Cinnamon Raisin Quick Bread is an easy, delicious breakfast, brunch, or dessert recipe with the perfect amount of sweetness made in an hour.
Bread Recipes are such versatile recipes; you can use them for breakfast, brunch, dessert, bake sales, and gifts. This recipe can go toe to toe with classics like Banana Bread and Cranberry Lemon Bread.
Sabrina’s Cinnamon Raisin Quick Bread Recipe
No need to make a special trip to the bakery whenever you are craving a warm, spiced loaf of delicious Cinnamon Raisin Bread. This quick recipe is ready in just about an hour and can be made by hand with common pantry ingredients. You can make this budget-friendly bread for holidays, a weekday afternoon, or for Sunday brunch!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup sugar , divided
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and spray an 8×4 loaf pan with baking spray.
- In a large bowl whisk together the buttermilk, ¾ cup sugar, vegetable oil and egg until smooth.
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and whisk together until just combined.
- Stir in the raisins.
- In a small bowl stir together the remaining ¼ cup sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon.
- Pour half the batter into the loaf pan and sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon mixture over it.
- Add the remaining batter evenly and swirl the internal cinnamon sugar mixture together with a butter knife.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Note from Sabrina
If you don’t have buttermilk on hand you can use 1 cup whole milk and add 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Allow milk and vinegar mixture to sit for 20 minutes at room temperature and then use in this recipe. You can also use sour cream, Greek yogurt, milk, or coconut cream with only slight differences in overall flavor.
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About this Recipe
Cinnamon Raisin Quick Bread is so easy and simple, full of sweet cinnamon sugar that will make your home smell amazing. The warmly spiced bread is packed with raisins, for tasty cinnamon raisin flavor in every bite. If you’ve never made a cinnamon swirl bread before, you won’t believe how easy it is to make at home. What makes this bread extra melt-in-your-mouth delicious is the cup of buttermilk! Mixed with the baking soda, the acid in the buttermilk turns the bread so airy and moist.
Serving Ideas
Enjoy slices of bread with a pat of butter and a mug of hot cocoa for a cozy warm winter treat. You can dust your bread with powdered sugar or frost with Cream Cheese Frosting for dessert or special brunch bread. A drizzle of melted Sugar Cookie Frosting would make a beautiful sweet glaze for holiday gifting.
How to Store
- Serve: Loosely cover bread and store in a cool, dry place at room temperature for up 2 days.
- Store: Keep your bread wrapped in plastic wrap or aluminum foil in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Warm in the oven or bring to room temperature to serve.
- Freeze: Once cooled, wrap whole loaf of bread in plastic wrap and foil, or in a zippered freezer bag, for up to 6 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before serving. You can also wrap individual slices and freeze.
Variations
- Raisins: Instead of regular raisins, try other dried fruit like golden raisins, dried cranberries, or Turkish apricots. You can add fresh berries like chopped cherries, blueberries, or strawberries.
- Spices: You can add more flavor with spices like nutmeg, cardamom, or pumpkin pie spice along with the cinnamon. Try flavors like vanilla extract or almond extract, or add a ½ cup pumpkin puree for Pumpkin Cinnamon Raisin Bread.
- Muffins: Bake Cinnamon Raisin Muffins instead of bread. Divide the batter halfway in lined muffin cups and sprinkle cinnamon sugar. Top with remaining batter, swirl cinnamon sugar and bake for 18-22 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean with moist crumbs.
- Bundt Cake: Double the recipe, add to 10 cup bundt pan and bake at 325 for 60-70 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Can you substitute flour for whole wheat flour ?
You can!
Made a few weeks ago. Delicious & easy. I had a few choc chips & added them. Not mini , they worked o k. Would make this again.
So glad you enjoyed the Quickbread Avis and what a yummy idea!
I was looking for a recipe that didn’t require yeast or I would need to knead the dough bread, I’m not a very experienced dessert Baker, so I can get intimidated by recipes that require all those steps. This turned out beautiful, and filled out the whole pan without the yeast.
Perfect! Thank you Melody for the five star review.
Made 2 loaves today ?
Do you soak the rasians
I didn’t but please feel free to do so.
Absolutely delicious and so easy to make. My family wants me to bake this every week, at least 2 loaves. A winner!
Can you add banana to this ?
Substitute for buttermilk- if using sour cream, do you add vinegar??
Diane, you do not need to add vinegar to the sour cream. To keep the batter the same texture, thin out your sour cream with a little bit of liquid to create a 1:1 substitution. In this recipe, which calls for 1 cup buttermilk, you could mix 3/4 cup sour cream with 1/4 cup milk or water to create 1 cup sour cream mixture.