This recipe is great. I was a little nervous since I don't have a bread machine, but I've learned you can make it without. Here's what I did. 1. Stir yeast in with warm milk and water. 2. I large bowl mix dry ingredients 3. Stir in yeast mixture add egg and butter. 4. Knead, adding a little flour at a time until the dough is smooth and not sticky. (I also kneaded in raisins at this point) 5. Let rise in warm place (covered with damp cloth) 6. When doubled, punch down, and let it rise again. When doubled again, I followed the rest of the recipe instructions. I'm not an experienced bread maker, but it turn out fabulously. I will make it again!

Holy cow! This is a 5 star recipe. It's fantastic. Only changes I made was cutting the recipe in half and using 2-1/2 cups flour. (It made a perfect 1.5 lb. loaf for me.) I was afraid to add 5 cups of flour to my machine and have it rise out of the top because I used my machine for everything. I did not melt the butter either, but used soft butter instead. The other change was my own premix cinnamon sugar recipe I keep in the kitchen at all times. This is a keeper. It makes perfect Cinnamon Swirl Bread as I remember it as a kid. Thanks for the recipe, Peggy.

I just sliced one of the loaves and oh my gosh, it is delish! After rolling it up, I put it in the pan and let it rise in the refrigerator overnight. I actually used brown sugar instead of white and increased the amount of cinnamon. Very good bread. I will definitely make this one again! Ok..I made this again 4 days after I made it for the first time. It has been out of the oven 30 minutes and the loaf is half gone. My husband loves it!

This is the first cinnamon bread I've found that's turned out, and I've tried a few. I used all purpose flour instead of bread flour, since that was all I had. Still turned out great!

I would have rated this 5 stars except as written, the dough is much too dry. Luckily I checked on it while it was on the dough cylce in my bread machine because it was obvious I had to toss in another tablespoon of water. Even with that, the finished product was not moist enough. Next time I will definitely increase the amount of liquid by 2 or 3 tablespoons. I also increased the amount of sugar/cinnamon (almost doubled) for the filling. While it was still a little warm I poured the glaze over, sliced it, and served. It was good right away but didn't keep well because it dried out too much.

This bread was great! I halved the recipe to make one loaf, and mixed the dough with my dough hook as always, then let it rise for an hour. My only suggestion is adding about twice the filling to the center, both for extra taste and to give it a more distinctly visible swirl. I used half the loaf for the Oven-Baked Caramel French Toast recipe on this site and highly recommend it, but it was just as delicious sliced and plain!

This really wasn't difficult at all. I've been getting better about bread making, which only makes my self-esteem soar. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer for the whole thing. I proofed the yeast in the mixing bowl with the sugar and warm water for ten minutes, then added all the wet ingredients and blended until well-combined. Then, I added the dry ingredients. I had to add a tablespoon of oil to the mixer in order to get the dough to pull together and pull away from the bowl. I ended up using the tailend of the brown sugar I had on hand in place of the white sugar, and just blended in ground cinnamon. After rolling the dough up and placing it in the pan, I took the remainder of the melted butter and brushed the tops of the loaves. After that, it was just waiting for the bread to rise and then baking. I plan on using the loaves over this weekend, one as recipe states with the icing and another for french toast. For those of you who don't have a bread maker, YOU DON'T NEED ONE. Use your Kitchen Aid mixer! It's really simple. EDITED TO ADD: I made this recipe for the third time today and it seems to get easier each time I make it. This makes GREAT french toast, even some of my friends who made this recipe after I raved about it used it for french toast, too. My kids always eat seconds of this bread, however I make it!

This bread is delicious. Be careful, it is very heavy, and you can taste a hint of egg in the final product. It does need the foil over the top to prevent excess browning on top. Mine came out with a very thick crust by the time it had been in long enough to cook in the middle.

this was soo good the way it is i made it how it said to and used the dough cycle in my bread machine.the only thing i did to it was add rasins before i rolled it up came out perfact my husband loves when i make this and the kids cant get enough

Great recipe. My suggestions: Add about a tablespoon of cinnamon to the dough itself to get more of a cinnamon taste. Add about 1/2 a cup of raisins (per loaf) in the filling along with what the original recipe calls for to make cinnamon raisin swirl bread. The bread was tasty and perfect. Definitely going to use again.