Sweet and Spicy Cinnamon Bread

If you like cinnamon you absolutely won’t want to miss out on this amazing cinnamon bread recipe. It’s a simple sweet bread that has sweet cinnamon butter swirls. It’s soft and moist, and ideal for breakfast, brunch, a sweet snack, or even for dessert. 

You can also toast it or use it for making the best French toast ever, which would be great for brunch if it’s a special occasion or holiday. It’s also worth making 2 or 3 loaves at once since it keeps a while, will definitely all get eaten and you can freeze it in slices too.

As cinnamon is the main flavor in this homemade loaf, choose the freshest cinnamon you can get. That doesn’t mean the plastic container of ground cinnamon that’s been in your pantry for the past 3 years. Invest in some whole cinnamon sticks and grate your own. The fresher flavor will be worth it.

Why You’ll Love the Recipe:

This incredible cinnamon loaf smells amazing the whole time it’s in the oven and it’s a rich-flavored, sweet and moist loaf everyone will adore.

How to Serve It:

Enjoy a slice as it is, spread with salted butter or even toasted. 

Can You Make It Ahead?

Yes, as it keeps for several days.

Variations and Substitutions:

Add half a cup of raisins or a handful of chopped walnuts or pecans to the batter if you like. 

Ingredients needed:

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• White sugar
• Milk
• Ground cinnamon 
• Salt
• Baking powder
• Lemon juice
• Eggs
• Vegetable oil
• Brown sugar
• Vanilla extract
• Melted butter

How to make Sweet and Spicy Cinnamon Bread:

Preheat the oven to 350°F. 

Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan heavily and then sprinkle flour in it.

Whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, white sugar, salt, and 1 tablespoon of the cinnamon.

Whisk the milk and lemon juice in another bowl and let it sit for 5 minutes, then mix in the oil, eggs and vanilla.

Add a third of the dry ingredients mixture to the wet ingredients mixture and stir well.

Repeat twice more until it’s all incorporated.

Stir the remaining 1½ tablespoons of cinnamon with the brown sugar and melted butter together to make the cinnamon swirl.

Spoon half the main batter into the prepared loaf pan.

Pour three lines of cinnamon swirl mixture on top across the whole loaf, then swirl with a toothpick or skewer, making 8-shapes or S-shapes.

Spoon the remaining batter on top and repeat with the rest of the cinnamon swirl mixture to make more swirls on top.

Bake for 50 minutes or until done. If a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, it’s ready.

Let it cool for no longer than 5 minutes in the pan (otherwise it will stick!) and turn out on to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Homemade cinnamon bread is such a wonderful snack. This tasty, moist loaf can be toasted, made into French toast or enjoyed as a sweet snack slathered with plenty of butter.

Storage Instructions:

Leftovers will keep for up to 3 days in plastic wrap at room temperature. You can freeze it for up to 3 months, thawing on the counter for about 5 hours before serving.

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