Delicious Soft Sourdough Cinnamon Bread

Soft Sourdough Cinnamon Bread with or without raisins, is a beautifully flavored and sliceable loaf. Your family will love this delicious breakfast bread. This loaf can stand alone as a moist, scrumptious slice or enjoy it toasted with butter or even peanut butter. It can also make an amazing French toast.

By incorporating honey and avocado oil into this traditional sourdough recipe, you will be able easily fold in your sugar cinnamon filling and prevent the crumb from falling apart. The honey and oil work together to build a soft, dense texture more like a sandwich bread.

We walk your through all of the steps needed to help you bake the best Sourdough Cinnamon Loaf in this post.

Originally, we made this no-knead sourdough cinnamon bread by dispersing the raisins throughout the dough during the stretch and fold stage as you see pictured above. This is a great method and we still highly recommend it and the post is built on these instructions.

Over the years, we found this recipe also works well when the raisins are layered into the dough at the final shape of the dough into loaves. Our video uses that method. So please read the post and watch the video so you can see the two processes and decide how you want to make this sourdough cinnamon swirl bread recipe.

Putting the raisins into the rolled layers rather than dispersing them through the dough give you a sourdough cinnamon roll twist bread. It’s all good.

Our video tutorial guides you through the process with a clear visual that is easy to follow

This delicious bread recipe is another winner from our Master Baker Contributor Sasha Hunter. I asked Sasha if she had a good sourdough bread recipe for homemade cinnamon bread.

Sasha takes us through her entire baking process step by step. She shares her sure fire method of making homemade cinnamon bread with raisins. Tips and photos of every step are included, and the pictures you see are Sasha’s pictures while making this bread.

Soft Cinnamon Bread Recipe with raisins

If you need more help making the recipe jump over to the Soft Sourdough Recipe post. It has a lot of information in it for you.

We begin this cinnamon raisin version of the recipe at the second stretch and fold of the process.

If you want a single Cinnamon Raisin Loaf, divide the dough at this point. Continue the recipe for the Cinnamon Raisin Loaf with one half.

Or make the whole recipe and use half for this raisin bread. The other leave plain for a delicious soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread or Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls.

Watch Our video (on the sidebar and at the bottom of the printable recipe card). It shows you a different method for incorporating the raisins. It’s the easiest method if doing two different types of bread from a single batch.

Whole Wheat Cinnamon Bread Recipe

Use this recipe and replace the white flour up to 50% with a good white whole wheat bread flour. This will give you a slightly denser loaf than our sourdough white bread recipe.

If you want to make a 100 % whole wheat cinnamon bread use our Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread recipe with white whole wheat. You may want to add a bit of honey to the dough to make it sweeter for this recipe.

At the second stretch and fold start checking back to this recipe for the cinnamon raisin instructions.

How to Make Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bread:

Here is the detail on how to make this no knead sourdough cinnamon bread with the raisins dispersed through the dough. To place the raisins into the rolled layers only use the method in the video.

Plump the raisins before the first stretch and fold. Mix 150 grams dry weight raisins to an equal weight of water. Allow them to soak until the raisin are completely plumped. Drain and set raisins aside until needed at the second stretch and fold.

Add the raisins into the dough at the second and third stretch and folds. Half of them in the second stretch and fold and the rest in the third.

The plumped raisins are swirled with cinnamon sugar layer. The even distribution of raisins is preferable for little pops of raisin flavor while you eat this delicious bread.

You can also…Take your dough and dump the cinnamon / sugar mix and raisins on top; or chop and fold it all into your dough with your bench scraper.

The Cinnamon Sugar Filling

Measurements for each loaf that you want to make into sourdough cinnamon bread are

• 1/2 cup light brown sugar or cane sugar as you prefer.
• 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon.

This blend can be used as much or as little as your desire. Feel free to double the cinnamon layer or cut it down as your family prefers.

Preparing to form Sourdough Cinnamon Bread loaves

Look at the structure of this dough as it falls out of the bowl. This is what you are shooting for. The gluten is well developed.

Forming the loaves

Here is a visual guide to show you how Sasha forms her loaves and adds in the cinnamon swirl layers.

NOTE: There are two layers of the cinnamon swirl. Sasha is using brown sugar in the process pictures below. You can also choose granulated cane sugar as you prefer.

Rolling it up

The printable recipe card has all the instructions step by step. But the techniques Sasha uses is easiest to understand when you can see the process too. Watch our video for a complete recipe demonstration as well.

Your Printable Recipe Card:

More Sourdough Bread Recipes:

Looking for more sourdough bread? Start with these delicious recipes.

Want even more sourdough recipes? Visit our Sourdough section for sourdough discard recipes, bagels, pretzels and …so much more

Sourcing Sourdough Starter:

All sourdough bread is only as good as the starter you use. Read our posts on how to make your own Sourdough Starter, How to properly feed your sourdough starter, and Drying Sourdough Starter.

If you want to buy sourdough starter that is well established and ready to go CONTACT SASHA. She sells hers all over the US.