Cinnamon Chip Cream Cheese Bread

I made a slight change to the recipe.  The Wednesday Baker made it with blueberries instead of cinnamon chips.  Blueberries are good but we aren't big blueberry fans here.  And let's be honest... cinnamon chips rocks.  So it's maybe not as healthy but man, oh man.  I can't even tell you how delicious it was!

And it is called bread.  So to me, that means I can eat it for breakfast.  Right??? 

Make sure you read the directions before you start, just so nothing sneaks up on you (like beating the egg whites or adding the glaze before you cook it.

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Bread

Source: Adapted from The Wednesday Baker

Bread

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 egg whites
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 bag Hershey's Cinnamon Chips 

Cream Cheese Filling

• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp. flour
• 1 egg

Glaze

• 2 Tbsp. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. water

Make the cream cheese filling first.  Beat all of the ingredients until smooth.  Set aside.

Make the glaze.  Mix all ingredients and set aside.

So far, so good, right?

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.  Add the vanilla and mix.  Add the egg yolks (the whites will be used later so save them!)  and mix well.  Alternate adding the flour and baking powder and the milk.  Mix after each addition.

In another bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.  Add the 1/4 cup sugar, 1 Tbsp. at a time, until egg whites are stiff.  

Fold the egg whites into the batter mixture. All all but about 1/2 cup of the cinnamon chips.  Stir.

Add the 1/2 cup of cinnamon chips to the cream cheese mixture (if you want.)

Pour half of the batter into a greased and floured loaf pan.  Top with the cream cheese layer and spread to make it even.  Add the rest of the batter and spread it out.  

Pour the glaze over the uncooked batter.

Cook in a 350 degree oven for 55 - 60 minutes.

Let cool completely before taking out of the pan.  

Oh man.  It was amazing!  I didn't let it cool completely because I wanted to eat a slice (or two) when it was still a little warm.  It was "fragile" to handle while warm but oh so worth it.  It was amazing!!!  (Did I already say that???)

I loved the crunchy, sweet top.  

Enjoy!

 

Great Harvest Cinnamon Chip Copycat Bread

We've recently discovered Great Harvest Bread Company.   This is a good and a bad thing.  Good because they are awesome!  Bad because we could eat a loaf of their bread in about 3 days (and that's with me rationing it out to my kids.)  They absolutely love it.  Their favorite is their Cinnamon Chip Bread.  It's amazing!!!

After buying (and consuming) 7 loaves of Cinnamon Chip Bread in the past 6 weeks I decided I'd better try to make it.  Keep in mind I am not a bread maker.  Bread is hard to make.  I used to have a bread machine and it was a piece of cake.  But there is something about mixing everything together and kneading it, etc. that just is more than I am capable of.  But I thought I'd give it another try.  You know, for the children.  =o)

It's still hard.  And mine didn't turn out like the very cool picture on Pinterest.  But the taste was wonderful and my kids gobbled it up.

If you can't find cinnamon chips in your area, I'm super sorry.  But you can make your own.

Homemade Cinnamon Chips

Source: The Recipe Link

3 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons shortening (I would use butter instead)

2 teaspoons corn syrup

In a large bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, shortening and corn syrup with a fork until crumbly and evenly blended. Spread onto a foil-lined baking sheet.

Bake at 250 degrees F for 30-40 minutes or until melted and bubbly. Cool completely; break into small pieces.

Not too difficult and well worth it to make this amazing bread.  Oh, and here's a couple more reasons to make these chips if you can't buy them.  Cinnamon Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars and Cinnamon Chip Oatmeal Cookies.

Great Harvest Cinnamon Chip Copycat Bread

Source: Rae Gun Ramblings

* 1 cup warm water

* 1 cup warm milk

* 1 package yeast

* 1/3 cup sugar

* 1/3 cup vegetable oil

* 1 egg

* 1/2 Tbsp. salt

* 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 cups all purpose flour

* 1 cup cinnamon chips

In a mixer, add warm water, milk, sugar and yeast.  Let sit for about 5 minutes to get all bubbly.

Add oil and egg and mix well.  Slowly add 2 cups flour and mix well.  Add salt.  Add 1/2 cup flour at a time until it comes away from the side of the bowl.  Add the cinnamon chips when it gets close to the consistency you want.  The dough will be very sticky but Marissa says the softer the dough, the lighter the bread.  So use the least amount of dough you can handle.

Let rise in the mixing bowl for about 30 minutes.

Divide dough between 2 greased and floured loaf pans.

Cover and let rise for another 30 minutes.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30-45 minutes.

Cool on a wire rack for 5 or 10 minutes and then remove from pan and cool completely on rack.  (Or eat it warm.  That's what we did.)

I'm not sure what I did wrong but it's not as light and fluffy as I had hoped.

This was my first batch.

Kind of saggy in the middle.

So I tried it again and this is what we got.

Still a little saggy in the middle but better.  But the taste is amazing.  How can you go wrong with cinnamon chips?!?!  I'll answer that.  You can't!

Any tips on bread making (besides give it up?)  I'd love to hear them! 

 

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Cinnamon Roll Waffles

Sometimes I wonder if I make these delicious breakfast treats for my kids or for me. For argument sake... we're going to say I make these for my kids.   Yah, that's what I do.

And it's no secret that we love pancakes.  The cinnamon roll pancakes we made were amazing.  My kids request them all the time!  And it's always fun to make colorful pancakes.   My kids also love it when I make shapes out of pancakes.   And our cake batter pancakes?  Oh man!  So how can I top all of that???

Cinnamon Roll Waffles!  So easy and so delicious!

I used a waffle/pancake mix and made some waffles.  You can make homemade waffles if you so choose.  But really?  At 6am sometimes I just don't want to!

In a bowl mix up

* 1/2 cup brown sugar

* 1 tsp. cinnamon

* 3 Tbls. melted butter

If you need to thin it, use some milk.

In another bowl mix

* 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

* 1/2 tsp. butter, melted

* 1/2 tsp. vanilla

* 1-3 tsp. milk

Drizzle cinnamon "sauce" and icing over waffles.

Enjoy!

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Cinnamon Sticks & Some Winners

We seem to be on a cinnamon roll.  Ha!  Get it... cinnamon roll.  Cinnamon roll?  Oh man.  It's early.  I haven't had enough sleep and I'm getting rummy.  But what do I do when I'm super tired and my kids won't let me sleep?  I bake.  Yep.  I know, it's crazy.  But I do.  Have you noticed that most of the pictures of my kids helping me in the kitchen they are in their pajamas?  That's because it's most likely before 8am.

I knew my kids would love these cinnamon sticks.  They're everything we love: cinnamon, frosting, dough.  Oh man!  And they were so easy to make.  I love things like that.  I have a feeling these will be a favorite for my kids when we have people over. 

Thank you Jam Hands for this awesome recipe!

Ingredients:

* refrigerated pizza dough

* melted buter

* cinnamon and sugar

Frosting:

* powdered sugar

* milk

* butter or butter flavoring

Unroll the pizza dough and roll either out into a circle or a rectangle.

Cut with a pizza cutter into strips but don't separate them.

Brush with melted butter.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes.  Make sure you don't over cook the dough.

While it's cooking, make the frosting.  Its the simple powdered sugar and milk frosting.  You could use cream cheese frosting (yum) or maple frosting too.  That would be tasty!

Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

Drizzle with frosting and serve warm.

Yep, my kids LOVED them!!!

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