Amish Friendship Bread Recipe – The most delicious bread I’ve ever eaten. The recipe starts with making a sweet sourdough starter. You can get 10 loaves with one batch! Great for gift giving! If you don’t need 10 loaves of bread, you can freeze the starter in plastic bags and make bread later. Yeast, water, flour sugar, milk, eggs, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, vanilla pudding, baking powder and baking soda. We LOVE this quick and easy sweet bread!
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A few months ago, my Mom gave me a ziplock bag of Amish Friendship Bread Starter. Believe it or not, this was the first time I had heard of Amish Friendship Bread. I took the bag home and squished and fed it. When it was baking day, I whipped up a batch and it was amazing!
I know most of you are all like “I don’t want to fool with a sourdough starter”. I totally understand. It can be a hassle. The good thing about this starter recipe is that it freezes well. You can also opt to just make all the bread instead of keeping the starter alive. I like to give homemade gifts to friends and neighbors. This Amish Friendship Bread makes a great holiday gift. You will get 10 loaves of bread with one batch of starter (if you don’t save any to keep feeding). I think it is totally worth the 10 days of squishing and feeding to get 10 presents knocked out. Everyone I have given this bread to has loved it!
How to Make Amish Friendship Starter
This bread is very easy to make with only a few simple ingredients. The only problem is that this is a 10-day process. You need to plan ahead when making this recipe. Don’t worry, this isn’t a 10 days hands-on process. It is mostly hands-off.
To make the starter recipe, in a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water for 10 minutes. Stir well. In a large bowl, combine all-purpose flour and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Stir in the milk and yeast mixture. Pour the starter into a ziploc bag. Date the ziploc bag so you know what day is “Day 1”. Store the bag on the kitchen countertop at room temperature.
- Store the starter at room temperature. Remove any excess air in the bag daily.
- Feed the starter directly in the bag on Day 6. Add flour, sugar, and milk to the bag and squish until mixed together.
- On the 10th Day, pour the starter into a large glass bowl. Feed with flour, sugar, and milk, and separate out 1-cup portions into four Ziploc bags and make the bread with the remaining cup of starter.
How to Make Amish Friendship Quick Bread
To make the bread, in a small bowl combine sugar and cinnamon. Spray 2 loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray. Dust the pans with half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Set aside. In a large glass bowl, add 1 cup of starter, egg, oil, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, salt, all-purpose flour, and instant pudding mix. Mix well. Pour the batter into greased loaf pans. Top with remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture. Bake for 1 hour, or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
Helpful Tips & Frequently Asked Questions
- For best results use glass bowls and non-metal spoons. A wooden spoon or rubber spatula works best.
- Write the directions for the starter on the bag of starter so you don’t have to find the directions every day.
- You will end up with about 5 or 6 cups of sourdough starter.
- You can give away extra starter bags to friends along with a copy of the recipe and instructions. If you can’t find anyone to take the starter, freeze the bags for later.
- When ready to bake the bread, remove the starter from the freezer and treat that as Day 1 and start the 10-day process.
- If you don’t want to keep the sourdough starter going, you can use that cup to bake loaves of friendship bread!
- I use instant vanilla pudding mix. Feel free to try different flavors of pudding mix. Chocolate pudding, banana pudding, or pistachio pudding are delicious!
- Can bake the batter in muffin pans or a 9×13-inch pan for an Amish Friendship Cake.
- You will get 24 muffins with one batch of batter.
- Store baked bread in an airtight container.
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This coffee cake is absolutely DELICIOUS! I like to refer to this recipe as an edible chain letter since you are forwarding the starter on to more people. Now, don’t worry if you don’t want to keep the starter going. Just freeze it for later or toss it. No biggie! You can always make a new starter.
The bread is super soft and moist and packed full of cinnamon sugar flavor. We love this one-bowl, no-rise, quick bread recipe. Our favorite way to eat this bread is slightly warm with honey butter.
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Amish Friendship Bread
Equipment:
Ingredients:
Starter
- 1 (.25-oz) pkg. active dry yeast
- ¼ cup warm water
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup warm milk
Feeding
- 2 cups all-purpose flour divided
- 2 cups sugar divided
- 2 cups milk divided
Bread
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 (5.1-oz) box instant vanilla pudding (any flavor will work)
Topping
- ½ cup sugar
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions:
To make starter:
- In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for 10 minutes. Stir well. In a large glass bowl, combine flour and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Stir in the milk and yeast mixture. Pour starter into a ziplock bag. Date ziplock bag so you know what day is “Day 1”.
- Day 1: Do nothing. This is the date you made/received the bag. Squish the starter in the bag.
- Day 2: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 3: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 4: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 5: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 6: Add to the bag 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Squish the bag
- Day 7: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 8: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 9: Squish the bag – remove any extra air from fermenting
- Day 10: Baking Day!
Making the bread:
- Pour the entire contents of the ziploc bag into a large glass bowl and add: 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk. Mix well.
- Reserve one cup of the starter to make bread. Divide the remaining 4 cups of the starter mixture between 4 ziploc bags. Make sure to date the bags. Keep one bag for yourself and give 3 bags away with the instructions.
- Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
- In a small bowl combine ½ cup sugar and 1½ tsp cinnamon. Spray two 9-inch bread pans with nonstick cooking spray. Dust the pans with half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Set aside.
- In a large glass bowl (the one you made the starter in), add one cup of reserved starter and ingredients for bread. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pans. Top with remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for 1 hour.
Notes:
Steph
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Also if you add apples the kind that a great for baking this bread is amazing
That sounds amazing! I will try that on my next batch!
My starter overflowed the bag one nite! Any idea how much starter should be in the bag on end day so I can compensate the add in before dividing? Doesn't seem like I should have to waste it all because some slipped out of the bag!