Cinnamon Bread
Pepperidge Farm, Inc.®
What Makes a Great Cinnamon Bread?
Served with cream cheese, sweet butter or your favorite jam, cinnamon bread is a superb breakfast bread. Try a few toasted slices with your next bowl of oatmeal, or use it for a spicier batch of French toast. You can even sprinkle sugar on toasted and buttered cinnamon bread for instant cinnamon toast.
Our chefs define high-quality cinnamon bread as having a tan to white color with visible cinnamon and a crumb that is uniform and slightly dense. The moderate aroma intensity should have a complex character that features notes of cinnamon spice and well-developed, yeasty bread notes. There should be no inappropriate off notes coming from the packaging or processing.
Cinnamon bread is in taste balance when noticeable to moderate sweetness is the leading basic taste. The sweetness should be balanced by lower levels of saltiness, followed by extremely low bitterness and sourness.
A combination of cinnamon and bread flavors will create the ideal flavor balance. Moderate cinnamon will be the leading flavor, followed by a slightly lower bread flavor. The bread character should have some complexity, with yeasty and slight fermentation (fermented flour and/or grain) notes. The complex cinnamon character should deliver a high-quality cinnamon flavor that features earthy, naturally sweet and floral notes and is not harsh.
When chewed, cinnamon bread slices should be moist and tender. The bread should dissolve at a moderate rate without becoming gummy or cohesive, i.e., balling up while being chewed. The bread's density should fall between that of pumpernickel and white bread, making it able to withstand a thick butter spread, but it should not so dense that it's hard to chew.
Product Category Definition
The product judged was defined as cinnamon bread for the consumer market, not including cinnamon raisin bread or sliced sandwich breads (such as white, wheat, rye, etc.).
Sara Lee Baking Group®
The ChefsBest® Award for Best Taste is awarded to the brand rated highest overall among leading brands by independent professional chefs.
One-Step Ideas
- For breakfast grilled cheese, spread softened cream cheese between two slices of cinnamon bread and brown in a buttered skillet.
- Cinnamon bread is perfect for bread pudding.
- Use stale slices to make extra special French toast.
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Flavor Balance
A measurement of how well a food product matches the expected profile of flavors.
Example: If there is too much garlic in a marinara sauce, the flavor of garlic will dominate the other flavors, making the overall flavor unbalanced.
Bitter Intensity
The measurement of perceived bitterness in a particular food.
Example: Brewed coffee sometimes has a strong bitter intensity.
- Humans have been producing and eating bread for more than six thousand years.
- Cinnamon, seasoned salt and chili powder are the three most common seasonings in U.S. kitchens.
- One bushel of wheat can produce more than 70 loaves of bread.