Bread Machine Cinnamon Bread (Chocolate Chip)

This bread machine cinnamon bread recipe creates a tasty cinnamon “quick bread” stuffed with chocolate chips. Cinnamon bread is great as a breakfast treat, holiday snack (esp. with some confectioners sugar on top), easy dessert, etc. It is perfect for your favorite cinnamon lover!

Sliced Cinnamon Bread

Recipe Sections

1. Ingredients
2. Instructions
3. Helpful Tips

Recipe Rating 4.73 from 18 votes Featured Comment Jon “i’m a relative n00b when it comes to the bread machine but this recipe made one of the most delicious things to come from it. moist and great amount of sweetness, so delicious! thank you!”

The recipe on this page creates a sweet & moist cinnamon “quick bread” (similar to banana bread) and NOT a sandwich bread. My cinnamon bread uses baking powder/baking soda to rise (versus yeast which is used to create sandwich-type breads). The use of baking powder/soda results in a sweet muffin-like “quick bread” or cake. Moreover, because it uses baking soda & powder, this bread machine cinnamon bread is produced faster than yeast-based breads.

FYI – If you are looking for a cinnamon-based sandwich-type bread recipe (that uses yeast and not baking powder/soda), you should visit my Bread Machine Cinnamon Raisin Bread page.

Key Ingredients – Ground Cinnamon & Mini Chocolate Chips

Since this cinnamon bread recipe is made with a bread machine, it is simple & easy to make. This recipe takes me about 5-10 minutes to prepare and then the bread machines the hard work (e.g. mixing & baking). FYI – You will find a printable and “pin-able” recipe at the bottom of this page.

Ingredients

• 3/4 Cup – Milk – 175 milliliters
• 2 Eggs (lightly beaten)
• 1/2 Cup – Vegetable Oil – 115 milliliters – Use a neutral flavored oil such as corn oil or canola oil
• 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
• 2 Cups – All Purpose Flour – 240 grams
• 3/4 Cup – White Granulated Sugar – 150 grams
• 1/2 Cup – Light Brown Sugar (packed cup) – 107 grams
• 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt – 3 grams
• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder – 4 grams
• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 grams
• 1 Tablespoon – Ground Cinnamon – 9 grams – Tablespoon (not teaspoon!)
• 1/2 Cup – Mini Chocolate Chips – 67 grams

Servings – Roughly 12 slices

Equipment Needed – Measuring cup & spoons, silicone spatula, oven mitts, cooling rack and a bread machine.

Bread Machine Cinnamon – Fresh out of the Bread Machine

Instructions

• Unplug the bread machine.
• Remove the bread pan from the unplugged bread machine.
• Lightly beat the eggs.
• Pour the milk, vegetable oil & eggs into the bread pan and then add the remaining ingredients. FYI – Consider premixing the ingredients before adding the batter to the bread pan if you want to prevent flour sticking to the sides of the bread pan and/or finding small flour “clumps” in the finished cinnamon bread. See tips below.
• Put the bread pan with all of the ingredients back into the bread machine and close the bread machine lid.
• Plug in the bread machine.
• Enter the bread machine settings (Quick Bread/Cake, Light Color, 2 lb) and press the start button. FYI – Before making this recipe, please read the tips section below for more information regarding the cake & sweet “quick bread” setting. The setting on your machine might be called “quick bread”, “quick bread/cake”, “cake”, etc. This setting lasts for roughly 1:40-1:55 hours (and you will see this time in your machine’s electronic display panel). However, some manufacturers use the “quick bread” setting name for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for cake & quick bread recipes that use baking powder/soda). This “quick bread” sandwich bread setting lasts for only 50-60 minutes (which is not long enough for a cake recipe and your cake will be undercooked!!). This setting can be very confusing… but the tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine. You need to enter the correct cake setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or the cake could be under or overcooked. Do not use any settings designed for yeast-based recipes (see your manual).
• When the bread machine has finished baking the cinnamon bread, unplug the bread machine.
• Remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board (without removing the cinnamon bread from the bread pan). Use oven mitts when removing the bread pan because it will be very hot!
• After removing the bread pan from the bread machine, you should let the cinnamon bread stay within the warm bread pan on the wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the baking process). Wear oven mitts.
• After the 10 minute “cooldown”, you should remove the cinnamon bread from the bread pan and place the cinnamon bread on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the bread.
• You should allow the cinnamon bread to completely cool before cutting. This can take up to 2 hours. Otherwise, the cinnamon bread will break (crumble) more easily when cut.
• Please READ the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully and to avoid common bread machine problems with moister “quick bread” recipes such as cinnamon bread & banana bread.

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Helpful Tips

• The tips below are designed to help bread machine “novices” and those who haven’t touched their bread machine in years.
• Click on this “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include our tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.
• This recipe is part of Bread Dad’s series on Bread Machine Recipes such as buttery white bread, banana bread, bagels and French bread.

• Warning – The number 1 error that people make when making this bread machine cinnamon bread recipe & other moist quick bread recipes is using the WRONG setting. The people who have a problem often use the “quick” or “quick bread” setting designed for fast sandwich bread recipes that use yeast… and NOT the “quick bread” or “cake” setting designed for moist quick breads (e.g. banana bread & cinnamon bread) that use baking soda/powder. These are two totally different settings. You need to find the correct baking soda/powder setting used with YOUR specific make & model of bread machine. FYI – To avoid this error, please read the setting tips lower down in this tips section.
• IMPORTANT – To find the “quick bread/cake” setting names used by some of the most popular bread machines, you should visit my Bread Machine Quick Bread Settings page. I set this up to help people find the correct setting for their particular machine (as some bread machines are more problematic than others with my “quick bread/cake” recipes). Please read this “settings” page to avoid a potential baking disaster.
• Another common error – Not premixing or scraping the sides of the bread pan. If you do not premix/scrape, you are very likely to have flour stuck to the sides of the bread pan and your cinnamon bread. Compared to making bread dough, bread machines have a much harder time completely mixing the batter of moist “quick breads” (lots of flour gets stuck to the sides of the bread pan). For more information, read the premixing/scraping tips lower down on the page.

• SORRY THE TIPS SECTION IS SO LONG & that the recipe instructions are probably overly detailed… BUT… many bread machines differ and I want to help everyone to maximize their moist quick bread “success” with their specific bread machine model!
• If your machine’s electronic display is showing 50-60 minutes (total time for mixing & baking) before you press the “start” button, you have entered the WRONG setting. The total time should be roughly 1:40-1:55 hours (100-115 minutes). Moreover, the baking length of the “quick bread” setting is roughly 1:10-1:20 hours (out of the total 1:40-1:55 minutes for this setting). Yeast breads spend a long time on kneading/rising and much less on baking (where as moist quick breads spend only a short time on rising – as they are using fast rising baking powder/soda – and a long time on baking). Therefore, a 1:55 hour yeast bread setting will NOT work for a 1:55 hour moist “quick bread” setting. You need to use the correct setting for this recipe to work in your bread machine.

• Before making this recipe, please read the tips below especially the section focused on the sweet “quick bread/cake” setting (located around the middle of our tips) because bread machines vary & require you to be knowledgeable about your specific bread machine model when making a moist cinnamon bread. For example, if you do not use the correct setting, you will have trouble with bread machine recipes (e.g. your cinnamon bread may be potentially under or overcooked). The setting name used for moist cinnamon breads differs on many bread machine models and may be called “Quick”, “Quick Bread”, “Cake”, “Cake/Quick Bread”, etc. Therefore, you need to determine the specific setting on your bread machine model (READ YOUR MANUAL) that was designed for sweet quick bread recipes (e.g. cinnamon bread or banana bread) that use baking soda/powder and not yeast. I know that this can be confusing… but the “sweet quick bread” tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine.
• This recipe will NOT work in smaller bread machines that have only 1 lb loaf capacities. It will only fit larger bread machines with 1.5 lb or higher capacities. “Quick breads” such as this cinnamon bread and banana bread don’t rise very much (unlike sandwich-type breads). Therefore, this 2 lb loaf should fit into a 1.5 lb or higher capacity bread machine.

• This recipe is NOT for a sandwich-type bread (e.g. cinnamon raisin bread). Rather, it creates a sweet quick bread similar to banana bread, pumpkin bread, etc.
• If you are looking for a sandwich-type cinnamon bread recipe (made with yeast and not baking powder/soda), you should try our Bread Machine Cinnamon Raisin Bread recipe. It is perfect as toast or for a slightly different sandwich bread.
• Important – You should use MINI semi-sweet chocolate chips when making this cinnamon quick bread recipe. Regular sized chocolate chips are heavier and tend to sink to the bottom of the batter (smaller & lighter “mini” chips seem to spread out better in bread machine quick breads).
• Use a neutral flavored vegetable oil (e.g. canola or corn oil) for the best results. Stronger tasting oils can negatively impact the flavor of the cinnamon bread.
• Optional – If you want to use olive oil to make this recipe (e.g. for health reasons), I would suggest using a “mild” or “light” olive oil. Strong flavored olive oils (e.g. extra virgin olive oil) can overwhelm the taste of this cinnamon bread.
• Optional – If you want to a more buttery flavor, you can replace the oil with melted butter.

• Optional – You can also easily turn this quick bread into a cinnamon nut bread. Just replace the chocolate chips with a 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts.
• Optional – You can turn this into a type of “fruit” cake but replacing the chocolate chips with dried fruit such as golden raisins, dried cranberries, dried blueberries, etc.
• Optional – Adding confectioner’s sugar on top of the cinnamon bread is an easy & simple way to turn this sweet quick bread into a holiday treat (because it adds a “wintery” top). In addition, if you damaged the top when removing the cinnamon bread from the bread pan, adding some confectioners sugar on top is an easy way to hide any damage.
• Visitors – What extra ingredients do you like to add to this recipe? Chopped nuts? Dried fruit? Leave your recipe variations in the comment section below.
• Visitor variations – Samantha substituted “a TBSP of pumpkin pie spice instead of just cinnamon because its close enough to fall for pumpkin spice lol”.

• Sweet “Quick Bread” Setting Details – According to Wikipedia and most bakers, this cinnamon bread is a type of “quick bread” (that uses baking soda/powder instead of yeast). Unfortunately, this term (quick bread) has led to a lot of confusion because bread machine manufacturers often use similar setting names to make rapid/express/quick sandwich-type breads (with yeast) as well as completely different dessert-type quick breads (e.g. cinnamon bread & banana bread) with baking powder/soda.
• IMPORTANT – Make sure to use the specific setting on your bread machine designed for SWEET QUICK BREADS/CAKES. Read your manual! This setting is for sweet quick bread recipes (e.g. cinnamon bread or banana bread) that use baking soda/powder (and not yeast).
• Be aware that the setting name used for moist cinnamon bread recipes can vary by bread machine manufacturer. Here are some examples of the setting names used to make quick breads (e.g. this cinnamon bread or banana bread) on various bread machines – the Sunbeam Breadmaker 5891 uses the “Quick” setting, the Hamilton Beach Bread Maker 29881 uses the “Quick” setting, the Black & Decker BOOONJBYXO Bread Maker uses the “Quick Bread” setting, the Breadman 2lb. Professional Bread Maker (BK1050S) uses the “Quick Bread” setting, the Zojirushi BB-PAC20 Bread Maker uses the “Cake” setting and the Cuisinart CBK-100 Bread Maker uses the “Cake/Quick Bread” setting. Therefore, you must check your bread machine’s instructions for the exact setting name used to make this cinnamon bread by your specific bread machine model.
• However, be aware that some bread machine models have only a limited number of settings and may NOT have a setting that can be used for sweet quick breads (e.g. cinnamon bread or banana bread). These bread machines are primarily focused on making sandwich-type breads. For example, the Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity (model CKSTBRTW20NP) does not have a setting for quick breads such as cinnamon bread or banana bread (the “sweet” and “quick” settings on this model are used for yeast breads). However, other Oster models do have a quick bread/cake setting. In addition, the Breadman TR444 does not have a setting for quick breads but some of the more advanced Breadman bread machines such as the Breadman 2lb. Professional Bread Maker (model BK1050S) do have a quick bread setting. Always read your bread machine manual carefully in order to see if your specific bread machine model can make quick breads (check the setting and recipe sections of the manual for definitive examples).
• You can not use regular sandwich-type bread settings in order to make this moist cinnamon bread. For example, the length of the baking cycle often differs.

• Don’t be fooled by setting names like Rapid Bread or Express Bread (as these settings are often used for very rapid baking of yeast-based sandwich breads and are not used for sweet quick breads that use baking powder/soda). They will leave your cinnamon bread undercooked. For example, on my Sunbeam, the sweet quick bread setting lasts for roughly 1:40 hours versus the express setting which lasts for only 58 minutes.
• IMPORTANT – Be aware that some bread machine manufacturers even label the rapid/express sandwich bread setting as “Quick Bread”. This can cause a lot of confusion!! because they use the “quick bread” name in order to describe a setting that makes a rapid sandwich-type bread with yeast. This setting is not used to make a sweet quick bread recipe (such as cinnamon bread or banana bread) that uses baking powder/soda. In general, a setting used for yeast breads can’t be used to make quick bread recipes (such as cinnamon bread) due to different rising & baking lengths.
• Moreover, in many bread machines, the “sweet bread” setting is used for sweet breads that use YEAST (not quick breads that use baking soda/powder). “Sweet bread” recipes are different from sweet quick bread recipes (e.g. cinnamon bread or banana bread) and utilize different mixing & baking times. Therefore, this bread machine cinnamon bread recipe is unlikely to work on the “sweet bread” setting.

• If you are still having trouble finding the sweet quick bread setting, check your bread machine manual for details regarding the “Cake” setting on your machine. Some bread machines have a cake setting that states that they can be used for sweet quick breads (and the mixing & baking will last roughly for 1 hour 40-50 minutes). However, other bread machines have a cake setting that is not designed for sweet quick breads. For example, my bread machine (Sunbeam) has a cake setting (that lasts for 2 hours 50 minutes) and a “Quick” (used for quick breads such as cinnamon bread & banana bread) setting (that lasts for roughly 1 hour 40 minutes). Therefore, this cinnamon bread recipe would probably not work well with the cake setting on my machine.
• FYI – A couple of visitors have mentioned that their Pohl machines can occasionally underbake moist “quick breads” (e.g. banana bread & cinnamon bread). As a solution, these visitors like to premix the batter and then use the “bake” setting (not cake setting) to create a longer baking time (versus relying on the preset cake setting) in order to fully bake their quick bread. Given this issue, please read the Pohl manual carefully on how to make moist quick breads with your specific machine.
• On my Sunbeam bread machine (and a number of other bread makers e.g. Hamilton Beach), the sweet quick bread setting lasts for roughly 1:40 hours… with 20 minutes of mixing & 80 minutes in the baking stage.
• Be aware that older and newer models from the same manufacturer can even use different setting names. Therefore, you need to read the manual included with your specific model in order to determine the correct setting used by your bread machine. Don’t guess with settings or assume that the setting used by a similar model from your bread machine manufacturer is the same as the setting used by your model.

• I know this can be super confusing… but always read your bread machine manual and look for the specific setting designed for sweet quick breads (that use baking soda/powder and have lots of sugar & butter/oil in the recipe).
• If you have lost your bread machine manual, you can usually find it by searching online. For example, I can find my manual by typing “Sunbeam bread machine manual” into Google.
• Many bread machine manufacturers also have recipe booklets where you can also find more information on how to make a “quick bread” (e.g. cinnamon bread) with your specific bread machine model. These manufacturer recipes can also help if you are still uncertain on what bread machine setting to use. Look to see if there is a sweet quick bread recipe (e.g. cinnamon bread, banana bread or pumpkin bread) that uses lots of sugar, moisture (e.g. milk, bananas, pumpkin puree, applesauce, etc.), butter/oil, baking powder/soda and NO yeast. This should give you an idea about what setting to use for sweet quick bread recipes on your machine.

• Do not eliminate the brown sugar from this recipe (e.g. replace the brown sugar with white granulated sugar). The molasses in brown sugar helps to activate the baking soda. Without this activation, this quick bread might not rise properly and/or you might taste the non-activated baking soda.
• Use FRESH ingredients (e.g. baking soda and flour) for the best results. For example, if you use stale baking soda and/or baking powder, your cinnamon bread will not rise properly and will be too dense. Baking soda & powder is best if used within 6 months of opening the container.
• I like to store my ingredients (e.g. flour) in airtight containers in order to extend their shelf life. Airtight containers reduce exposure to moisture in the air, dust, pests, etc.

• Optional – If the top center of the bread looks too moist when you take it out of the bread machine (or you want to make sure the cinnamon bread is completely cooked), you can try the classic baking “toothpick test”. Gently push a long wooden skewer (or long wooden chopstick) into the center of the bread and see if any batter sticks to the skewer. Make sure to wear oven gloves because the bread pan and bread machine will still be hot. If batter is sticking to the skewer then it hasn’t completely cooked. Place the bread loaf pan back into the still warm bread machine for another 5-10 minutes. After the 5-10 minutes, remove the bread pan and retest the cinnamon bread again with the skewer.
• Since a toothpick can be too short, I like to use a long chopstick or wooden skewer when conducting the classic “toothpick” test. Remember always wear oven mitts when dealing with a hot bread pan and bread machine.
• Flour sticking to the sides of your bread machine cinnamon bread? Unfortunately, bread machines have a harder time mixing moister sweet quick bread recipes (versus drier sandwich bread dough). Therefore, after the first mixing cycle has fully stopped (and before the second & final mixing cycle has begun), I like to scrape the sides of the bread pan with a flexible silicon spatula (not a metal spatula). This loosens any flour that may be sticking to the sides of the bread pan (because a bread machine mixing “paddle” doesn’t quite reach the sides of the bread pan). For safety purposes, I do not scrape the sides of the bread pan when the mixing blade is moving. In addition, people should not stick their hands inside bread machines. Moreover, people should always wear oven mitts when dealing with a bread machine because the bread pan & bread machine interior can get quite hot.

• Nevertheless, ALWAYS follow the instructions included in the manufacturer’s manual for your specific bread machine in order to safely scrape the inside of your bread pan.
• Finding small white flour “clumps” in your cinnamon bread? This is caused if your bread machine is having a problem with mixing the flour in the “wetter” quick bread batter. Some people get around this issue by PREMIXING their ingredients. They will first mix all of the ingredients by hand in a mixing bowl and then add it to the bread machine bread pan (versus adding all of the ingredients to the bread pan and letting the bread machine mix everything). While this is an extra step, premixing the ingredients greatly reduces the potential for any unwanted small flour “clumps” and/or flour sticking to the sides of the finished cinnamon bread. Always remember to add the ingredients (or hand mixed batter) to the bread pan when the bread pan is out of the bread machine and the bread machine is unplugged.
• Another way to deal with flour “clumps” – You can use a fine mesh strainer or flour sifter to sift your flour (before mixing the flour with the wet ingredients). This “aerates” the flour and breaks up & screens out small flour lumps.
• Visitors – If you have any questions about this recipe, please ask BEFORE you make your bread machine cinnamon bread. This will save you from a possibly over or undercooked cinnamon bread. Post all questions in the comment box at the bottom of the page.

• If you have a problem with a bread machine recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly. You will need to make sure that you are inputting the correct bread machine settings, using the exact ingredient measurements (e.g. don’t “eyeball” the measurements versus using a measuring cup), using the exact ingredients called for in the recipe (e.g. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes unless you are willing to live with your experiments!
• My recipes are based on US ingredient measurements (e.g. US cups & tablespoons). However, as a courtesy to our European visitors, I have also included some very ROUGH European equivalents (e.g. grams & milliliters). Since I rarely use European measurements when baking, please let me know in the comment section below if any of the European ingredient measurements need to be changed (e.g. for XYZ ingredient, milliliters are more commonly used versus the grams information listed in the recipe).

• Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with a bread machine. The bread pan and the rest of the bread machine can get very hot during the baking process. This means that the bread pan and bread machine is likely to be very hot when you attempt to remove a baked good from the bread machine and/or bread pan.
• Please read the instructions/manual included with your bread machine in order to use it safely and effectively. Recipe instructions & settings may differ slightly depending on the brand & model of bread machine utilized.
• If you like bread machine quick bread recipes, you might also like to try our recipes for Bread Machine Banana Bread, Bread Machine Pumpkin Bread, Bread Machine Gingerbread, Bread Machine Cornbread (sweet), etc.
• For more easy bread machine recipes (e.g. white bread, pizza dough, banana bread, French bread, whole wheat bread, etc.), please visit Bread Dad’s main Bread Machine Recipes section.

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