Sweet and savory breads

Last week when i baked bread I realized that baking bread is actually cheaper than buying really nice bread in the store and it tastes oh so good.  So I set a personal goal for myself and I am going to try to bake some kind of bread at least once a week.  When I told my hubby this, he looked like a child who was told Christmas would be coming twice this year.  Anyone who knows my husband can attest to the fact that he has something of a bread addiction.  I swear he would eat bread for every meal if he could.  Now that I have already baked the basic white bread that I grew up on, I wanted to challenge myself to come up with other types of bread.

My first choice for today was easy.  Ever since childhood, the bread aisle in the grocery store has always been my favorite.  While some kids begged their parents for cookies in the cookie aisle, I couldn't wait for the moment we entered the bread aisle and I could breathe in the aroma of cinnamon bread.  Even now I still love to make that trip down the aisle simple for the smell itself.  My one problem is that I absolutely hate raisins. So while I have always loved to smell cinnamon bread, i have never bought it because stores tend to fill it with the very thing I detest.  i set the goal for myself to make a bread that smelled just as delicious but was tasty as well.  Since I didn't want raisins I decided to make cinnamon chocolate chip bread because how can you go wrong with chocolate?

I knew this bread would be sweet and I didn't only want to make sweet bread so this week is a two bread week.  For something savory, I designed a garlic cheese bread that could be delicious alone or as part of a sandwich.

For the dough I started with the basic white bread dough I made last week.  I made it exactly the same until I reached the point where I divided it in half. That is when I changed each loaf to make one sweet and one savory.

The cinnamon bread is on the left and the garlic cheese is on the right

Cinnamon chocolate chip bread

Ingredients

Half of the white bread dough

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

handful dark chocolate chips

handful semisweet chocolate chips

melted butter

Directions

1. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl

2. Roll out dough to about a 18 inch by nine inch rectangle.  

3. lightly brush with butter and spread cinnamon and sugar over entire thing.  press chocolate chips into dough.

4. roll up tightly.  fold ends under and place in greased bread pan.  brush with butter. let rise 30-50 minutes.

5. bake at 425 for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. brush with more butter and let cool before removing from pan.

Garlic cheese bread

Ingredients

Half of white bread dough

4-5 garlic cloves

grated cheese of choice (i used cheddar and monterey jack)

Directions

1. Roll dough to a 9 by 18 inch rectangle.

2. Mince garlic until it becomes almost a paste and spread on dough.  sprinkle with cheese.

3. Roll tightly. Fold ends under and place in greased bread pan.  Press cheese into top. Let rise 30-50  minutes.

4. Bake at 425 for 25-30 minutes or until turns golden brown and cheese on top gets crispy.  let cool before removing from bread pan.