Quick Buttermilk Cinnamon Bread

This quick and easy bread recipe allows you to share a good-looking loaf with a friend. Or make five mini loaves for the church bazarr or for freezing.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Yields: 2 loaves

Ingredients

• 4  cups flour
• 2  teaspoons baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup  vegetable oil
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2  cups buttermilk
• 2  eggs
• 1  tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1  cup sugar
• 2  tablespoons walnuts, finely chopped

Directions

1. Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
2. In a small bowl combine oil and sugar; add buttermilk and eggs and mix well; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
3. Fill 2 greased 8"x4"x2" loaf pans (or five 5"x2 1/2" mini loaf pans) about 1/3 full.
4. Combine cinnamon and remaining 1 cup sugar; sprinkle half over the batter; top with remaining batter and cinnamon-sugar; swirl batter with a knife; sprinkle with nuts.
5. Bake at 350°, 45-55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean; cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.