Recipes: Amish Friendship Bread Variations

Amish Friendship Bread is making the rounds amongst my friends, I received two last week from different people.  Here is the traditional recipe:

1 c. starter
3 eggs
1 c. canola oil
1 c. milk
1 c. sugar
2 t cinnamon
1/2 t vanilla
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
2 c. flour
1 large box instant vanilla pudding

Preheat oven to 325 degrees, grease 1 large load pans and mix an additional 1/2 c. sugar and 1 1/2 t cinnamon.  Dust the greased pans with half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture.  Pour batter evenly into the pans and sprinkle the top with the remaining mixture.

Bake for 1 hour.  Cool until bread loosens from the sides of pan.

For "my" recipes, I did NOT coat the pans with the cinnamon/sugar mixture.  Here they are, based on some recipes I found but tweaked by me:

Strawberry Cheesecake Bread
* I have not made this with these exact measurements, but this is how I plan to make it in the future.
- cinnamon
- vanilla pudding
+ 1 small package strawberry Jello
+ 1 small package cheesecake pudding
+ 1/2 c. diced strawberries

One of the recipes I based this off of calls for an extra 1/2 c. of milk and slice thawed strawberries.  It took 2 hours to bake and was so moist that it just fell apart.  Oh, it tasted good, but I couldn't hand a loaf over to anyone.  I suggest skipping the extra milk and dicing fresh strawberries to keep it a true bread.

White Chocolate Lemon Bread
* Created this in a desire to replicate Tastefully Simple's Lotsa Lemon Bars, which they no longer sell.  I'm happy to report that the flavor is all there!
- vanilla extract
- cinnamon
- vanilla pudding
+ lemon extra
+ lemon pudding
+ 1/2 to 1 bag of white chocolate chips.

Took about 1 hour and 20 minutes to bake.  I used a 1/2 bag of white chocolate chips, but I'll admit that the chips are pretty sparse, you may want more.  My lemon bread is pictured below:

Other recipes from various sources, including Mommy's Kitchen (what a great site):

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bread
* I made this one, but I forgot the eggs.  I dolled some out to some friends and they still thought it was great, so I think there's a lot to be said for chocolate and peanut butter.
- cinnamon
- vanilla pudding
+ 4 T creamy peanut butter
+ 1/2 bag Reeses peanut butter chips
+ chocolate pudding

Apple Cinnamon Bread
+ 1 c raisins
+ 1 medium, diced apple