Tag: bakery bread

This sweet, buttery bread makes the finest French toast, the sweetest snack, and the tastiest toast. This recipe is designed for the bread machine, which I consider one of the ten greatest inventions of all time. You can customize it with raisins (if you like that sort of nonsense) or finely chopped nuts, by adding them when you sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon on your dough. Go on, give it a swirl!

Ingredients

Bread

• 1 cup Milk
• 1/4 cup Hot Water*
• 1 Large Egg
• 2 tbsp Butter or Margarine, softened
• 1/3 cup White Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 3 cups Bread Flour
• 2 tsp Active Dry Yeast

*Hot tap water is just fine; no additional heating is needed. You just want to warm up the milk and egg a bit as the dough is mixing to give the yeast a fighting chance. 

Swirl

• 4 tbsp Margarine or Butter
• 1/3 cup White Sugar
• 2 tbsp Ground Cinnamon

Directions

1. Place all Bread ingredients in the pan of your bread machine in the order listed.
2. Select the Dough cycle and press Start.
3. Relax while you send an email to Panasonic, expressing your gratitude to them for inventing the home bread machine in 1986.
4. When the dough cycle is complete, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
5. Knead briefly, and roll into a long rectangle approximately 1/2-inch thick, with the shorter side of the dough slightly more narrow than the longer side of your bread pan.
6. To make the swirl, melt butter or margarine.
7. Brush the rectangle of dough with butter or margarine until well coated. Reserve remaining melted butter or margarine.
8. Mix together sugar and cinnamon.
9. Sprinkle cinnamon mixture evenly over buttered dough.
10. Roll the dough tightly, from the shorter side.
11. Spray a bread pan with cooking spray.
12. Place the rolled dough in the pan, with the seam on the bottom.
13. Allow to rise in a warm, quiet place for 30-45 minutes, until doubled in size, and taller than the rim of the bread pan.
14. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
15. Re-melt remaining butter or margarine if needed, and brush loaf with it.
16. Bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
17. Remove from the oven, and transfer to a cooling rack. Allow to cool to room temperature before wrapping.