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Everyone loves cinnamon, don’t they? This bread sounded so inviting, and I wanted to make something where I could just use ingredients at hand and didn’t have to go to the store (it’s been pouring rain for so many days around here – we’re considering building an ark!). Cinnamon bread from Closet Cooking blog to the rescue. I modified the recipe to keep it dairy-free; a very satisfying bread for cinnamon lovers everywhere. Enjoy!

Cinnamon bread

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup margarine (room temperature) (original recipe calls for butter)

1 cup white sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon lemon zest

1 cup plain soy yogurt (original recipe calls for buttermilk)

1 cup brown sugar

2 heaping tablespoons ground cinnamon

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.

Cream the margarine and sugar in another bowl.

Beat in the eggs, salt, vanilla, and lemon zest.

Mix 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.

Mix 1/2 of the yogurt into the wet ingredients.

Mix another 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.

Mix the remaining yogurt into the wet ingredients.

Mix the remaining 1/3 dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.

Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.

Pour 1/3 of the batter into a greased 9 x 5″ loaf pan.

Pour 1/3 of the cinnamon mixture on top.

Pour 1/3 of the batter on top.

Pour 1/3 of the cinnamon mixture on top.

Pour the remaining batter on top.

Pour the remaining cinnamon mixture on top.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about an hour.

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