Bread Recipes For Gifts At Christmas

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This easy Cinnamon Bread recipe is perfect for breakfast, snacks, and gifting to friends, neighbors and co-workers! This Christmas bread makes a beautiful gift wrapped into inexpensive giftable loaf pans.

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It’s a moist bread full of flavor often synonymous with Christmas because of the amazing cinnamon sugar scent and flavor! It’s a delicious breakfast or snack on its own or slathered in butter.

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However, it also makes an amazing afternoon treat, as a dessert with a cup of coffee or tea. One bite and you’ll see why!

When you bake this bread, your kitchen will smell like Christmas! It’s a great homemade food gift to give to friends and family throughout the holidays. That’s exactly why I’ve dubbed this

Each year I bake up giftable loaves for friends, family, teachers and neighbors. Even better, it’s quick and easy to make (just about 5 minutes hands on time) with ingredients you have in your pantry!

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There’s never a bad time to enjoy this bread! It can easily be served as a breakfast bread, a mid morning or afternoon snack or as an after dinner treat. It’s so perfectly festive and the smell of cinnamon when you bake this bread is to die for!

Use the Toothpick Test – Bake time varies with oven, altitude, loaf pan size and material. Use the toothpick test to determine when your loaves are baked through. When a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, it’s ready to be removed from the oven.

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Ceramic or paper miniature loaf pans are great for gifting! A single batch yields 6 miniature giftable loaves for teachers, neighbors, friends and co-workers!

Cinnamon bread is nut-free and vegetarian. Make it gluten free by substituting 1:1 flour. Make it dairy free by substituting milk for almond milk.

A Cinnamon Bread recipe made with staple ingredients in just a few minutes. This Christmas Bread is perfect for breakfast, snacks and gifting to friends, neighbors and co-workers!

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Calories: 117 kcal | Carbohydrates: 20 g | Protein: 2 g | Fat: 4 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Cholesterol: 8 mg | Sodium: 56 mg | Potassium: 78 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 12 g | Vitamin A: 25 IU | Calcium: 37 mg | Iron: 0.6 mgEvery year for Christmas I make Christmas Bread. It’s one of my favorite traditions, and I always make a ton of loaves to gift to our friends, neighbors, and co-workers. It’s a delicious sweet bread that is great for dessert or breakfast, and always gets rave reviews (in fact, several of Philip’s co-workers wouldn’t even tell their wives about it every year so they could eat the entire thing as soon as they got it. I got in trouble one year when I mentioned the bread at a work party and some of the wives had no idea what I was talking about…ha!)

The best part is that it’s super easy, and besides taking an hour to bake, it comes together really quickly. In years past I’ve cooked two at a time (since I only had two bread pans), but this year I picked up a few disposable ones and cooked 4 at a time so it went much faster and made my life a lot easier.

Also, my boys probably ate two entire loaves on their own, and would have eaten much more if I’d have let them. So it gets their stamp of approval as well. It would also be a perfect dish for Christmas morning tomorrow!

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I make this recipe every year for our friends and neighbors for Christmas! It's actually a coffee cake recipe, but I always make it in loaf pans so it's easy to wrap up and gift.

Every year for Christmas I make Christmas Bread. It’s one of my favorite traditions, and I always make a ton of loaves to gift to our friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

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It’s a delicious sweet bread that is great for dessert or breakfast, and always gets rave reviews (in fact, several of Philip’s co-workers wouldn’t even tell their wives about it every year so they could eat the entire thing as soon as they got it. I got in trouble one year when I mentioned the bread at a work party and some of the wives had no idea what I was talking about…ha!)

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Also, my boys probably ate two entire loaves on their own, and would have eaten much more if I’d have let them. So it gets their stamp of approval as well. It would also be a perfect dish for Christmas morning!Bread expert Elizabeth Yetter has been baking bread for more than 20 years, bringing her Pennsylvania Dutch Country experiences to life through recipes.

Handing out sweet bread loaves during the holidays is a tradition kept in many families, especially when it comes to Christmas gift-giving. Although these delicious mini loaves require a little bit of work, they are not difficult to make and can also be great for a novice cook looking for an easy loaf of quick bread. Filled with cranberries and a fragrant touch of cinnamon, this recipe doesn't require any difficult-to-find ingredients and after a good mix, the batter is ready to go into the oven for one hour. The hands-on work is short, and the wait is worth it, as this moist and perfectly sweet bread makes a great coffee break companion, and of course a fantastic holiday gift. Besides, the small size of the mini loaf guarantees that it's going to be eaten in its entirety and not left to dry on a counter.

If the holidays are approaching and fresh cranberries are aplenty in the produce section of the supermarket, give this bread a try. Most people only eat cranberries during the holidays, and only in the form of an overly sweet cranberry sauce that is served with classic dishes like roasted turkey and mashed potatoes. But cranberries are a powerhouse of flavor and nutrition on their own and don't need a load of sugar to taste great. Our recipe highlights their acidic notes and adds enough sugar to make them shine without overpowering your palate. An easy glaze makes a pretty addition to the loaf.

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The recipe does contain eggs and dairy, so if you're giving them away, do make a cute little tag that points out the ingredients so the recipient knows what's in it. For a dairy-free version, you could replace the butter with vegan margarine and the milk with a plant-based option like oat milk. There are many baking tricks for replacing eggs, such as using bananas, applesauce, flax or chia seeds instead, so you can always try and make your own allergy-friendly loaf. For our recipe, you need three small loaf tins. Plan ahead, as the loaves need to cool off completely before being wrapped for gifting. Cellophane bags and a little bow make a pretty package.

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When you enjoy baking bread as much as I do, it’s only a natural progression to want to share that joy with others by gifting the bread.

Homemade bread gifts don’t have to be elaborate (unless you want to go all out!). Gift wrapping a single loaf of bread in a pleasing way is a great place to start. A gift basket is such a fun project to put together as well.

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It’s essential to allow bread to cool completely before you try to gift wrap it. This prevents condensation from forming in the packaging.

If you need to drop off a warm loaf to someone, you could simply wrap twine or baker’s string around the loaf. You could place the loaf in an open paper bag