Cinnamon Swirl Bread for the Bread Machine

Use the dough cycle of your bread machine to make two delicious loaves of cinnamon-walnut bread. Once the dough is ready, it's simple to form the spiral loaves and bake them in the oven. Your house will smell like heaven.

• Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins
• Calories: 152 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• ½ cup packed brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup chopped walnuts
• ¼ cup butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
• 4 cups bread flour
• 2 tablespoons softened butter, divided
• 2 teaspoons sifted confectioners' sugar, divided (Optional)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Place milk, eggs, 1/4 cup butter, bread flour, sugar, salt, and yeast into a bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer, select the dough setting, and start the machine. When dough cycle is complete, transfer dough to a floured work surface and punch down. Let dough rest for 10 minutes.

Step 3

Mix walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a bowl.

Step 4

Divide dough in half and roll each half into a rectangle about 9x14 inches. Spread 1 tablespoon softened butter over the top of each dough rectangle and evenly sprinkle dough with half the walnut mixture. Roll dough rectangles, starting from the short ends, and pinch seams closed.

Step 5

Grease 2 9x5-inch loaf pans. Fit the rolled loaves into the loaf pans with seam sides down. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled in size, about 30 minutes.

Step 6

Bake loaves in the preheated oven until lightly golden brown and bread sounds hollow when tapped, about 30 minutes. If loaves brown too quickly, lightly cover with aluminum foil for the last 10 minutes of baking. Let bread cool for 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling on wire racks. Sprinkle tops of each loaf with 1 teaspoon confectioners' sugar.