Cinnamon Nutmeg Quick Bread - Laura

Cinnamon Nutmeg Quick Bread

Lately, there's not really any time to make anything that isn't quick (but still yummy), so that's the spirit of this cinnamon bread:)  both my apartment-mates love cinnamon, so I decided to whip up a quick cinnamon bread since I (sadly) did not have the ingredients for creating the more instinctive banana/carrot/zucchini breads. Anyways, it turned out warm and cinnamon-y and delicious - a perfect sweet bread with milk or coffee or tea or anything!   

Cinnamon Quick Bread

Difficulty: Easy

Yields: 1 loaf

Time: ~ 1 hour

Ingredients: 

2 cups all purpose flour

0.75 or 1 cup dark brown sugar (depending on how sweet you like things)

1 cup buttermilk* 

1 large egg

1 tsp baking soda

dash of salt

4 T neutral oil (I used sunflower, which is nearly neutral...but canola and grape seed oils work well too)

1 tsp nutmeg 

dash cinnamon

Cinnamon Sugar:

0.33 or 0.5 cup white sugar (again, depending on how sweet you want it to be)

3 T cinnamon 

Note:

If you do not have buttermilk (I didn't have buttermilk when I made this last night :( ), here is a good substitution:

1 T white vinegar (or rice vinegar, which is a little sweeter and less acidic, but it also works)

milk

Put the tablespoon of vinegar into a cup, then fill up the rest of the cup to the top with milk. Let sit for 10 minutes and then use in the recipe :) 

Process:

1. Mix the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl and mix the wet ingredients together in a smaller bowl.  Combine the two mixtures until they form a wet dough. 

2.  Mix the cinnamon with the white sugar and set aside. 

3.  Preheat the oven to 350° F (the magic baking temperature! yayy). 

3. Line a loaf pan with foil, grease the bottom, and put in half of the dough mixture. Then, spoon half the cinnamon sugar over the dough.  Repeat with the other half of the dough and top with the rest of the cinnamon sugar. 

4. Take a chopstick or a knife and swirl the mixture, just as you would when marbling.

 5. Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes, test for readiness by doing the toothpick-poking thing.  Slice and enjoy! It's the best either right out of the oven or a day or two afterwards :)