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This Christmas Bread is the gift I give to neighbors, friends, and co-workers every year

Every year for Christmas I make Christmas Bread. It’s one of my favorite traditions, and I always make a ton of loaves to gift to our friends, neighbors, and co-workers. It’s a delicious sweet bread that is great for dessert or breakfast, and always gets rave reviews (in fact, several of Philip’s co-workers wouldn’t even tell their wives about it every year so they could eat the entire thing as soon as they got it. I got in trouble one year when I mentioned the bread at a work party and some of the wives had no idea what I was talking about…ha!)

My cinnamon bread gets amazing reviews – I could eat an entire loaf by myself.

The best part is that it’s super easy, and besides taking an hour to bake, it comes together really quickly. In years past I’ve cooked two at a time (since I only had two bread pans), but this year I picked up a few disposable ones and cooked 4 at a time so it went much faster and made my life a lot easier.

Also, my boys probably ate two entire loaves on their own, and would have eaten much more if I’d have let them. So it gets their stamp of approval as well. It would also be a perfect dish for Christmas morning tomorrow!

Christmas Bread Cinnamon Sugar

Christmas Cinnamon Bread

I make this recipe every year for our friends and neighbors for Christmas! It's actually a coffee cake recipe, but I always make it in loaf pans so it's easy to wrap up and gift.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 2 loaves

Ingredients
  

Batter

  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups sour cream

Brown sugar filling

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

How to make this bread

  • Heat oven to 350.  Grease bottom and sides of 2 loaf pans (9 x 5 x 3)
  • Prepare brown sugar filling and set aside.
  • Beat together sugar, butter, vanilla & eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. 
  • Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Beat flour mixture and sour cream alternately into sugar mixture on low speed until blended.
  • Spread 1/4 of the batter (about 1-1/2 cups) into each pan, then sprinkle  each with 1/4 of the filling; top with another 1/4 of the batter, and then top with 1/4 of the filling.
  • Bake for about 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.  Cool slightly; remove from pans and place top side up on wire rack.
  • Let cool completely, then wrap up and take to your friends, or eat the whole loaf by yourself (no judgements here).

This Cinnamon Christmas Bread Recipe Makes a Great Neighbor Gift!

Christmas Bread Cinnamon Sugar

Christmas Bread is the gift I give to neighbors, friends, and co-workers every year

Every year for Christmas I make Christmas Bread. It’s one of my favorite traditions, and I always make a ton of loaves to gift to our friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

It’s a delicious sweet bread that is great for dessert or breakfast, and always gets rave reviews (in fact, several of Philip’s co-workers wouldn’t even tell their wives about it every year so they could eat the entire thing as soon as they got it. I got in trouble one year when I mentioned the bread at a work party and some of the wives had no idea what I was talking about…ha!)

My Christmas bread gets amazing reviews – I could eat an entire loaf by myself.

The best part is that it’s super easy, and besides taking an hour to bake, it comes together really quickly. In years past I’ve cooked two at a time (since I only had two bread pans), but this year I picked up a few disposable ones and cooked 4 at a time so it went much faster and made my life a lot easier.

Also, my boys probably ate two entire loaves on their own, and would have eaten much more if I’d have let them. So it gets their stamp of approval as well. It would also be a perfect dish for Christmas morning!

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Christmas Bread
Christmas Bread Cinnamon Sugar

Christmas Cinnamon Bread

I make this recipe every year for our friends and neighbors for Christmas! It's actually a coffee cake recipe, but I always make it in loaf pans so it's easy to wrap up and gift.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 2 loaves

Ingredients
  

Batter

  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups sour cream

Brown sugar filling

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

How to make this bread

  • Heat oven to 350.  Grease bottom and sides of 2 loaf pans (9 x 5 x 3)
  • Prepare brown sugar filling and set aside.
  • Beat together sugar, butter, vanilla & eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. 
  • Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Beat flour mixture and sour cream alternately into sugar mixture on low speed until blended.
  • Spread 1/4 of the batter (about 1-1/2 cups) into each pan, then sprinkle  each with 1/4 of the filling; top with another 1/4 of the batter, and then top with 1/4 of the filling.
  • Bake for about 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.  Cool slightly; remove from pans and place top side up on wire rack.
  • Let cool completely, then wrap up and take to your friends, or eat the whole loaf by yourself (no judgements here).

29 Comments

  1. Natali says:

    Mmmm, this sounds and looks delicious! Thank you for sharing and happy holidays!

    http://lartoffashion.blogspot.com

  2. Paige Cassandra Flamm says:

    This bread looks delicious! It kinds of reminds me of this amish friendship bread my mom used to make all the time!

    Paige

    http://thehappyflammiy.com

  3. Brianna Soloski says:

    This looks delicious. I’m a little sad I’m lacking the sour cream to make it – would applesauce be an okay substitute?

  4. YUM. this makes me happy.

    xo, k
    pocket of blossoms

  5. Aspen Ballard says:

    This looks AMAZING! I didn’t eat any Christmas cinnamon bread this year 🙁

    Aspen Kelty Marie

  6. Matthew & Alisha Woolsey says:

    I saw you post this on Instastories the other day and wondered how long you cook them for in the smaller pans?

  7. ashley says:

    yum!!!

  8. Yándary says:

    Oh, I’m so glad this link is working again! I was looking for it just yesterday and kept getting an error message. Love this recipe!

    • me too! I was going crazy getting an error message when I was wanting to bake it for our church fellowship and then decided she must be re-posting it soon with updated photos or something. whew!! 🙂

  9. Patricia says:

    I do something similar; I make pumpkin bread in four loaf batches. Last batch is in the oven right now. It’s easy and everybody loves it. So win win in my book.

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  11. Elena says:

    Just made these this afternoon for our FAMILY Christmas. People were going for seconds and scraping the sugary remnants off the plate. It was DELICIOUS!! Definitely making again. Thanks so much for sharing!

  12. Nicole Price says:

    i MADE THIS CINNAMON BREAD LAST WEEK FOR A GROUP OF PEOPLE. eVERYONE LOVED IT AND WANTED MORE. 2 LOAVES WERE GONE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THANKS FOR THE RECIPe!

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  14. Liz says:

    Do you know if this freezes well? Looks delicious!

  15. Kelli says:

    Love this idea. Just wondering what you used and where to buy clear bags to wrap up bread?

  16. Laurie says:

    Just made this. your instructions say to end with 1/4 of filling in the bread pans. When the bread is baked and you take it out of the pan, of course you turn it upside down so the filling ends up on the bottom, Not what I expected.

    • Nikki says:

      If you line your pans in parchment, You can just lift it right OuT. It’s not as easy if you’re doing like an 8” round, but for quickbread Tins its Simple and better for you anyway.

  17. Jihye says:

    I’m thinking about doing these this year. You mentioned you got some disposable pans and baked four at a time. Is that the mini loaf pan? Trying to figure out how many batches I need to make.

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