Make your Amish Friendship Bread into muffins with a few easy tweaks. This recipe for a Cinnamon Raisin Walnut variation is one of our favorites.
Amish Friendship Bread Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Muffins
Make your Amish Friendship Bread into muffins with a few easy tweaks. This recipe for a Cinnamon Raisin Walnut variation is one of our favorites.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 box vanilla instant pudding
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup walnuts chopped (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed.
- Grease 24 (or 12 large jumbo) muffin tins.
- Dust the greased tins with a mixture of 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
- Fill muffin tins halfway and sprinkle the top with turbinado sugar.
- Bake for 20 minutes (45 minutes for jumbo muffins) or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- ENJOY!
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Why can you bake the muffins in a metal tin but you can’t bake the bread in a metal loaf pan?
Hi Michelle! The original reason not to put your starter with metal items was because there’s a chemical reaction that occurs between the fermenting starter and metal. BUT (and this is a huge but), if your metal utensils, bowls, or loafs pans are stainless steel or coated, like most utensils are bowls are nowadays, you’re probably fine (so yes, your KitchenAid mixer shouldn’t be a problem). If they’re scratched up in any way, it will turn–and spoil–your starter almost instantly. You’ll also want to avoid using grandma’s old aluminum muffin tin for this same reason.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
Is there a recipe for a carrot cake like muffins with carrots,pineapple and raisins?
Hi Elizabeth! Here’s our take on carrot cake cupcakes: https://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/carrot-cake-amish-friendship-bread-with-cream-cheese-frosting/
This recipe does call for raisins, and you could add in pineapples, as well! Happy baking!
And this recipe can be made in the 2 loaves instead? Is that correct ?
ALSO. Do you have to add that much sugar to the starter and the recipe? It just seems like so much sugar?
Hi Sondra! Feeding sugar to your Amish Friendship Bread starter on days six and ten of the feeding cycle is essential. The starter feeds on the sugar, creating the chemical reaction that makes the starter bubbly, happy, and healthy. While there are sugar-free variations of Amish Friendship Bread starter, our recipe calls for one cup of sugar every time you feed it. As for the sugar in this recipe, that’s more flexible. If you’re looking for a hardier, more savory muffin, you can lessen the sugar, or even omit it. The bread will maintain the tangy flavor of the starter but be much less sweet. Hope this helps!
Hi Sondra! Yes, this recipe can be adapted for two loaves. The oven temperature remains the same (325 degrees). Just increase the baking time to 1 hour instead of 20 minutes. If you have any other conversion questions, you can check out our conversion tables here. Happy baking!
This is the recipe I would like to use with the mini-bundt pans.
Are you supposed to divide the cup of sugar…. 1/2 for batter and 1/2 cup for cinnamon sugar mix?
Hi Jane! It’s not divided — the 1 cup of sugar is for the muffin recipe only. If you want to top with the cinnamon-sugar mixture, that’s another ½ cup. You may end up with extra — it’s easy to store and save for the next time you bake. https://www.friendshipbreadkitchen.com/recipe-sugar-cinnamon-mixture/
These cimnamon raisin and walnuts muffins sound delicious, my daughter and husband will love them, i am savimg it to try it diring the holidays.
Made these for “on-the-road” treats as family members returned home to Alabama after Thanksgiving. The recipe made 24 in the two regular muffin pans I have. Of course, not ALL of them would fit in the box I prepared for the trip. What else could I do but set the extras aside? With that stroke of unexpected luck, (grin) I was able to enjoy a few of them myself! Yum!
I would love to try these, they remind me of cinnamon rolls without all the fuss.
Making this tomorrow!
I made this today and made the mini cupcakes. PERFECT.
I only used one package of pudding and back them for about 20 minutes. Perfect quick bite or a quick breakfast.