Amish Friendship Bread
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Servings: 10
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe – The most delicious bread I’ve ever eaten. The recipe starts with making a sweet sourdough starter. You can get 10 loaves with one batch! Great for gift giving! If you don’t need 10 loaves of bread, you can freeze the starter in plastic bags and make bread later. Yeast, water, flour sugar, milk, eggs, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, vanilla pudding, baking powder and baking soda. We LOVE this quick and easy sweet bread!
Recipe Type: Dessert
Total Time: 1 hr 10 min
Starter:
1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup warm milk
Feeding:
2 cups all-purpose flour (divided)
2 cups sugar (divided)
2 cups milk (divided)
Bread:
3 eggs
1 cup oil
1/2 cup milk
1 cup sugar
2 tsps cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 (5.1-ounce) package instant vanilla pudding (any flavor will work)
Topping:
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsps cinnamon
To make starter:
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for 10 minutes. Stir well. In a large glass bowl, combine flour and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Stir in the milk and yeast mixture. Pour starter into a ziplock bag. Date ziplock bag so you know what day is “Day 1”.
Day 1: Do nothing. This is the date you made/received the bag. Squish the starter in the bag.
Day 2: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 3: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 4: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 5: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 6: Add to the bag 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Squish the bag
Day 7: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 8: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 9: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
Day 10: Baking Day!
Making the bread:
Pour the entire contents of the ziploc bag into a large glass bowl and add: 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Mix well.
Reserve one cup of the starter to make bread. Divide the remaining 4 cups of the starter mixture between 4 ziploc bags. Make sure to date the bags. Keep one bag for yourself and give 3 bags away with the instructions.
Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
In a small bowl combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1½ tsp cinnamon. Spray two 9-inch bread pans with nonstick cooking spray. Dust the pans with half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Set aside.
In a large glass bowl (the one you made the starter in), add one cup of reserved starter and ingredients for bread. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pans. Top with remaining cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 1 hour.