The ideal breakfast for Christmas morning! Easy too! Prepare the night before and pop in the oven Christmas morning. SO DELISH! Your family will sing Hallelujah!
Category Archives: Breads
BEER BREAD
Ingredients
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 (12-ounce) can of beer
2 tablespoons butter, melted, optional
Directions
Stir all ingredients together. Place in greased loaf pan and bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour or until golden. Brush top with melted butter, if desired.
Makes 12 servings, each with 153 calories, 2 grams fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 3 grams protein, 27 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram fiber, 277 grams sodium.
Amish Friendship Bread
Begin with Basic Starter Dough
Important Preparations
- Don’t use a metal spoon or metal bowl for mixing.
- Don’t refrigerate.
- If air gets in bag-let it out.
- It is normal for the batter to thicken, bubble and ferment.
Day 1: You receive fermented batter in gallon zip-lock bag. Do nothing; just place the bag on the kitchen counter.
Day 2: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 3: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 4: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 5: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 6: Add 1-cup flour, 1-cup sugar and 1-cup milk, squeeze bag several times.
Day 7: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 8: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 9: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 10: Baking day: Gather the following ingredients in preparation to bake:
flour, sugar, oil, vanilla, eggs, salt, milk, baking soda, large box instant vanilla pudding,
and cinnamon.
In large non-metallic bowl, combine batter with 1-cup flour, 1-cup sugar, and 1-cup milk. Mix with wooden or plastic spoon. Pour four (4) 1-cup starters into 1-gallon zip-lock bags and give them away to family or friends with a copy of the recipe.
To remaining batter in bowl add 1-cup oil, 1-cup sugar, 1-tsp vanilla, 3 eggs, 1/2-cup milk, 1-tsp salt, 2-cups flour, ½ -tsp. Baking soda, 1-large box instant vanilla pudding and 2-tsp. Cinnamon.
In separate bowl, mix 1-tsp. Cinnamon and 3-tsp. Sugar, sprinkle into 2 or 3 well-greased loaf pans (I use cooking spray). Pour batter into pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 Min. or until toothpick comes out almost clean. Don’t over-bake. When varying the recipes only use this sprinkle for the date nut and banana nut breads.
You can be really be creative with this recipe. I have experimented and come up with quite a nice variety of breads.
Optional additions to batter- for Date Nut Bread are in 1/3-cup or more amounts: raisins, dates, nuts.- for Banana Nut Bread: mash one large or two small bananas add them and 1/2 cup nuts. – for Chocolate Bread: chocolate chips, chocolate pudding instead of vanilla pudding, vanilla instead of cinnamon and no cinnamon and sugar sprinkled in pan. – for Christmas Bread: diced candied Christmas cherries, raisins and nuts.- for Maraschino Cherry Bread I substitute cherry juice from the jar of maraschino cherries instead of the vanilla and cinnamon and dice the cherries.- for Pumpkin Bread I use the basic ingredients from my pumpkin pie recipe.- likewise for Carrot Bread I use the basic ingredients from my carrot cake recipe. Having Philadelphia Cream Cheese frosting to spread on the carrot bread makes it a real hit.
You can also freeze a starter or two so that you have one to bake with the next year. When it comes out of the freezer, treat that as day 1.
Enjoy!
Amish Friendship Bread Starter
QUICK AND EASY CRUMB CAKE
BATTER:
3 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2/3 c. milk
Cream together butter and sugar. Add and stir in egg, flour, baking powder and milk. Spread in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
CRUMB MIXTURE:
2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
2 sticks butter
2 tbsp. cinnamon
Mix all ingredients for crumb mixture together in a separate bowl and drop over batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
Easy Molasses Sticky Buns
| 12 Servings | Prep: 20 Min. + Rising Bake: 25 Min. |
Ingredients
- 2 loaves (16 ounces each) frozen bread dough, thawed
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- MOLASSES SAUCE:
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup molasses
- Chopped pecans or walnuts if desired
Directions
- Roll out each loaf of bread dough into a 10-in. square. Spread with butter to within 1/2 in. of edges. Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over butter. Roll up jelly-roll style; pinch seams to seal. Cut each loaf into six slices.
- For sauce, in a small saucepan, bring the brown sugar, butter, water and molasses to a boil. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with nuts if desired. Place rolls, cut side down, in molasses sauce.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in dish for 5 minutes; invert onto a serving platter. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
