The Happier Homemaker Amish Friendship Bread
What is Amish friendship bread? If you aren't familiar, Amish Friendship Bread is a sweet bread that you make off a sourdough starter. The starter is "fed" and kept for ten days, then divided into four portions, three of which you can gift to friends and one you use to bake the most heavenly cinnamon sugared bread! 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. Learn how to make Amish Friendship Bread Starter & the basic Amish Friendship Sweet Cinnamon Bread.
Plus, my BEST SECRET no one tells you! Discover the art of making traditional Amish friendship bread with our easy-to-follow recipe and tips on maintaining the starter, mixing the dough, and baking to perfection. This Amish Friendship Bread recipe 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.
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe, Starter Recipe & Gifting Printable
Amish friendship bread begins with a shared sourdough culture, and we end up with two loaves of the most amazing, moist cinnamon quick bread. Amish Friendship Bread Amish Friendship Bread is a well-known recipe in the farmhouse cooking world. It's great to receive your starter from a friend until 10 days later you realize you have to pawn off starter to three other friends and the cycle repeats itself.
I fix this problem by tripling my recipe and using up all the starter in one batch. This Amish Friendship Bread recipe is a classic, cinnamon-spiced loaf made using a simple homemade starter. It's incredibly moist, easy to make, and designed to be shared-hence the name! Whether you're baking for your family, gifting to friends, or just craving something cozy and nostalgic, this recipe delivers.
Amish Friendship Bread
The magic of this bread lies in its sourdough-like starter that gets passed from friend to friend, creating a chain of baking that can last for decades. Each loaf emerges from the oven with a tender crumb, crispy cinnamon -sugar crust, and that distinct tangy flavor that only comes from a properly fermented starter. It's part science experiment, part comfort food, and completely irresistible.
Amish individuals have a number of fun and unique traditions, one of these traditions is the baking and sharing of Amish Friendship Bread.
