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This cinnamon roll bread makes a great dessert or a sweet treat for breakfast! It’s ready in about 15 minutes!
You guys, I have made a grave mistake.
There is this local restaurant that sells buckets full of spaghetti and ravioli and these delicious sandwiches on the best Italian bread with salami and ham and turkey. They don’t deliver and, if you want to use the drive up window, you have to order ahead by phone. We don’t order from there often because, like most of the world, I hate ordering via phone. It’s 2017. Can’t we just do online orders?
Anyway.
My kids were begging for their gondola sandwiches the other night so I placed an order and they asked if I wanted to add an order of cinnamon sugar bread.
I mean.
Really?
Do you think anyone says no to that?
I did not say no that. I am no dummy.
So, now we’re obsessed and this cinnamon sugar bread was seriously getting me outside of my comfort zone. I was calling in orders all the time.
I finally figured out that hey, actually maybe I AM a dummy, because obviously cinnamon sugar bread is not hard to make at home. So that’s what I did here.
But I added cream cheese frosting so now this is cinnamon roll bread and yep. It’s even better than the local Italian joint with the buckets of spaghetti.
You’re welcome. Or I’m sorry. I’m not sure which is the appropriate saying in this instance. On the one hand, I’m giving you delicious carbs coated in cinnamon and sugar and slathered with a simple cream cheese frosting. On the other hand, I’m giving you delicious carbs coated in cinnamon and sugar and slathered with a simple cream cheese frosting.
You see how this is both a good and a bad thing, right?
Either way, go ahead and make this and let me know what you think. It’s really good and your kids will love you for this one.
It almost reminds me of my cinnamon sugar shortbread bars, cinnamon blondies recipe, and Bisquick cinnamon rolls. Easy cinnamon sugar goodness!
Cinnamon Roll Bread
Ingredients
For the bread
- 1 loaf French bread
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature 1 stick
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
For the frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Slice the loaf of French bread in half length-wise.
- Add the butter, sugars, and cinnamon to a small mixing bowl and stir until well combined.
- Spread mixture evenly between the two halves of bread.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- While the bread is baking, prepare the frosting. Add the cream cheese, powdered, sugar, milk, and vanilla to a small mixing bowl and mix until well combined, smooth, and creamy.
- Let the bread cool for 5 minutes before slicing and drizzling with the frosting.
- Serve immediately after frosting.
Gloria Vincent says
I’d luv see the video of a cheesecake being made. Plus the recipe please. It ran about two months ago and I believe it was a male making it. Thanks .
Mireille | The Tortilla Channel says
Karly I had to come and visit ? ! What a lovely website you have and what a delicious recipe this is. We do not have a store here where we could buy it so making it is the only option. Which is not a bad thing!!!!
Emily says
MMMMMMmmmm please tell me that means Avanti’s!!! I went to college right down the street from one. Now I drive the hour and half occasionally just to go get a bucket of sauce and bread to dip in it!!!
Karly says
It was actually La Gondola. My kids love Avanti’s though!
Kathy @ Beyond the Chicken Coop says
There’s no way I could say no to this! I think you are so smart finding a way to make it at home…however, that probably means you’ll eat it more often! I could live with that, but maybe not my waist line! 🙂
Pamela says
Looks incredibly tasty Karly, and Sooooo easy… my favorite kind of recipe 🙂 Can’t wait to try this.
Arlene A Slobecheski says
Oh my goodness, you have given me such a sweet trip down memory lane.
When I was a young married lady in NJ we would get Hard Rolls (Kaiser rolls) from the deli for sandwiches and any leftover rolls were split and toasted in the oven and then slathered with your cinnamon-sugar mix and back in the oven again. It was such a sweet way to start the day with a cup of coffee. Now I can’t wait to do it again. Thank you so much.
Pamela Byington says
Do you think it would be as good with sourdough bread? Has so much more flavor but maybe not for this particular bread.
Karly says
I do think it’d be good with sourdough! 🙂
Jodi says
I make this all the time Karly! My boys love it. Dang it, now I need to make some!! Looks amazing!!!
Christine says
Yum! This is too easy and looks delicious! I can eat my screen?
Marvellina Goh says
oh my…this cinnamon roll bread!!!!! I could just scrape that cinnamon brown sugar on top of the bread and eat it like that (my favorite part!)
Karly says
That doesn’t sound like a bad idea! 🙂