Cinnamon Bread
Last week I made some cinnamon swirl bread from scratch. I had a day off from work and decided that it would be a 'fun' activity to make some bread. Originally I was going to make white bread, but I decide the cinnamon bread would taste better. This bread was great with a little butter and a cup of coffee. I have included some pictures of the bread making process.
It is important to monitor the temperature of the liquids you are going to mix with the yeast because if it is too hot your yeast will die and your bread wont rise.
This is a picture of the yeast and water mixture.
You know the yeast is ready to be used when the water, sugar and yeast have risen a bit in the measuring cup. I don't know if the word risen is the correct word, its more like bubbles and had an obvious chemical reaction. It also shows that you didn't kill the yeast by having too hot of water.
This is the dough before it has had a chance to rise. For this kind of bread I had to let it rise for about an hour before it was ready to be put in the loaf pans.
The finished loaf! Delicious!
