Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!! I made cinnamon bread! I'll admit I wanted to do a little more Irish of a recipe, but I didn't find anything that really excited me. Plus I already had all the ingredients on hand for this.
I melted the butter in the milk.
I added the yeast after it had cooled, but things didn't look any different, so there's no picture. I mixed the sugar and eggs in my stand mixer.
Added the butter/milk/yeast mixture.
Here's the dough after I added the flour and salt:
After switching to the dough hook and letting it beat around for about 10 minutes, it looked a lot better.
Believe it or not, I don't have any glass or metal mixing bowls, so I just used these plasticy ones.
After letting the dough rise for two hours, it didn't look very different, but I pressed on and rolled it out onto the counter.
I sprinkled on the cinnamon sugar, and it wasn't until I started to roll it all up that I realized I forgot to spread butter on the dough before adding the cinnamon sugar. I briefly thought about trying to scoop it all off, adding butter, then trying again. But then I thought it couldn't make that much of a difference, and continued onward.
I let the dough rise for two hours again, and I swear it didn't rise at all. Husband says it did, but to me it looked exactly the same. But again, I persevered for the sake of this blog. You're welcome. ;) Coming out of the oven, the bread looked like this:
Still unsure of whether or not this had worked, I popped it out of the pan, and cut off a piece. Success! I was really surprised. Due to what looked like a lack of rising, I was pretty convinced my yeast had gone bad and thrown off the recipe. So I'm happy to say that this recipe is not a fail, and I will probably make it again. The only downside is it is kind of an all day process. I started the recipe around 1, and the bread didn't go in the oven until 6. 3 stars for this one.
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