Cinnamon Swirl Bread

This sweet bread is great on its own, but better when used to make French toast!

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▼CINNAMON SWIRL BREAD▼
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Ingredients:
•½ cup sugar
•¼ cup brown sugar
•1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
•1 ¼ cup milk
•1 stick unsalted butter
•2 egg yolks
•4 ½ cups all purpose flour
•1 tablespoon yeast
•1 ½ teaspoon salt

Directions:
•Melt and let cool ⅜ of a stick (3 tablespoons) of unsalted butter.
•While the butter is cooling, set the milk over low heat for 10 minutes to warm the milk.
•Separate the two egg yolks from the egg whites and set aside the egg yolks.
•In a small bowl, whisk together the sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon until incorporated to make cinnamon sugar.
•In a separate bowl, whisk together the warm milk, ⅜ of a stick (3 tablespoons) of melted butter and egg yolks until incorporated.
•Using a stand mixer with the dough hook attachment, mix on low 3 ½ cups of all purpose flour, the yeast, salt and a cup of the cinnamon sugar.
•While the mixer is running, slowly pour in the milk and egg mixture.
•Mix on medium until the ingredients have mixed together.
•Once the ingredients have mixed increase the mixer to high for 4 minutes.
•After 4 minutes of mixing, check to see if the dough is sticking to the side of the bowl. If the dough is not sticking to the sides, mix on high for another 4 minutes. If the dough is sticking to the sides, add ½ a cup of all purpose flour, mix on low until the flour is incorporated and then mix on high for another 4 minutes.
•Spray the interior of a large bowl and its lid with cooking spray.
•Move the dough, which may still be very sticky into the sprayed bowl.
•Attach the lid to the bowl and let rise in a cool, dry place for 2 hours, or until it the dough has doubled in size.
•Melt and let cool ½ a stick (4 tablespoons) of unsalted butter.
•Spray a bread pan with cooking spray.
•Sprinkle all purpose flour on a clean, flat surface.
•Move the dough from the bowl to the floured surface.
•Sprinkle flour on the dough.
•Roll the dough out into a large rectangular shape.
•Brush the melted butter on the face up side of the rolled out dough until the entire surface has a thin layer of melted butter. There should be some melted butter left over.
•Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar over the face up side of the rolled out dough.
•Roll up the short side of the dough from one end to the other.
•Pinch the ends of the rolled up dough and fold them under the dough to form a loaf.
•Place the loaf of dough in the sprayed bread pan.
•Using the left over melted butter, brush the top and sides of the loaf.
•Cover the loaf with a towel and let rise for an hour and a half, or until it the dough has doubled in size.
•If all of the melted butter was used, melt and let cool ⅛ of a stick (1 tablespoon) of unsalted butter.
•Preheat an oven to 350 degrees.
•Remove the towel from over the bread dough and brush the top and sides of the loaf with the melted butter.
•Bake in a 350 degree oven for 55 minutes.
•Let cool for an hour before serving.

So one of my favorite family traditions is to make cinnamon swirl bread for Christmas. I used to give it away as gifts and then keep some just for our house. And then we discovered that if you slice it up on Christmas morning and you make French toast out of it, it’s really, really good.

So today we’re going to make cinnamon swirl bread. I’m going to start with half a cup of sugar,… a/4 of a cup of brown sugar… and a teaspoon and a half of cinnamon. And we’re going to swirl, whisk those together. That looks good. Then I’m going to take…

One and a quarter cups of milk that I’ve had on the stove. I’ve put it on low for about 10 minutes so that it can get just warm. I don’t want it hot. I don’t want it boiling. Just want it warmed up just a little. So that’s a cup and a quarter.

I’m going to add 3 tablespoons of butter that’s melted and cooled… and two egg yolks. Whisk that together real quick. All right. Now in my mixer I have three and a half cups of all purpose flour. I’m going to add a tablespoon of yeast. I’m going to add 1 and a half teaspoons of salt.

And then I’m going to add a cup of this cinnamon sugar mixture that we just made. Just like that. Then we’re going to stir it together. And then slowly I’m going to add the milk mixture. And I want to mix it until the dough just just comes together. And then we’ll put it on high.

All of the dry ingredients are getting stuck on the sides. So I’m just going to push them and mix them around a little to get the dough to come together. Let’s try this again. It’s working much better. So we’re going to form a dough. And then we’re going to let the dough…

The mixer do the kneading of the dough for about 8 minutes. At 4 minutes we’re going to check it. As long as the dough is coming off the sides of the bowl, even if it’s still sticking to the bottom, it’s good.

If it’s not, if it’s sticking to the sides of the bowl, we’re going to have to add more flour. So I’m going to turn this on high; and then we’ll be back in 4 minutes to check on it. Okay. The dough is still sticking to the sides of the bowl.

So I have another half a cup of flour that we’re going to add. I’m going to turn it on low to incorporate the flour. We’re going to turn it back to high and knead for another 4 minutes. All right, our bread has been kneading for eight minutes. I’m going to take a bowl and just spray it with Pam…

Cooking spray. The dough is going to be a little sticky. Don’t worry about it. It’ll… stop being that way once it rises. Then I’m going to… pour the dough into this bowl. I like to use a bowl that has a lid.

If you don’t have one that’s big enough for it to rise, because this needs to double in size, just use Saran Wrap. And make sure you spray the top of the Saran, or the bottom of the Saran Wrap that’s touching the dough, so it doesn’t get stuck to it when you go to… take it out.

Because, as you can see, the dough is very, very sticky. There we go. And now I’m going to spray the lid to my bowl… so that if it rises it hits this and doesn’t get stuck.

And now we need to sit this in a cool, dry place for about an hour and a half to 2 hours, so that it can rise. It needs to be double in size before we move on to the next step. So our dough has had time to rise.

Just so you know, in a cold house bread won’t rise. So we had to put a… heating pad underneath it. That’s what it’s called. Anyway we’ll get to that, because we’re going to let it rise on a heating pad after I roll it out. So here is our lovely dough,… double in size. Yay.

Now I’m going to sprinkle some flour on my table. Pat it down. And we’re going to roll this out. I like a lot of swirls in my cinnamon bread. So you’re going to see me roll it out super good. You want mostly a rectangle. There we go.

All right. Now I have seen the filling  go many ways. Some people use water. I’m using butter because I like it better. So I took four tablespoons of butter and melted it and cooled it down. So I’m just going to brush it on.

If you don’t have a brush, but you have a spray bottle of water that works too, or butter or oil. Whatever you can use to kind of moisten the bread, the dough so that the cinnamon sugar will stick to it. Okay. Now we added the cinnamon sugar mixture into our bread.

And then we left about two tablespoons left over. That’s what this is. So I’m going to take it and sprinkle it. Just like that. There we go. Now I’m going to take the shorter side and roll up. Just like that. I’m going to take the sides, the ends pinch them and fold them underneath. Just like that.

And then I’m going to set it in my greased… bread pan. I’m going to take that remaining butter… and I’m just going to brush it over the top so it doesn’t dry out while we’re letting it rise again. It’s going to need another hour and a half… to rise again until it’s double in size before we bake it.

And we’re going to keep… There’s probably a tablespoon of butter left. We’re going to keep it. And we’re going to re-… butter before we bake it. This… Our house is… normally much warmer than it is right now. But it’s a little cold outside. Didn’t want to turn the gas on, the  heat on.

So what we’re going to do is take a heating pad. I have a nice, big, fancy heating pad. It’s very long. So I’m just going to stick my heating pad… I’m going to turn it on. I’m going to keep it on low, where the L is. Put my bread on top.

Put a towel on top of it so it doesn’t get drafty. And we’re going to let it sit here for another hour and a half so that it can rise until double in size. And then we’ll be back to bake.

So with the help of our heating pad to keep the bread warm, it has risen to double in its size. Took about 2 hours. And then… Now I’m going to take my last remaining tablespoon of melted butter. And I’m just going to brush it over the top and sides.

And then we’re going to pop this in a 350° oven for 55 minutes. And then we’ll be back. So our cinnamon bread has been in the oven for 55 minutes. Now it is out. We got to let it cool about an hour and then we can slice into it. I’m so excited. If I could…

Portray how this smells through the internet, I so would because it smells divine.