Cinnamon Raisin Bread Recipe For Bread Machine
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This homemade cinnamon raisin bread is made from start to finish in a bread machine! All you need to do to create this delicious bread is to add the ingredients to a bread machine and press the start button. Your house will smell so amazing that you’ll be hardly able to wait for the bread baking cycle to be done. Then finally you’ll take the warm freshly baked cinnamon raisin bread out of your bread machine and taste the first incredible slice!
As my other bread machine recipes (see soft white sandwich bread recipe and oatmeal bread recipe), this one produces great slices that are not crumbly. If you read the numerous comments on those two other recipes, all these people testify to the fact that those recipes produce the best quality bread machine bread they ever eaten. Since those recipes works so well, I created this cinnamon raisin bread machine recipe using very similar ingredients, except adding raisins and cinnamon and adjusting the sugar to make this bread slightly more sweet.
If you are a fan of store-brought bread, you have to give this freshly baked goodie a try! If you look at the ingredient list of the store-bought bread, it is scary – there is just so much stuff you won’t recognize. When you make bread yourself, you’ll know exactly what goes into it, and it will taste so fresh without all those chemicals and preservatives!
All ingredients for this cinnamon raisin bread are common and easily found: flour, water, sugar, oil, salt, yeast, cinnamon and raisins. You can use bread flour or regular flour – I haven’t seen much difference in a resulting bread texture. This bread slices easily and doesn’t crumble much. I use the serrated knife to slice it for gorgeous even slices that you see on the picture.
You can eat this bread by itself (that’s what usually happens with the warm freshly baked bread), have it with dinner or make sandwiches out of it. And if you have some left over the next day, it makes amazing cinnamon raisin french toast!
Cinnamon Raisin Bread Recipe For Bread Machine
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 packet 2 1/4 tsp instant dry yeast
- 3/4 cup raisins
Instructions
- Water has to be at lukewarm temperature (barely warm, not hot). You can either get the water of this temperature from the tap, or warm the water in a microwave.
- Pour the water in the bread machine.
- Add oil to the bread machine.
- Add flour to the bread machine and sprinkle it with cinnamon.
- On top of the flour, put sugar in one corner of the bread machine, salt in the other corner and yeast in the 3 corner (so the yeast is not touching sugar and salt).
- Close the bread machine cover, set the machine on White bread and 1 1/2 pound loaf setting, and press Start.
- Most bread machines have a "nut and raisin" signal that beeps when the dough mixing cycle is close to the end, so you can add nuts, raisins or other extra ingredients. If your machine has this type of signal, add the raisins when it beeps the "nut and raisin" prompt. If your machine doesn't have this feature, you can add them right away.
- When the baking cycle is finished, take out the freshly baked cinnamon raisin bread and enjoy!
Oh cinnamon raisin bread is the best, especially for breakfast! Awesome you have such a good basic recipe for a bread machine. I don’t have one but could adapt I am sure. Thanks for all the advice in your last comment to me :-)
Yes, cinnamon raisin bread makes an amazing breakfast! With a cup of freshly made coffee – mmmmm!
I don’t have a bread machine that bakes horizontal, mine bakes vertically….. so looking into it is the heel of the loaf. Will this bake ok on my machine?
It shouldn’t make a difference Hon.
Nothing beats homemade bread. I love this cinnamon raisin bread, I bet your house smelled wonderful as it was baking. Looks delicious.
The smell of freshly baked goodies is a good enough reason to bake something today!
I will be sure to try this in my bread machine, which gets used far too seldom :)
I go through phases with my bread machine (like with all gadgets) – there are months that I use it almost every day, and there are months where it’s sitting at the back of the closet unused. Everyone needs an inspiration to start using a gadget that’s currently gathering dust, so hopefully this cinnamon raisin bread recipe will inspire you to use your bread machine!
I’d love to give this a try! I don’t own a bread maker but it sounds so good (and that idea of eating it as a French toast is great :)).
I have the cheapest bread machine that I got years ago for around $20. It comes in handy, not just for bread but for making any yeast-based dough (like pizza dough) on a Dough cycle. I can’t imagine kneading the yeast-based dough by hand – it seems like so much work, plus remembering all the timing. Bread machine takes all the work out of it – just put the ingredients in and press the button, and you get the gourmet freshly baked bread!
I do this all the time for the kids, cos nice and sweet and protein from the egg so all bases covered haha
Could I make this using the dough cycle, remove and bake in oven?
I made this and it tasted wonderful but the paddle left a huge, gaping hole.🤔
What would the rising, baking time and temperature be?
Thanks! (Senior neighbors have requested more and I want it to be pretty for them.)
Yes, check out my bread machine challah bread recipe, I make it on dough cycle then bake in oven. The only difference is that challah is braided, but this one you just put dough in a loaf pan (or shape into a loaf on a baking sheet) and let rise.
The bread turned out really great, Melanie.
Thanks Angie! I’m really happy that the bread turned out well for you, and thank you so much for commenting! Now we have the first reader testimonial that this bread recipe works – yay!
Thank you for posting! I was scrolling through to make sure this wasn’t a Pinterest fail before I try it! Lol. I love it when people try the recipe and then come back and let the rest of us know how it turned out! Will definitely be making. Thank you!
LOVE cinnamon bread. And you’ve reminded me I haven’t had it for quite some time. No excuse not to, though — your recipe looks so easy and delish. Good stuff — thanks.
Cinnamon is sooo good in baked goodies! Hope you enjoy the bread!
Wow! This looks absolutely fantastic! What a great idea, store-bough raisin bread is always such a let down, it’s always so dry. This looks wonderful!
Thanks Jess! I hope you’ll give it a try, it’s so much better than store-bought bread!
I love baking bread Melanie! This recipe looks amazing.
I haven’t got a bread maker though, so I’ll have to give this a try baking the normal way in my oven.
Pinned for later, thanks! :D
Thanks Neil! I’m sure it will work just as well when you make it by hand :)
Did you use bread machine yeast or regular instant yeast?
This sounds great but I don’t want to mess it up!
Regular instant dry yeast.
Can I use wholemeal flour? I know it reacts differently but am just learning lol…
You can try using 1 cup wholewheat and 2 cups regular flour.
Thank you :-) can’t wait to try this.
I am fairly new to using bread machines but I will give this a try today. For the bread machine without the beep for nuts and raisins, you said put it right away. does that mean after putting the yeast put the raisins on top? thanks
Yes, you can put nuts and raisins on top after adding the yeast.
I learned to put them last, around the edge of the pan if u don’t want to worry about missing the beep. I think it keeps them from mixing in too soon.
I made this but I have no freaking clue Melanie how this bread tastes. My hubby ate the whole darn thing. Now he’s hollering for another one. Good thing we got 2 bread machines huh? My son and I might actually get some this time…
Hahaha this made my day, Arleen! So glad your husband liked it so much! :)
How long to bake if using oven? Trying 350 for 30 mins like the last loaf I made. I hate the weird size/shape of loaf in maker…
Try 35 mins at 400F.
Can coconut oil be used in this recipe in lieu of vegetable oil?
I never tried it with coconut oil. If you try it, please let us know how it turned out!
I tried it with coconut oil and it turned out great!!
You didn’t specify if the flour is bread machine flour or can regular flour be used? I haven’t used a bread machine for a very long time, but I need to try this recipe. Sounds wonderful!
You can use either bread machine flour or regular flour, they’ll both work.
What if no white bread setting? If only 1 or 2 pound setting?
Just use the 2 lb setting.
Newby here…..question about the flour. All-purpose, self-rising, or bread flour? TIA
It works with all-purpose or bread flour.
Can you substitute dried cranberries for the raisins?
Absolutely!
Tried and tested!! This bread came out soft and yummy! I replaced the water with milk, sugar with brown sugar, oil with butter and 2 cups bread flour and 1 cup wheat flour. I used a Philips breadmaker. On white bread 750g setting
Curious, what difference does it make to use milk instead of water?
This is my go to recipe along with another one. It is very tasty! I asked hubby this morning if he wanted me to make Irish Soda Bread or Cinnamon Raisin Bread and he chose your recipe for the Cinnamon Raisin Bread!! I add more cinnamon and also add walnuts. Delicious!
What is the other one you use Kathy I am always on the hunt for more lol.
I made this and it was good and soft. The only things Ive changed was: milk instead of water, soaked 1 cup of raisins in the milk and added raisins and milk to the breadmachine 1st, I used 1Tbs of cinnomen, and butter instead of oil. Oh and added a tsp of vanilla.
This bread was fantastic! I used milk and butter in place of water and oil. Also added 2 tsp cinnamon. While I was buying my raisins at Wal-Mart, they had a bag with a mix of golden raisins, dried cranberries and dried cherries so that is what I used. I’m glad I ran across that bag!! Made a beautiful loaf of deliciousness! Thanks for the recipe!
Amazing bread recipe! Thank you.
Hi,
Great bread. I always use milk instead of water as most recipes call for powdered milk, which I never buy, and have found it doesn’t make much difference. Also, I use the dough setting and then dough goes into the loaf pan, grease it, let it rise and pop it into the oven. Get the fantastic smell, which always makes me hungry and there’s no hole from the paddle. This was fantastic toasted served with coffee for breakfast, which I rarely eat, but couldn’t resist as it looked and tasted so……yum
thanks so much for this recipe! bread is wonderful!!
I think that my bread machine is too small for your cinnamon raisin bread recipe. the recipes that came with my machine all call for 2 1/3 cups of flour. It’s a Panasonic that is old. How can I make this bread recipe work on my machine.
I think the recipe will fit as is, as 3 cups of flour is not that much more then 2 1/3. But if you’d like a smaller loaf, just proportionately decrease all quantities.
I was looking for a good cinnamon raisin bread recipe to use in my new bread maker my husband bought me. That’s his favorite bread. I decided to give your recipe a try, and boy was I pleasantly surprised! The recipe is super simple to follow. When it was finished cooking, I asked my husband if he wanted to try a piece. I cut him a slice and put some butter on it. He loved it so. much, he wanted it again for breakfast! I’m super excited about trying your bread pudding recipe for Instant Pot!
I try fruit and cinnamon bread inthe breadmaker. My and husband very good. I am going to make other one with cranberry and apricot.
This is the best cinnamon raisin bread ever!!! I’ve made it many times and it’s always wonderful!! I’m going to try dried blueberries in place of the raisins next time.
This bread was so easy to make and came out so good! Warm, soft, not too sweet and a whole bunch of goodness! I think we will add more raisins as 3/4 cup wasn’t enough!
This recipe was amazing!!!
I saw this on a Sunday morning, and on a whim, decided to give it go. I had all the ingredients on hand. I am so glad I did. This turned out fantastic, and even better than I could have even imagined. Thank you so much! I will definitely be making this again!!
This cinnamon raisin bread smells incredible while baking.
I’m happy with how this turned out, the whole family loved it!