Easy Amish Friendship Bread Recipe
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Amish Friendship Bread is one of those foods from my childhood that I love!! My mom and her friends used to pass around those starter bags… but as a mom who works from home, starter bags never happen for me! With no starter bag required, this is so easy to make and makes for the perfect coffee bread!-
First posted in 2016 and updated in 2023
I was excited when my mom sent me this Amish Friendship bread recipe. I love that it is an Amish friendship bread without starter, plus it’s easy! Just throw it together and let it bake. It’s like a coffee cake and is perfect for enjoying breakfast! So crumbly and moist, the whole family will love it!
Amish Friendship Bread Recipe Ingredients
Amish Friendship Bread Batter Ingredients:
- Butter– Either salted butter or unsalted butter will work for this. You will want the butter to be softened so I leave mine out of the fridge the night before.
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Flour
- Buttermilk– I make mine most of the time, take two cups of milk, add two Tablespoons of white vinegar, and allow it to set for a bit.
- Baking Soda
Amish Friendship Bread Topping Ingredients:
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How To Make Amish Friendship Bread:
Start by making your buttermilk if needed. If you don’t have buttermilk in a bowl or glass, add two cups of milk, add 2 Tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice, and allow it to set.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease two loaf pans. I always use Pyrex glass pans for my bread baking!! Over the years, I keep trying metal pans, but I don’t get the same results as cooking with glass!
In a mixer, cream together butter, sugar, and eggs.
Next, add the milk, flour, and baking soda into the mixer until well mixed.
Pour 1/4 of the mixed batter into each of your greased loaf pans.
In a separate bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon.
Take the cinnamon-sugar mixture and sprinkle about 3/4 between the two pans on top of the bread batter.
Pour the remaining batter evenly into the bread pans.
Sprinkle both pans with the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture.
Take a knife and swirl the knife thru the batter in each pan.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until the toothpick tester comes out clean.
Cool in pan for 20 minutes before removing from pan.
Cool on baking racks before storing.
Serve and Enjoy!
How to store Amish Friendship bread
Store in a Ziploc bag or an airtight container on the counter for up to 5 days; mine rarely last that long. You can freeze the loaf of bread for up to 90 days in an air-tight container or a Ziploc bag.
Storing leftovers properly requires the right tools! My preferred storage method is if the leftovers can be sealed in a food saver. If not, then an air-tight container or Ziploc bag for the fridge is the way I go. The airtight container or a freezer Ziploc bag are the next best bet for freezing the leftovers. I also use a food scale to measure portions into serving sizes.
Loaf Bread Recipes:
Baking bread is so easy to make, and it is a tasty gift to give as well. Making loaf bread is a great way to get kids started in the kitchen.
- Amish Friendship Bread– Just like the old school Amish bread that had the starter bag but no need to feed a dough.
- Best Banana Bread– Easy to make using ripe banana, the yogurt makes for amazing bread consistency.
- Zucchini Bread– Use shredded zucchini to make this tasty loaf bread, a great way to use summer vegetables.
- Chocolate Chip Banana Bread– A tasty twist on banana bread and a kid’s favorite.
- Homemade Pumpkin Bread-Perfect fall bread to make using canned pumpkin.
Amish Friendship Bread
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Ingredients
- 1 Cup Butter
- 2 Cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 2 Cup Buttermilk
- 4 Cup Flour
- 2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
Instructions
- If you don't have buttermilk in a bowl or glass put two cups of milk and add either 2 Tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice and allow it to set.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease two loaf pans
- In a mixer, cream together butter, sugar, and eggs.
- Next add the milk, flour, and baking soda into the mixer until well mixed.
- Pour 1/4 of the mixed batter into each of your greased loaf pans.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the sugar and cinnamon.
- Take the cinnamon-sugar mixture and sprinkle about 3/4 of it between the two pans on top of the bread batter.
- Pour the remaining batter evenly into the bread pans.
- Sprinkle both pans with the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture.
- Take a knife and swirl the knife thru the batter in each pan.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until the toothpick tester comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for 20 minutes before removing from pan.
Bread that doesn’t need yeast or special flour?! My kind of bread! 😀
Wonder if almond milk couldbe substituted. I am on a special diet due to chroniccyummy probs. Milk is a nono for nless its rice or almond mlk. I have about 8 oz of almond milk.
I have never baked with almond milk. Did you try it? Would love to know how it turned out.
Not for this recipe, but I did use almond milk for the recipe for the really simple, one bowl coconut custard pie. I also toasted the coconut a little too. I think it adds a delicious extra flavor to any recipe. I want to make this one too, not sure exactly what I’m going to do. I do t know if making buttermilk alternative works with almond milk.
Let me know if works. Think it would a good flavor
Omgggggg this was awsome!!!!!20 stars
This bread is so easy to make , but should taste delicious. It would be perfect for breakfast.
I love how easy and delicious this sounds! 🙂
oh so yummy when I saw the post I did think of a recipe that is also a friendship bread. I love the recipe you shared full of taste and so much easier to fix
Jenny, Looks pretty easy and I love there is no starter required! Pinned to share!
This looks so simple and delicious, I can’t wait to try it! Pinned. 🙂
Hi Jenny, The bread and the tea sound like a winning combination!
I love friendship bread!!!
Jennifer
I love a good quick bread, and this one looks amazing!
This looks so good! I’ve been on the look out for more loaf/bread recipes, and this one looks like the kids would love it {and me!}.
Funny thing – at Starbucks. I ALWAYS have a bag of Amish Friendship bread mix on my countertop – this is great to have so that if I’ve ever in a snag and need to make some, no 10+ days of nonsense for me!
Jenny, I love quick breads like this. It looks delicious. I’ll have to make some to go with my morning coffee. I love to drink mine outside on my patio, especially this time of year!
Can this be frozen, for later use?
This sounds yummy! I had made the kind that you pass around like 6million times and it sits on your shelf for a week, scaring your husband….So this is a welcome change! Can’t wait to try it soon!
Hi Jenny, The Amish bread and the Chai Latte sound delicious! I would love to enjoy some on my deck but it’s still too hot here! Maybe in another month! Thanks for sharing the recipe! Blessings, Janet
No starter and no yeast? I’m all over this one!
Really excited to try this amazing looking bread!
Thanks
Michelle
This brings back memories of when we lived in Maryland and would make this bread. I forgot about the recipe, thanks for the reminder!
That sounds so quick and easy, that it’d be shameful if I didn’t try it! Looks wonderful.
Mmmmm…..I love Amish bread. We just moved to a town full of Mennonites and there’s a Mennonite run bakery here where I can buy this kind bread. I’m a little bit addicted already. Love that you provided a recipe so I can give it a try on my own.
Ooooh, this is right up my alley! Pinned! Thanks for linking up at Best of the Weekend!
Your recipe for Amish Friendship Bread sounds delicious and looks easy to make. I’m going to make it this weekend. Pinned and tweeted.
Yummy it looks so delicious.and i love Amish Bread.thanks for sharing
what size loaf pans please…
It’s in my oven right now! Will eat it with my morning coffee?. I love the barter, so fluffy & smooth!
I know it doesn’t need it but was is meant by ‘ no starter required’ ?
Is it what we in UK would call ‘proving’ – leaving the mixture in a warm place to rest/rise before cooking?
Back in the day when my mom first started making this bread there was a bag of ingredients you shared with friends. You would have a list of what to add to it and then how much to separate out to give to friends, it had to set for so many days on the counter too. So much easier to just be able to whip up a batch.
Do you have that recipe for the other one the starter had this a long time ago lost it
Yes I do that to. It takes 10 days then you separate it and share it, and start over.
I wish I could find the starter recipe. That’s how I was introduced to this versatile bread and I would love to share the old way.
Me to! This one is pretty close for whipping up but I loved the original one
Which kind of flour? Self rising or all purpose
All purpose flour is what I use. I can not seem to make breads that need to rise.
How did you come up with the sugar and carb grams I am a diabetic and so is my husband those numbers sound outrageous when looking up another reciepe its only has 32.7 g of carbs and sugars 18.9 g
How many loafs does this recipe make?
Makes two of my loaf pans. It kinda varies on the type of loaf pan
I don’t have glass bread pans and would like to know if it would turn out in a glass pie pyrex dish like the Hawaiian bread they sell, cannot afford to buy glass loaf pans this time of year, how about bundt pans and they are also in metal..why do they not turn out in metal pans?
I do not cook as well in metal pans it turns out, so it’s a personal preference. I could see this working a bundt pan, if you try it let me know!
Did you use salted or unsalted butter?
I tend to always have salted butter on hand and it turns out great. I am sure you could go either way with it.
I would love to have the recipe you divide if someone can email me!!
Takes much longer to bake than 45-50 minutes. Had to bake mine 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Could a different flour be used to make it gluten free?
You could!!! I am not sure if its the same amount you would use.
Can you use wheat flour
i remember this when my mom and grandmother would share it with from our small independent chapel. we have a family history from the amish and mennonite church. when grandmother would make this and we would have a few slices for breakfast.. mostly she made it for our congregation. and you may use my internet address for your people who also like to share recipes, or receipts as the old spelling goes..lol
thanks for including me.. love have new easy quick bread recipes was in a severe head-on collision in 2009 and my baking is limited to less time than before
can other flavors be added? When I used to make the long recipe I would add van pudding (dry) sometimes, for example. can I do this with your recipe?
This bread took way longer than 50 minutes at 350 degrees. When I took it out at that time. It was almost liquid mush inside. I hate when recipes are wrong. I used two normal sized metal loaf pans. Stuck back in for an additional 45 minutes with foil on top so it wouldn’t burn. I question whether the temp is correct for this recipe or if I needed extra large loaf pans.
Tastes just like the original Amish friendship bread without the hassle! I also used metal pans and they came out perfect!!
Can this be made with only 1 cup of buttermilk and cut all the other ingredients in half?
I made this today. It’s still warm when we tried a slice. DELICIOUS!!!! So easy to make. I sprinkled some cinnamon sugar mix in the bottom of pan then I put half the batter in the loaf pan, added cinnamon sugar the top with remaining batter. This is definitely a recipe to keep. Thanks for sharing.