Recipe: Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread with Maple Butter

This week's recipe comes to us from our friends at We Are Not Martha who are working with the Quaker Oats team to promote their Start With Substance campaign. As part of the initiative they wanted to share their delicious Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread with Maple Butter with you! Susie of We Are Not Martha added, “I decided to make an alternative to my daily bowl of Quaker Oats goodness and instead crafted a daily loaf of goodness; incorporating not only my oatmeal, but also cinnamon and maple syrup. That's why we decided to share this Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread with Maple Butter recipe.” Here is the team's creation:

Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread

• 1 1/2 cups Quaker Oats
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tbsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 1/4 cups skim milk
• 2 tbsp. butter (1/4 stick), softened
• 2 tbsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup raisins

Maple Butter

• 1 stick butter
• 1 tbsp. maple syrup
• 1 tbsp. honey

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350° F. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl (Quaker Oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt). Then mix all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl (milk, butter, vanilla, lemon, eggs). Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet using a tabletop or handheld mixer and stir in raisins. Pour batter into a buttered 9×5 loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.

While the bread is baking, soften the stick of butter, put it in a bowl and use a spatula to mix it with the maple syrup and honey. Serve the bread warm with a generous amount of butter on top.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Help out a great cause with Quaker Oats!

Quaker has assigned 25 blogs each one day this month to see how many readers they can get to participate in their Start With Substance program and today is We Are Not Martha's turn! Here's what you can do to help:

1. Visit Start With Substance to get to the Quaker Facebook fan page and to read the official rules.
2. Become a fan of Quaker on Facebook, then download and print out a picture of the Quaker Oatmeal Man.
3. Take your picture with him and upload the picture to the Facebook fan page. See mine here.
4. Put the link to your uploaded Facebook photo in the comments section We Are Not Martha's post.

The blog that gets the most Facebook photo uploads in 24 hours will be awarded $5,000 by Quaker Oats, which We Are Not Martha has elected to donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Please help out this fantastic cause by visiting Start With Substance and participating today!

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