Cinnamon Bread

Here's another baking bites recipe for you. I brought this bread to Robert's Spring Picnic, I offered to make Banana Bread or Cinnamon Bread and the later won, but I'll include both recipes. The Banana Bread is from the Joy of Cooking cookbook.

Quick and Easy Cinnamon Bun Bread

3 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
8 tsp active dry or rapid rise yeast
1 1/3 cup warm milk (100-110F; low fat is fine)
6 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large egg

Filling/Topping
3 tbsp butter, room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
pinch ground cardamom

Icing
1 cup powdered sugar
1-2 tbsp milk or cream

Lightly grease an 8×8-inch square baking pan.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt. Dissolve the yeast in a measuring cup filled with the warmed milk, then stir milk mixture, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and egg into the flour mixture. Mix well, until very smooth. Pour into prepared pan and let rest for 15 minutes.

While the dough rests, mix together butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and cardamom in a small bowl using a fork until all the butter has been incorporated into the sugar and mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle evenly on top of rested dough and press the mixture down into the dough with your fingertips (or swirl in with a spatula.)
Place pan into a cold oven, then set the oven temperature to 350F.

Bake for about 30 minutes, until bread is lightly browned at the edges and the center of the bread springs back when lightly pressed. Some of the sugar mixture on top may still be bubbling.

Cool for at least 30 minutes before whisking the powdered sugar and milk together to form an icing and drizzling it onto the bread.

Serve warm. Leftovers can be reheated in the microwave.
Serves 9.

Banana Wheat Germ Quick Bread
from The Joy of Cooking cookbook

Preheat oven to 350
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
(or 1 1/4 cup flour and 1/4 cup wheat germ for wheat germ Banana bread Really good)
2 1/4 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
blend with:
1/3 c. shortening (I use applesauce)
2/3 c. sugar
3/4 t. grated lemon peel (from 1 or two lemons)
beat in:
1-2 beaten eggs
1 - 1 1/4 c. ripe mashed bananas

you can fold in (1/2 c. chopped nuts) and or (1/4 c. finely chopped apricots)
Place the batter in a greased bread pan. Bake the bread for about 1 hour or until done. Cool before slicing.

Irish Soda Bread

So on Thursday I made Irish Soda Bread. I was inspired after finding a blog that's connected to Pionner Woman called Tasty Kitchen, there are a lot of recipes, hours of time was sucked from me by this new discovery. But I made the bread and saved some recipes, created a log in and found some helpful ways to make homemade ingredients like ranch dressing, mayonaise, marshmallows, taco seasoning and nutella! http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen-blog/2010/03/the-theme-is-homemade-ingredients/

So here's the link for the soda bread, it didn't go as smooth as I expected. I didn't have quite a full stick of butter and the dough was more like pancake batter consistancy so I used pie pans covered with parchment paper instead of the recommended cookie sheet... But anyway here you go if you're interested. (Robert thought it was cornbread initally.) http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/recipes/breads/irish-soda-bread-4/

Irish Soda Bread
Added by thestainedapron on March 8, 2010 in Breads, Quick Breads

Prep Time 10 Minutes
Cook Time 35 Minutes Servings 12 Difficulty Easy

Ingredients
2 cups Buttermilk
1 whole Egg
1-¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
2 cups Flour
1-¾ cup McCann's Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal, Divided
¼ cups Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Caraway Seeds
6 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter
Preparation Instructions
Prepare a large cookie sheet. Either spray with nonstick spray, or line with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Set aside and preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Whisk buttermilk, egg, and baking soda together in a small bowl.

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, 1 1/2 cups oats, sugar, baking powder, salt, and caraway seeds.

Cut in butter with a pastry blender until butter is about the size of peas. Make a well in the center, pour in buttermilk mixture and mix together. Dough will be fairly wet.

With floured hands, divide dough into 2 and place on the prepared pan. Lightly pat each into a 9-inch circle (lightly flour your hands or the top of the mound if needed). Use a knife to cut each circle into 6 wedges. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 cup oats.

Bake for 35 to 45 minutes.

Variation: you can also add golden raisins or regular rasins. Just stir them in before adding the buttermilk mixture. I would use about 1 cup, but use more or less depending on your preference