Easy Cinnamon Bread

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups / 375g plain flour (all purpose flour)
• 1 cup / 220g white sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup / 125 ml vegetable oil
• 1 1/3 cups / 290g sour cream (Note 1)
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 60g / 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon powder
• 3/4 cup / 165 g brown sugar, packed

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types).
2. Grease a loaf tin approximately 21 x 11 cm / 8″ x 4″ and line with baking paper, leaving overhang (see video).
3. Place Dry Ingredients in a bowl and whisk to combine.
4. Place Wet Ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk until combined.
5. Place Cinnamon Sugar ingredients in a bowl and mix to combine (it should be like a slurry, see video).
6. Make a well in the Dry Ingredients bowl. Pour in Wet Ingredients, then mix 12 – 15 times until just combined (few lumps ok, see video).
7. Spoon about 1/4 of the batter into the tin (about 1.5cm / 3/5″ deep) and smooth surface.
8. Dollop about 1/3 of the Cinnamon Sugar over the batter.
9. Top with half the remaining batter. Dollop the remaining Cinnamon Sugar over the batter. Drag a butter knife back and forth (lengthwise and cross wisto make the swirls. Top with remaining batter – dollop it on, the more the Cinnamon Sugar is moved about, the more swirls!
10. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes. Then remove and cover with foil, and bake for a further 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
11. Stand in the tin for 5 minutes before lifting it out onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool before slicing (can still be warm but don’t slice while hot, may crumble). Moist and flavoursome enough to eat plain but a little extra butter doesn’t hurt!