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Amish Friendship Bread Without Starter

I had Amish Friendship Bread a few years ago and I loved it! I’m pretty sure I kept all the starters you’re supposed to share with friends, because I loved it so much. I couldn’t bare parting ways with the starters because I loved this bread so much. Not really how it works, but hey, whatever. So here’s my Amish Friendship Bread Without Starter recipe.

I have looked and looked for a recipe that didn’t require a starter, because taking five days to make it just wasn’t cutting it.

Finally! Now there’s Amish Friendship Bread Without Starter

I’m sure of one thing! The Amish really like their sugar. Like really, really like it!
I guess that’s one thing we have in common… because I happen to also love sugar! This bread would make a perfect gift for friend’s birthdays, or neighbor holiday gifts. Combine it with a cute pan, and/or a pretty dish towel and it will be a gift to remember!
 If you’re looking for another great recipe, you’ve got to try my Vanilla Texas Sheetcake!

AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD WITHOUT STARTER

Ingredients
Batter:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups buttermilk
    • or 2 cups milk plus 2 tablespoons vinegar to make buttermilk
    • Let sit for 5 minutes, then mix well, before you use
  • 4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
Cinnamon Sugar
  • 2/3 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

  1. For the batter cream together butter, sugar and eggs.
  2. Add milk, flour, and baking soda
  3. Divide 1/2 of the batter into two greased loaf pans
  4. Mix in separate bowl the 2/3 c sugar and cinnamon
  5. Sprinkle 3/4 of the cinnamon sugar on top of the batter in each pan
  6. Add remaining batter to pans; sprinkle the remaining cinnamon sugar on top of each
  7. Swirl with a knife
  8. Bake at 350 for 45-50 min. or until toothpick comes out clean when tested
  9. Cool in pan for 20 minutes before removing from the pan
NOTE: I have no idea why but my bread took way longer then 45 minutes. Once I hit 50 minutes I turned my heat down to 300 and checked it every 5-10 minutes. I turned the heat down because I didn’t want my bread to burn. It still came out perfectly moist, and was so good.
 
It better be good with all that sugar in it
Enjoy!
Hilary

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  • Did I miss it? How many loaves does the recipe make? I wish I had seen this before last Friday, I had to make 12 loaves on Friday. Needless to say I was baking all day. I can't wait to try this recipe, I was just wondering how many loaves I would get in one recipe.
    Thank you

    • Hey Diane! I hope you found success when you made the Amish Friendship Bread. The vinegar is used to make your own Buttermilk if you don't have any on hand. You can make Buttermilk by combining milk with vinegar. However, if you have Buttermilk then there's no use for the vinegar. I hope that makes sense. Let me know how you liked the recipe!

    • I'm sure you could try it. However, batter usually does better at room temperature. So you may want to let the batter sit for a while, then mix it up again. Let me know how it works!!!

  • Made this tonight. While it smelled wonderful in the house I didn't like that the top didn't come out very smooth after doing the swirl thing. Next thing I will just mix it all in the batter so it will be another less crumbs.... Otherwise it's a keeper here

  • This brings back memories of all the food storage bags in my freezer filled with Amish bread starter. It would get harder and harder to "give it away" since everyone else in my circle's freezers looked the same. lol.

    This looks great! I have pinned! Thanks for sharing.

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2 months ago

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