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Making this bread made me very happy. The kitchen is usually my happy place, but this bread made it even better somehow. I can’t really explain it. The dough rose beautifully, was easy to work with, and baked up into the most gorgeous golden cinnamon-sugary morsel I’ve ever seen. It just delighted my soul.
Once the smell filled the house, everyone came running. And then they asked for seconds. And then I left the house for a couple of hours and when I returned… well… only the heel of the loaf was left. The entire loaf disappeared in a matter of about 6 hours. Note to self: next time make two loaves. At least.
Adapted from The Pioneer Woman
Ingredients
- 1c milk, warm
- 6T butter, melted
- 2 1/2t yeast
- 2 eggs
- 1/3c sugar
- 3 1/2c flour
- 1t salt
- 2T butter, softened
- 1/3c sugar
- 2T Cinnamon
- 1/3c raisins
- 1/2c milk
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Combine the warm milk, melted butter, and yeast in the bowl of a stand-mixer. Stir gently and allow to stand ten minutes.
- Add eggs and sugar to to milk/butter/yeast mixture and mix to combine.
- Gradually add the flour and salt. Knead with the dough hook attachment for 10 minutes.
- Remove the bowl from the base, cover with plastic wrap, and allow to rise in the oven with the light on or another warm location for two hours.
- Grease loaf pan.
- Flour your work surface. Turn dough out onto surface and roll into a rectangle, using your loaf pan as a guide for width. The rectangle should be about 18-24 inches long.
- Smear 2T softened butter over rectangle, then evenly sprinkle your cinnamon and sugar. Last, sprinkle on the raisins.
- Beginning from far end, roll the rectangle into a loaf, rolling toward you, and place seam-side down in prepared loaf pan.
- Place pan back in rising spot and allow to rise another hour.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Whisk together milk and egg. Spread lightly over top of risen loaf until evenly coated (this gives it that shiny, golden crust).
- Bake for 40 minutes.
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