Cinnamon Raisen Beer Bread

Do you remember when Tastefully Simple Beer Bread was all the rage?  You just had to add a beer to it, mix it up and bake til golden.  Oh yum.  My mom ordered it a few times, but it was really expensive so she found a way to make beer bread from scratch:

3 cups self-rising flour  ( make your own self-rising flour: 1 cup AP flour, 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder & 1/4 teaspoon salt )
3 tablespoons sugar
1 (12 oz.) beer or carbonated beverage

Mix til moistened and pour into a greased 8" bread pan.  Bake on 350F for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown.

This beer bread is perfect with soup for supper and great toasted with butter and jam for breakfast the next day.  Even though it is a quick bread it smells and tastes a bit like yeast bread from the beer.

Yesterday I woke up to the most amazing smell coming out of our oven.  My mom had made a new version of her traditional beer bread: Cinnamon Raisen Beer Bread.  It smelled and tasted kind of like cinnamon rolls.  YUM.

Instead of beer my mom used Angry Orchard Apple Ginger Hard Cider and added cinnamon and raisens to the original mix.

Cinnamon Raisen Beer Bread

2 1/2 cups self-rising flour

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1 ginger hard cider

3 tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 cup raisens

3 tablespoons butter, cut into thin slices

Preheat oven to 350F and grease an 8" bread pan. In a bowl stir, flours, cider, sugar cinnamon, and raisens together  until moistened. Pour into prepared pan.  Place butter evenly over dough.  Bake for 45-50 minutes until golden brown around the edges.