Tonight I decided it was finally time to try out the Snicker doodle Bread that I found on www.lilluna.com/snickerdoodle-bread. It looked easy enough and just as I began to measure out the ingredients my oldest son called from Tennessee.
"Mom, I have this bag of muffin mix you left here, it says add water, how do I do this?" I went over how he needed to have Granddad help him, but it was really easy and just do exactly as the box said. As I am attempting to mix and I have cinnamon all over my hands, the phone rings again.
"Mom, do I just put the mix in the muffin pan?" So I explain that I left cup cake liners next to the mix, and we got all of that sorted out. I lay my phone down only to have it immediately ring.
"Mom, how no wait when do I add the water to the mix?" Now I am confused, umm you add the water to the mix and then you stir out the lumps, but this wasn't very easy for him to comprehend, and he hands the phone to my Dad. And my Dad proceeds to ask the same question. Are you kidding me??? Okay, you do not put the mix in the muffin pan and then add the water, you must add water to mix, stir it and then spoon into cup cake liners. My Dad responds that the box leaves you hanging that at no point anywhere does it say when exactly you add the water. REALLY??? I am thinking to myself isn't this self explanatory? All this time I am mixing my own ingredients and shaking my head and my husband is laughing and saying my son's name over and over.
Somehow through all the phone calls, no less than ten I am sure, I made our bread and got it into the oven and the kids into the bathtub. I am starting to break down, starting to stress and I grabbed my Mommy's Time Out oil blend and slathered it all over my neck and arms so I could get a grasp on the tasks at hand and my son's many phone calls.
While bathing the kids I received another five calls about how to tell when they are done, how to get them out of the oven, the consistency, etc. It was rather entertaining, and my own bread turned out great.
The husband, kids and I sat down to try this new bread while it was still fresh from the oven hot, and it was AMAZING. I thought it would be too sweet, but it wasn't it was just right. It kind of smells like cinnamon toast, or cinnamon rolls while it is cooking. One of the bonuses to making this recipe was the fact that just after Christmas I got the cinnamon chips on sale for $1.50 at Krogers. I had been saving them trying to figure out what to use them in and here this was.
Snicker doodle bread
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup butter softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup of sour cream
For the Topping
1TB. Sugar
3 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions:
1.) Cream butter, sugar, salt and cinnamon until fluffy. Add eggs and mix well.
2.) Add vanilla and sour cream and mix well
3.) Mix flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Add to wet ingredients and mix until all combined.
4.) Add cinnamon chips and stir into batter. Set aside
5.) Spoon batter into 4 mini loaf pans until about 2/3 full
6.) Mix 3T. Sugar and 3t cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkle over the batter in each loaf pan.
7.) Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes. Let cool before removing from pan.
The mix is very thick and I had my doubts that it would rise correctly, but it did. This is a great bread. I will be making it again.
Jonah 2:7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple.
3/4 sour cream
1 package Hershey's Cinnamon Chips.
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