Wanna be Friendship Bread Friends???

So I got a text from my friend Datha about 12 days ago saying she was making “friendship” bread and did I want one of the kits when it was ready.

I was like “sure, I'll try it!”

I don't know who out there is familiar with the bread.

Here's the recipe:

Amish Friendship Bread

Do not use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing

Do not refrigerate

Day 1 Do nothing this is the day you received the batter.

Day 2 Mush the bag

Day 3 Mush the bag

Day 4 Mush the bag

Day 5 Mush the bag

Day 6 Add the following ingredients to the bag:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of sugar

Mush the bag

Day 7 Mush the bag

Day 8 Mush the bag

Day 9 Mush the bag

Day 10 Follow the instructions below:

Pour entire contents of bag into a NON METAL BOWL. Mix in

• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• 1 1/2 cups of sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of milk

Measure out 4 separate batter portions 1 cup each into 1 gallon Ziploc bags.

Date the bags. These are starter kits. Keep one for yourself and give the other 3 to friends with a copy of the instructions. Should they not be passed on to friends on the first day, tell them which day the bag is at when given to them.

Preheat oven to 325 F

Add the following to the remainder of the batter:

3 eggs 1 cup oil 1/2 cup milk 1 cup sugar 2 tsp cinnamon (Optional) 1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 2 cups flour 1 lrg box of vanilla instant pudding (8 servings)

Grease two large loaf pans and mix an additional 1/2 cup sugar & 1 tsp cinnamon. Dust the greased pans with half of the mixture. Pour batter evenly into the tow pans and sprinkle the top with remaining mixture. Bake for one hour. Cool until bread loosens from the pan (about 10 mins). Turn onto serving dish, serve warm or cool.

If you keep a starter kit for yourself you will be baking every 10 days. The bread is very good and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to create the original starter, so if you give them all away, you will have to wait for someone to give you one back!

Variations

Use chocolate instant pudding and add chocolate chips or toffee bits.

Add cranberries, etc....

Now I have to be honest I didn't do the extra mixture for the dusting...but did add a cup of chocolate and butterscotch chips. (a cup in total not a cup of each).

Here's the deal it looks good but I'm scared to try it...dairy products were out on the counter for 10+ days....sketchy!  I know that we don't know the half of how things are made and packaged for us out there in the big bad factories but I do know how this was made....and my OCD is kicking in!  

Who has eaten this?? Was it a good experience?? Was it a bad experience?? And if you died please send me a message!

What do you think? Would you give it a try?

Ready for the oven

Baking...

All Done.

Starter kit....

 All cooled.  

It looks yummy enough right??  I was thinking cool whip might be nice on top of it.....I'm waiting for my husband to get home from the gym see if he'll try it! 

Verdict is in I've tried it and it was yummy!