flavor!
I hope you enjoy this bread then!
This is my daughter’s favorite bread! I can’t wait to show her this recipe! So excited!
I hope she enjoys it!
This is delicious! So much cinnamon sugar in every bite. I keep going back for more!
So glad you like it!
I’d love a slice of this with my morning coffee!
The perfect combo!
hi i dont ahve a 9 *5*3. Can i use a 9 inch
Hi Stefanie! You can use whatever standard bread loaf pan you have, but if it is a bigger pan, it may cook faster so be sure to check it earlier than the recipe states.
DELICIOUS. Added the zest of 1 orange and 1/4 tsp of cardamom. Amazing winter dessert.
That sounds delicious! So glad you enjoyed it.
I give this loaf 5 stars for looks alone. I made a loaf about a month ago to bring to my daughter, sil and two granddaughters. My daughter sent a picture which we got 15 minutes after dropping the bread off. Half the loaf was gone and sugar/ cinnamon was everywhere. This time I made 2 loaves and we are not sharing one of them
This is an adorable story, thanks for sharing. I am so happy all of you loved it. xo San
This cinnamon bread is amazing!! I love to make it for my family and they love it every time, even when there were a few clumps of baking powder in it. XD
What kind of milk works best? Can you use buttermilk? Going to make this tomorrow. Can’t wait!!
Hi Cindy, we usually just use whatever cow’s milk we have on hand, 2% or whole milk usually but any should work! I wouldn’t recommend using buttermilk because it is more acidic which would affect the rise and taste because of the baking powder already used in the recipe. I hope you enjoy it!
What about skim milk? Is that ok?? That’s all I have.
That should be totally fine! We haven’t made this bread with skim milk, but I’ve made other quick bread with it and it works.
I used 3/4 tsp baking powder instead of one tbs. ugh. I’m sure it will taste delicious just more dense. It’s currently baking and looking a bit flat. That was 100% my error. I read the recipe several times but baking with children always ends in some minor, unintentional recipe adaptations lol. Will report back on the taste and texture of the bread. So far it smells amazing!
Oh no! It definitely shouldn’t affect the taste much. 1 tablespoon definitely seems like a lot but it’s what works to make the bread so soft and fluffy! I hope yours turned out tasty!
Question about the ingredients. Isn’t 1 Tablespoon too much baking powder? It left a very bitter taste in ours.
Hi Gary, 1 tablespoon is the correct amount of baking powder for the recipe. Make sure you aren’t using baking soda and that the baking powder isn’t expired. If everything is right and it’s still too bitter you can try cutting it to 2 teaspoons if you’d like, but note we haven’t tried it that way and it may not be quite as fluffy/risen as the recipe pictured.
Hi. I have a question. What happens if I use self-rising flour instead of regular flour? Do I still have to add baking powder to that?
I haven’t tried it that way, I am happy to test and try, as that would be great to know. Keep you posted.
I made this recipe as directed and it honestly wasn’t worth the effort. Tastes like regular bread but is sorta sweet.
That’s too bad, we love it and the crust topping is our favorite.
Am I insane ? I don’t see the amount of flour needed!
It’s in the recipe card – 2 cups
Struggling to bake this bread 🙁 just put it in for another 20 minute after the centre was raw at 60 minutes 🙁
I’m sorry to hear you had issues baking this bread. What size pan did you use? I would check that and double-check the oven temperature and your ingredients to make sure everything is right.
This recipe is great I was able to make an easy cinnamon bread which my family enjoyed, thank you.
Had to make due with what I had in the house so I subbed with coconut milk and butter. Had to bake it an extra 15 minutes but it came out so fluffy and delicious! Great easy recipe.
I made this accordingly and not sure what happened. The taste was unbelievably awesome but the bread was so dry we choked eating it. Would like to make it again but need suggestions.
Hi Betty, I’m not sure what the problem could be, as this hasn’t happened for me. Maybe cut down the baking time or check it earlier, or double-check the ingredients. I hope you give it another try!
This Cinnamon Sugar Bread looks absolutely amazing! I am so excited to try this over the weekend!
This would not last long at our house! It looks incredibly delicious!
This Cinnamon Sugar Bread couldn’t look any more perfect!