Amish Friendship Bread is a fun way to share something yummy with friends. Learn how to make a starter, how to pass along to friends and print a recipe to share with the starter.
Sweet breads are always a favorite around our house. We love banana bread, pumpkin bread and Amish Friendship Bread. I remember my mom receiving a bag with the bread start. As a kid I loved mixing the start each day in the bag. As the days pass, adding a couple of ingredients grows the start so that it is enough to share with friends. It is like sharing on online, only better because it is something real and it tastes delicious!
This bread can be switched up to try in different flavors. Chocolate, vanilla, even butterscotch. Experiment with any flavors of instant pudding you can find. My favorite is vanilla, but chocolate is so good too. The touch of cinnamon and sugar tops of the amish friendship bread perfectly. And I’ve shared a bunch of variations below the recipe to experiment with!
Lemon Poppy Seed Amish Friendship Bread Recipe
The start is great to share with friends, or do the work for them and wrap up a loaf with some baker’s twine to make their day. If sharing the Amish Friendship Bread start be sure to print off the directions below to go along with the starter.
Place the starter in a gallon sized ziplock bag and write the following on it (or just print out the printable below):
Other starter tips: Do not use a metal spoon or bowl for mixing. Do not refrigerate. If air gets into the bag, let it out. It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble and ferment.
The Ultimate Guide To Amish Friendship Bread & Starter
Grab the kids and have them help as you make your Amish Friendship Bread. Have them mush to bag, or help add ingredients. Once they try it, they will be excited to help make it!
Now go on and share this amish friendship bread with all your friends. They deserve it. Plus, check out the printable recipe below! It is easy to print it off and send it to your friends!
There are so many ways to make this bread your own and to your own preferences. Changing up the flavor of pudding, or adding mix ins can change up this recipe for a different taste.
Eat Cake For Dinner: Amish Friendship Cinnamon Bread Alternative {without A Starter}
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If you were to look up Amish Friendship Bread on Wikipedia, you’d find this: “Amish Friendship Bread is a type of bread or cake made from a sourdough starter that is often shared in a manner similar to a chain letter. The starter is a substitute for baking yeast and can be used to make many kinds of yeast-based breads, shared with friends, or frozen for future use.”
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe, Starter Recipe & Gifting Printable
If you were to ask a real live person who has made Amish Friendship Bread, you might hear something like this: “It’s a gloopy substance in a bag that you mash for ten days before baking the most heavenly bread in the world.”
— but with no threats or negative repercussions if you choose not to make it. At the end of the ten days, you divide it into four portions, bake with one, and give the other three away. This usually hums along nicely for the first cycle or two, but eventually people will start running in the other direction if you keep showing up on their doorstep with a fresh batch of starter (kidding/not kidding). The good news is you can freeze your starter, but more on that later. Let’s get your starter going!
Amish Friendship Bread starter is essentially a sweet sourdough starter with a lactobacillus culture. Because there’s so much sugar in most Amish Friendship Bread recipes, the result is sweet, slightly tangy twist. Like most sourdough starters, Amish Friendship Bread can literally be passed around indefinitely; in fact, the longer it has been around, the better.
Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe
If you ask around, chances are you’ll find somebody you know with an Amish Friendship Bread starter to share (exercise good judgment if accepting a starter from someone you do not know). Shared starters are always my favorite because the flavor is unique to the people who’ve added a bit of their kitchen to yours. I was gifted one from 1987 and it’s one of my favorites.
As long as you continue to feed your starter, it can stay at room temperature indefinitely. One of the wonderful things about the starter is that you can bake almost anything with it.
I always recommend that people first go through the 10-Day cycle with their starter and bake the original recipe first. From there, you can go almost anywhere, but it’s important to learn how the starter behaves and what the recipe should taste like. Every kitchen and every starter is different, and you can always look at the Learn area of the website for help.
Amish Friendship Bread Starter
NOTE: Do not refrigerate starter. It is normal for the batter to rise and ferment. If air gets in the bag, let it out.
REMEMBER: If you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking in 10 days. The bread is very good and makes a great gift.
Should this recipe not be passed onto a friend on the first day, make sure to tell them which day it is when you present it to them.
Amish Friendship Bread Bread Pudding
We love all the Amish Friendship Bread recipes in our Recipe Box, but the original Amish Friendship Bread recipe is the simplest and the best.
This recipe is very versatile! Use 1 or 2 boxes of pudding (pudding boosts flavor and moisture, but you can also leave it out or make your own). Add 1 cup of dried fruit, nuts or baking chips of your choice.
Looking to make your Amish Friendship Bread healthier? Swap out ½ cup oil plus ½ cup applesauce or 1 egg plus ¼ cup mashed banana. Reduce sugar to ⅔ cup or replace with ⅔ cup honey.
Simple Amish Friendship Bread (sans Pudding Mix)
Serving: 1 slice Calories: 204 kcal Carbohydrates: 33 g Protein: 4 g Fat: 6 g Saturated Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 27 mg Sodium: 112 mg Potassium: 181 mg Fiber: 1 g Sugar: 11 g Vitamin A: 50 IU Vitamin C: 0.4 mg Calcium: 38 mg Iron: 1.3 mg
In our Recipe Box you’ll find recipes and variations of those recipes and variations of those variations. You’ll be amazed by what you can do with one cup of Amish Friendship Bread starter.
Have you seen my free printable library? It has lots of different instruction sheets, labels, and gift tags for your starter and the bread. And (in case you missed it), it’s free! Check out a growing selection of different instruction styles (including large print!) by clicking here.
Big, Bold, Beautiful Food: Amish Friendship Bread
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Most recipes will yield two loaves, one for you and one to share. Keep the spirit of Amish Friendship Bread alive by sharing what you have with others — put a smile on someone’s face today by baking them a loaf of Amish Friendship Bread. Thanks for being in the Kitchen with me!
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