The Best Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe
Soft Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe with a Crispy Crust
This bread recipe was given to me by my grandmother who was famous for her bread. She made over 1,000 loaves in her lifetime.
I took her tried and true bread recipe and added a cinnamon twist to create the best cinnamon bread recipe ever! You are sure to love this Cinnamon Swirl Bread! It has a bit of a crusty outside with a soft bread inside.
That’s the Original Recipe!
Although recipe cards are becoming a thing of the past they’re still great to hold on to!
Cinnamon Swirl Bread Ingredients
This bread recipe has only six ingredients! And the cinnamon swirl filling has only four ingredients. A lot of them you should already have on hand too.
Making the Bread
When you make this bread you add the wet ingredients to the flour and yeast. Then you mix off and on for 45 minutes.
You have to knead in the additional flour so if you’re not sure how to do that by hand check out this guide on how to knead bread dough.
Sprinkle on Your Toppings
Once the dough is kneaded and only slightly sticky, spread it or roll it out to just less than the width of the inside of the pan. Spread butter over the top and sprinkle with brown sugar, white sugar, and cinnamon. Your cinnamon swirl bread is almost ready!
Final Toppings
Once you’ve rolled up your dough and you’ve got it in your pan, sprinkle it with some sugar topping.
Now you’re going to play a bit of a waiting game waiting for your bread to rise. This is the worst part of this recipe! However, if you cover it with a towel it will rise faster!
Easy Clean Up Tip
All that dough stuck to your counter top can seem pretty annoying and tough to remove. However, it’s super easy to clean it up with a dough scraper!
Enjoy Your Cinnamon Swirl Bread
This recipe makes 2 loaves. However, I would recommend making 4, if you have enough loaf pans, because if you are going to go to the trouble of making 1 loaf of bread it is very little more work to make 4!
Plus, if you can not eat 4 you can freeze some of it or take a loaf or two to a friend or neighbor. Chances are your family will devour most of it before you get a chance to do much of anything with it.
Variation for Wheat Bread:
To make wheat bread you simply replace the white flour with wheat flour. I like to do half and half. It keeps the bread a little lighter than a full wheat bread but adds the whole grain and nutrition of wheat.
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The Best Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe
Equipment
- Stand mixer
- Small bowl
- Loaf pan
Ingredients
For Bread:
- 3 cups warm water
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 9 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast
For Cinnamon Swirl:
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- ½ cup butter softened to room temperature
Topping:
- 2 tablespoons cold butter
- 1 tablespoons brown sugar
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
Instructions
- In a large stand mixer bowl or medium bowl, mix together warm water, oil, honey, and salt.
- Add 6 cups flour and the yeast to the water mixture and use a stand mixer with a dough hook to mix it all together for 5 minutes, then let rest for 10 minutes. Repeat the mix for 5, rest for 10 method 2 more times, for a total of 3 times (45 minutes mixing and resting).
- Knead 2 to 3 more cups of flour into the dough by hand. Or you can use the mixer to knead it in, but don't over mix. Dough should be slightly sticky, and if using the mixer, should clear the sides of the bowl.
- In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, sugar, and cinnamon for the filling.
- Split dough into two equal parts for two loaves. Roll one dough ball out to about 6 inches by 18 inches. Spread half of the butter over dough. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar mixture over the butter.
- Roll the dough up starting at the short end. Pinch the seam together, pinch and tuck ends under the loaf. Place loaf in well-greased loaf pan. Repeat with remaining dough ball.
- In a small bowl, cut the cold butter into the brown sugar and flour for the topping, until the mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over tops of the loaves.
- Let bread rise for about 30 minutes, or until loaves rise just above the tops of the pans.
- Line a baking sheet with foil and place loaf pans on the lined sheet. Bake at 350°F/175°C for 40 minutes. Let cool in pans for 15 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
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Thanks for sharing ;). I treasure my recipe cards from my grandma as well.
Your website is awesome!!!!!
You are welcome. Recipe cards are becoming a thing of the past. So it is cool to have a few special ones. Thank you for your sweet comment!
What a great recipe!! Do you know if you can freeze it?
One of the victims of the digital age is the recipe card. I love having my grandmother’s but I keep all my recipes online so nothing to pass on. 🙁
Yes! You can freeze it!
Any chance anyone has ideas on how to make this work with other kinds of (gluten free) flours? Like maybe a combination of sorghum, almond, and white rice? I’m very interested in trying it out, but my son gets very very sick from wheat, barley and rye. Thank you!
I have a small collection of gluten free recipes. I will look at them for you tomorrow when I am at my desk.
I would try…
6 cups rice flour
6 cups tapioca flour
6 cups cornstarch
1 cup potato flour
Xanthan Gum 3 teaspoons
Unflavored Gelatin 2 teaspoons
I am not an experienced gluten free baker. But I got this from a bread recipe given to my by a fabulous gluten free baker. Hope it works. 🙂
Thank you! This looks great. I’ll give it a try.
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Just thought you might want the info.
Thanks for the recipe!
Missy
Thank you for your feedback. I know exactly what you are talking about. we are working on getting it fixed. I appreciate you letting us know. Glad you like the bread recipe.
This issue has been fixed now!!!!!
I think this would make delicious toast, or French Toast! Imagine this with the addition of cinnamon chips, so it’s just like that cinnamon burst bread from Great Harvest, but without all the cost. Thanks for sharing your grandmother’s special recipe. I’m going to copy this one and make it when my boys are home for Thanksgiving week!
Tina- I agree! It does make fantastic french toast. I hope your boys love it!
This looks awesome….I am making it as we speak. Just a quick note….in your picture tutorial (which is great!) it shows the bread rising under a towel, but in the actual printable recipe it just says to put it in the pan and bake it. Just thought you may want to add an extra line in there for the rising.
I can smell mine now and it smells divine!! Thank you!
Melissa- I am so excited that you are making it. Wish I was at your house right now. You are right, the bread must rise. I will be sure to add that. Thanks for pointing that out!!!!
How long do you let the bread rise before baking? I’m not seeing it on here. Thanks
Let bread rise for 30-40 minutes. Until it start to rise above the level of your pan.
Cover the pans with a towel for faster rising.
Looks delicious!! And I ironically had a Grandma Jensen as well!!
I was just curious why you knead in the last 6 cups by hand? I am super excited about this recipe! Thanks for sharing!!!
I think it helps with the texture and keeps you from having too much flour. You could try adding all of it in the mixer. It might be a little tougher consistency though? I should try it sometime and see what it is like. If you decide to try it let me know how it goes.
I was just wondering what kind of MIXER you are using? I have never seen one like it. I have to make this bread it looks so yummy, and I think my family will love it!
It is a dimension 2000. It is an imitation of the Bosch mixer. I wish I would have bought a Bosch because they have been around forever! My mom has had hers for more than 30 years. They have all kinds of cool attachments you can add to the unit too. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E8HZQZ0?tag=mofab-20
Thank you so much, I am going to check it out, thanks for the link!
Do you think I could use the dough to make cinnamon rolls?
Yes, I think you could.
Can you make this with Active Dry Yeast? And if so how many packets? Thank you.
Yes! But you may want to proof the active dry yeast first though because it has a larger granule. To do this, you could try adding it to the water/honey mixture and letting it soak for a few minutes. Also, active dry yeast may be slower to rise though, so you may need to add 10-15 minutes to rising time.
A packet of yeast usually includes 2 1/4 teaspoons of yeast. So to get 2 tablespoons, you’d need just over 2 1/2 packets.