Cake Mix Cinnamon Bread

Delicious and super easy cinnamon bread! 2 marbled loaves. Made with yellow cake mix, cinnamon and brown sugar topped with icing. Weekend breakfast goals!

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★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★

So easy, kids can make this cake mix cinnamon bread!

Not only do kids love the taste of this cinnamon bread, it's also super simple to make. Easier than chocolate chip cookies even. So, any kid who can use safely a hand mixer, can make this bread.

★ How to Make this Recipe ★

Check out this how-to video that shows how easily this cinnamon cake mix bread comes together.

★ Tips & FAQs ★

Storage

This bread can be stored at room temperature, wrapped in plastic, for up to 2 days. Storing the refrigerator, this bread will last up to 7 days.

This bread is also freezer-friendly. Wrap in plastic wrap and you can freeze for up to 6 months.

Make cinnamon muffins instead of loaves of bread.

I make this recipe using two loaf pans.

However, you can easily convert this recipe into muffins. Just use the same layering process in your greased or lined muffins cups, and then bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Makes 24 muffins.

Try adding nuts.

You can add chopped pecans or any kind of chopped nuts you enjoy. Just stir them right into the batter.

Icing Optional

The bread is absolutely delicious and moist all on its own and truly doesn't even need icing. I actually prefer it without and it's less sugar that way too. However, icing does dress it up a bit so it's nice to have as an option if you're serving this for a special occasion.

Flavor Boosting

A small amount of salt can really bring flavors out so add a dash of salt to your batter if you want, it's fine if you don't though too. It's just an extra flavor boost and won't affect the baking process.

I also enjoy the cinnamon and nutmeg combination. Nutmeg has a nutty flavor and that goes so well with cinnamon and sugar. Add it in if you love it too. If you're not sure, smell it first and if it smells good, go for it. Just a few dashes will do. If you don't have it, don't like it, or even just forget, no worries! You don't need it.

Don't have brown sugar?

Brown sugar add to the flavor of this cinnamon bread, but it's not 100% necessary. If you're fresh out of brown sugar, you can use regular sugar instead. So for this recipe, you'd just be doubling the white sugar.

Try honey or maple syrup as a sweetener.

Both of the natural sweeteners can be use in place of sugar in this recipe! You can completely replace the sugar with honey or maple syrup, or you can just substitute part of the sugar. You can swap whatever quantity you want using a 1:1 ratio. Cook time may be affect, so just use the toothpick method to check for doneness if you make any substitutions.

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This easy recipe for Cake Mix Cinnamon Bread was featured on South Your Mouth!!

Author: Angela G.

Delicious and super easy cinnamon bread! 2 marbled loaves. Made with yellow cake mix, cinnamon and brown sugar topped with icing. Weekend breakfast goals!

4.8 from 15 reviews

Ingredients

Bread Batter

▢ 15.25 oz box yellow or white cake mix
▢ 3 eggs
▢ 1 cup milk
▢ ⅓ cup softened butter or use cooking oil
▢ ¼ cup sugar
▢ ¼ cup brown sugar
▢ 2 tablespoon cinnamon
▢ dash of salt Optional
▢ 2 dashes nutmeg Optional

Icing

▢ ½ cup powdered sugar
▢ 1 tablespoon milk
▢ ¼ teaspoon vanilla

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Make batter. In a large bowl combine cake mix, eggs, milk and butter using a hand mixer. Beat at a medium speed for 2 minutes.
Prepare bread pans. Grease two loaf pans with cooking spray or additional butter.
Make cinnamon sugar. In a small bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon. Stir with a fork until blended.
Fill pans. Add a layer of batter to each, just enough to cover the whole bottom of the bread pan.
Spoon a layer of cinnamon sugar on top of the layer of batter in each loaf pan.
Repeat layers until batter and cinnamon sugar is used up. Use a knife to spread out the cinnamon as needed. You can swirl the cinnamon sugar for a marbled look if you want.
Bake. Place bread pans in oven on the middle rack and bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean.
Make icing. In a small bowl mix together icing ingredients using a fork, until smooth.
Cool and add icing. When loaves are done baking, remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minutes then top with icing using a spoon or a piping bag to drizzle icing over each loaf.
Serve or store. Slice and serve or let cool and icing harden, then wrap in plastic wrap for later.

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Notes

Cook time will vary depending on loaf pan size and shape.

I use 9.5" x 5" loaf pans. You can use others sizes, but the cook time may vary. Thicker loaves typically require more time, smaller loaves less time. Mini loaves I've found take about 22-25 minutes to set.

If I'm unsure of the bake time for the size pan I'm using, as a rule of thumb, I check all my baked recipes using a toothpick inserted into the center. It's done as soon as the toothpick comes out clean. I check about half way through the bake time and then add more bake time, as needed. If you're using a non-standard size pan, you can try this method.

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