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.
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).