Cake Mix Sunrise Cinnamon Loaves are perfect for breakfast, brunch or even dessert. Yellow cake mix makes for a moist bread, and the cinnamon sugar is tasty swirled all the way through the loaves. Making breakfast bread with cake mix is easy, and it is perfect to pop an extra loaf in the freezer to have later.

Cake Mix Sunrise Cinnamon Loaves

Sunrise Cinnamon Loaves have beautiful swirls of cinnamon sugar all throughout the bread. This recipe is a quick bread, and by using cake mix, it is even quicker to put together.

Ingredient List for Cake Mix Cinnamon Bread

Yellow Cake Mix
Eggs
Vegetable Oil
Water
Vanilla Extract
Ground Cinnamon
Sugar

How to Make Cake Mix Sunrise Cinnamon Loaves

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and prep two loaf pans by greasing and flouring.
Combine the first 5 ingredients in large mixing bowl and beat on high for 3 minutes.
Pour a quarter of the batter into the bottom of each pan.
Combine cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl and sprinkle half over the batter in the pans.
Spread the remaining batter evenly into the loaf pans; sprinkle the top of the loaves with the remaining sugar mixture.
Use a knife to gently swirl sugar and cinnamon into batter.
Bake for approximately 30 to 35 minutes, and cool on wire racks.

Full recipe steps and ingredient for making bread with cake mix is in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Notes About Breakfast Bread with Cake Mix

Look for cake mixes that say they have pudding added. Aldi’s brand has pudding-in-the-mix, as does Betty Crocker and Pillsbury. If you can’t find one with pudding, regular cake mix works too.
Substitute white cake mix, lemon cake mix or any other options for a fun new spin on these sunrise loaves.
Chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or chopped nuts would be a great addition to this quick bread using cake mix recipe.
The sugar on top can burn, so be sure to check the loaves around the 30 minute mark in the oven.
Wrap tightly in aluminum foil, and then put in an airtight zip-lock bag to store in the freezer for later.
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What is Freezer Cooking?

I originally made this cinnamon quick bread as part of a marathon freezer cooking session with friends. What is freezer cooking? Good question. Cris over at Goodeness Gracious does a great job explaining the concept over on her blog here.

This is the second time I took part in this type of marathon cooking day and I have to admit it stresses me out just a bit! However, we had a great time and I came home with SO MUCH food!

Thanks to Gooseberry Patch we had a head start picking our recipes with their Freezer-Friendly Recipes cookbook. I chose the Sunrise Cinnamon Loaves as my recipe!

After it was all said and done, I had nine delicious smelling soups, side dishes and entrees in my car! Rumor has it that many of the loaves I made didn’t make it to the freezer…the one I took home may not have either!

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