How to Make Ultimate Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be smell and look delicious.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins Recipe. I also sprinkled few more raisins on top on butter, cinnamon sugar before rolling. I used butter instead of oil in last step before rolling.

You can have Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins

1. You need 1 1/2 cups of warm water.
2. You need 1 cup of warm milk.
3. Make ready 1 1/2 tablespoons of yeast.
4. It’s 6 cups of flour.
5. You need 7 tablespoons of white sugar.
6. Take 6 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter.
7. You need 2 teaspoons of salt.
8. It’s 2 1/2 tablespoons of cinnmon.
9. Make ready 1 cups of raisins.
10. Take 3 tablespoons of brown sugar.

In a large measuring cup or bowl mix together milk, brown sugar and yeast.If it doesn't foam, discard and start over.Add butter, eggs and vanilla to the bowl of stand mixer fitted with a dough hook.Turn on low and add the bloomed yeast mixture, mixing just.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread with Raisins instructions

1. Combine 1 1/2 cups water, yeast, milk, and 2 cups of flour in a mixing bowl. Set aside to sponge for 15-20 minutes, until risen and bubbly..
2. Put the raisins in a small bowl and cover them with hot water. Let the raisins plump for at least 10 minutes. Drain and set aside..
3. Add 2 tb melted butter, 4 tb white sugar, 1/2 tb cinnmon, salt, and 4 cups of flour to the yeast bowl. Mix until dough starts to clean sides of bowl..
4. Place dough on flowered surface and knead for 10 minutes. Add only a few tablespoons of flour at a time if dough sticks to surface, being careful not to add too much..
5. Pat dough into an oval. Sprinkled about half the raisins over the top and fold the dough like a letter. Pat it into an oval again, sprinkle the remaining raisins, and fold it again. Knead the dough by hand for a few minutes to distribute the raisins through the dough..
6. Put dough into a greased bowl. Cover with a clean dish towel and let rise in a warm place for about 60 minutes, or until doubled in size..
7. Punch down the dough in the bowl with your fist and cut in half. Place half of dough onto a floured surface and knead for about 1 minute. Repete with second half..
8. Roll dough out to form two rectangular shapes. Spread 4 tb softened butter on the surface of the rolled out dough..
9. In a small bowl, mix 3 tb white sugar, 3 tb brown sugar, and 2 tb cinnamon. Sprinkle this mixture on top of the buttered dough..
10. Roll up dough and form into two loafs. Place into 2 buttered bread pans, seam side down. Cover with a clean dish towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 45 minutes..
11. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F..
12. Bake bread for 30 minutes, or until golden brown, rotating halfway through if needed..
13. Immediately remove from pans to cool on a rack. Allow to completely cool before slicing..

In a bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water.The stretch and fold technique + bread flour is used for optimal height and crumb structure.; Raisins are incorporated into the dough (not into the filling) for easier rolling.Flour binds the cinnamon-sugar swirl together so it doesn't leak out of the loaf!

Is cinnamon swirl bread with raisins hard to make?I don't feel like this cinnamon raisin bread is hard to make, but it does require many simple steps to achieve a properly risen loaf.Each step is well detailed on the printable recipe card making it appear more difficult than it is.For a deep-dark, moist, cinnamon swirl inside the bread, we like to blend together sugar, cinnamon, raisins or currants, and flour until smooth.The addition of raisins or currants adds moistness, as well as subtle flavor.