The best cinnamon-raisin homemade bread
Hey y’all, it’s tasty Tuesday again!
Here’s another bread recipe I tried last time I baked bread. I decided on a whiff to make my own cinnamon-raisin sweet bread and improvised the ingredients…
To my upmost surprise, it came out amazingly great! It tastes just like a great bakery bought cinnamon-raisin bread! The flavour brought back memories of Sunday breakfasts I had when I was a child. My mother used to buy two of these cinnamon-raisin bread, the ones wrapped in red plastic. I could eat 4 or 5 of these toast as they were soooo good!

The best cinnamon-raisin bread
2014-04-28 20:04:11

Yields 2
A sweet cinnamon-raisin bread that tastes just like the best store bought version!
French bread dough
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cup bread flour
- 3/4 teaspoon yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water (room temperature)
Sweet bread
- French bread dough
- 1 1/4 all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 bread flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon yeast
- 1 cup room temperature water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup high quality dried raisins
- 1 teaspoon grounded cinnamon
Instructions
- Day 1: Prepare the French bread dough
- Mix together all dry ingredients
- Slowly add water until you reach the desired consistency (aka sticky but not too much)
- Knead lightly by hand for about 6 minutes
- Let rise 1 1/2 hour or until doubled in size
- Punch down, cover and refrigerate overnight
Day 2: Sweet bread
- 1 hour before making the batch, let the French bread dough warm up at room temperature to get the chill out.
- Mix together the French bread dough, flour, yeast, salt, sugar, raisins and cinnamon.
- Add water until the dough is sticky, but not too much.
- Knead by hand for 10 minutes.
- Let rise in a greased bowl for 1 1/2 hour or until doubled in size.
- Deflate, let rise again for 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hour or until doubled in size.
- Shape and put into greased pans.
- Preheat oven @400F.
- Let rise for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Bake at 400F for about 40 minutes.
Notes
- Sweet breads bake faster than unsweetened ones, so make sure the oven is not too hot.
- You can add an egg glaze prior to baking for a nicer look.
- Tip: Adding a cup of hot water in a pan inside a warmed oven just when putting the pans inside the oven will create steam and give the bread one last small rise.
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