I’ve been playing with my Best 1 Hour Bread recipe to make a 1 Hour Cinnamon Bread Recipe.

My first attempt at a Cinnamon Bread Recipe turned out rather well, I thought.  But then I had a crazy, wonderful, terrible idea for the season; I literally came up with a twist for Halloween: Cinn-a-Mummy Bread.

The process is quite easy.  I made up a batch of the  Best 1 Hour Bread (with a bit more sugar). ( I made a double batch. — One little monster, which is not pictured, did not escape my kitchen. 🙂  ) I rolled out each piece in a rectangle, so that rolled, up it would fit in a bread pan.  I buttered the rectangles and sprinkled them with a mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon and then neatly rolled them up.

At this point I could have just put them in the prepped pans and waited for them to rise, but I just had to try one more thing; I twisted the loaves.  Just a little Halloween fun, not necessary, really. 😉

As you can see here it was quite a bit, perhaps as much as 6-8 times. I thought they looked quite strange laying in their little bread pan coffins, waiting to puff up. Bwahaha!  (Mad Scientist laugh.)

When they were warm out of the oven I used several cloves to make the eyes on each one and I was going to wait for them to cool.  But then I realized if I was quick, I could deliver these hot ‘Cinn-a-Mummies’ to my neighbors.  And hey, there’s nothing like the lovely surprise of being handed a warm loaf of bread ‘mummied-up’ or not.

As you can see, I rolled them up in plastic wrap and then just went crazy with the string wrapping the loaves and following their ‘mummy’ contours.  I tagged them with a little greeting and delivered them still warm, less than 2 hours after I’d begun my little monster-making project.  Now, go have some fun! — Laura

If you need tags for your loaves, try my Halloween envelopes, here.  

Cinn-a-Mummy 1 Hour Bread ( Cinnamon Bread Recipe )

Laura Hickman

Cinn-a-Mummy good. Delicious toasted and buttered. Great Cinnamon Bread recipe for beginners.

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Prep Time 40 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 2 loaves

Ingredients

  

• 51/4 cups flour
• 2 T. yeast
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 tsps. salt
• 2 ½ cups warm water not too hot and not tepid
• 2 T. olive oil
• 4-6 T. Butter

Cinnamon Mixture:

• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• 1 T. Cinnamon

Instructions

 

• Grease 2 bread pans. (Glass or ceramic preferred.)
• Combine the dry ingredients in mixer using dough hooks for a few seconds on low.
• With mixer on low, slowly pour in warm water and olive oil.
• After ingredients are combined, turn mixer speed to medium.
• Mix for 5 minutes on medium. Dough should mix together and come away cleanly from the sides of the bowl during this time. Dough will be smooth at the end of mixing.
• Oil or grease hands and remover dough from bowl onto clean and lightly-floured counter or silpat and knead it 4-6 times. This is a soft dough, but if it is too sticky too handle, knead in a bit more flour.
• Divide dough evenly into 2 balls and shape or roll into rectangles about a 1/2 inch thick. Spread each with 2-3 T. butter.
• Make Cinnamon mixture by stirring brown sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl.
• Sprinkle each rectangle with 1/2 of cinnamon mixture and roll them up into loaves and place in prepared pans.
• (optional) For Mummy Loaves: Twist each dough loaf 6-8 times and tucking ends under, place in pan.
• Lightly cover loaves with plastic wrap or clean dish towel and sit in a warm place to rise till dough is about double in volume up to 30 minutes.
• While dough is rising, heat oven to 400°.
• Bake loaves for 15-20 minutes, till golden brown. Turn them out onto cooling rack.

Notes

To make the Cinn-a-Mummuies: After they come out of the oven use 2-3 cloves for each of the eyes. After the loaves cools, roll up in plastic wrap, and then wrap with string following the contours of the mummy. Tag for gifting.

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