Cinnamon Raisin Bread Machine Recipe - Culinary Shades (2024)

Cinnamon raisin bread is perfect for breakfast toast and it tastes delicious with some butter. It is flavorful and when you bake this bread at home it will spread a delicious sweet aroma in your entire house.

It is easy to make vegan cinnamon raisin bread at home in the bread machine. You just need to add the dry and the liquid ingredients in the bread machine pan and select the cycle.

This is an eggless recipe to make cinnamon bread just like bread machine cinnamon rolls. It is a great bread flavor to make in the fall when you crave all warm spices.

Ingredients

Bread machine cinnamon-raisin bread is made with only few basic pantry ingredients, bread flour, salt, water, ground cinnamon powder, raisins, sugar, oil, and yeast. Bread flour has more protein compared to all-purpose flour. However, you can substitute it with all-purpose flour to make this recipe.

The water must be lukewarm. You can use the microwave to warm the water for about 20-30 seconds. Instant yeast or bread machine yeast can be used for the dough to rise.

Instructions

The process to make vegan cinnamon raisin bread in bread machine will only need just a few minutes of your time. All the jobs of mixing, kneading, proofing the dough and baking will be done by the bread machine.

Depending on the bread machine, you may have to add the wet ingredients first, followed by the dry ones, or vice versa. Select the 1.5 lb. white bread cycle and crust setting of your choice, preferably light or medium crust.

Step 1: Add all the ingredients to the bread machine pan.

Step 2: Select and start the basic white bread cycle.

Allow the bread machine to do all the work. Optionally, after the last kneading cycle, you can remove the paddle to have only a small tiny hole in the bread instead of a big one.

Once the cycle is complete, invert and shake the pan to remove the bread. Place it on a cooling rack to allow it to cool down completely. If you keep the bread too long in the pan, it will become soggy from the bottom and sides.

Once the bread has cooled down, you can slice it with a serrated bread knife or an electric knife.

Step 3: Add the raisins.

Step 4: Let the cycle complete, bread will be ready.

Optionally, if you like to only knead the dough in the bread machine and bake it in the oven, then use the dough cycle to knead the dough and get it through the first rise. Add the raisins when the machine beeps for add-ins. For more details, check out this post on how to make dough in bread machine.

Shape the dough into a log of about 8 inches long and place it in a 9 inch by 5 inch loaf pan. Cover it with a food wrap or kitchen towel and allow it to rise for another 45 minutes. Bake for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 350°F.

Substitutions

The best thing about this cinnamon raisin bread recipe is that it is made with only few basic ingredients. But you can still substitute a few ingredients based on what is available.

• All-purpose flour - instead of bread flour, you can use all-purpose flour and the bread will turn out equally good. I use King Arthur bread machine flour or all-purpose flour and don't find much difference in the results.
• Yeast - you can use bread machine yeast or instant yeast.
• Sugar - brown sugar can be used instead of organic cane sugar.

Serving suggestions

You can enjoy cinnamon raisin bread with some bread machine apple butter or bread machine mixed fruit jam.

If you enjoy making sweet bread at home, you can also try bread machine tutti frutti bread which is made with yeast. However, other quick breads like bread machine banana bread and bread machine pumpkin bread are made without yeast.

Equipment

To make this cinnamon raisin bread at home, I have used the Hamilton Beach 2 lb. bread machine. Any other bread machine will work well as all of them have the basic bread cycle. The only thing that may differ is the order of placing the wet and the dry ingredients in the bread pan and the process of adding the raisins as add-ins.

I made this bread using a 1.5 lb. setting and medium crust. A light crust setting will work well too.

If you enjoy baking bread at home then check out these vegan bread machine recipes and bread maker recipes.

Storage

Homemade cinnamon raisin bread can be stored at room temperature in an air-tight container or in a bread box for 3-4 days. To prevent the bread from drying up, it is best to cut the slices when you want to eat them and not pre-cut them while storing.

Cinnamon bread can also be frozen for about 3 months in the freezer in ziplock bags or freezer safe containers. Cut the bread into slices of desired thickness with a serrated knife or an electric knife.

When you are ready to eat, take as many slices from the freezer as you need and then toast them in a toaster. It is not recommended to store the bread in the fridge as it tends to lose moisture and dry up.

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