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 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.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 15

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 judgments here).

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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!)

This Christmas bread is a crowd pleaser!