Amish Friendship Bread variations

Happy Fall, Y'all

     In response to a reader's request, here are some variations I found that can be used once you've made the basic starter recipe.  Have fun trying these out, and if any of you know of other interesting variations, please comment back and share!!

Chocolate Bread: Use the basic mix recipe except use Chocolate Pudding instead of Vanilla.  Make sure to add the 2 tsp cinnamon it really makes the bread taste the best.

Peanut Butter Cup:Using the basic mix recipe, substitute Chocolate pudding instead of Vanilla. Omit the 2 tsp cinnamon in the batter. Add 4 Tablespoons creamy peanut butter to the batter and one bag peanut butter chips.

Cinnamon Struesel:Before starting the Amish bread,  get  pans ready and make the streusel:

 1 stick butter or margarine at room temp. 2/3 C – 1 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 C – 1 cup flour cinnamon - as much as you like
Put the ingredients together. (1 C chopped pecans are optional.) This will make approx. 2 cups. If you like a little more, increase the sugar and flour to 1C each.
Make your Amish bread according to directions. Use French Vanilla pudding or Vanilla Pudding. Put approx. 1-1/2 C batter in the bottom of each pan and spread into the corners. (Batter will not be runny - sort of a heavy batter.) Top with 1/2 C streusel, remaining batter and remaining streusel.

Banana Nut Bread:Use the basic mix with 1 cup of walnuts or pecans , 2 large mashed bananas in addition to the box of vanilla pudding.

Lemon Bread:Substitute lemon pudding mix and use 2 tsp lemon extract instead of vanilla, omit the cinnamon and nuts. Try adding poppy seeds for Lemon Poppy Seed Bread!

Butterscotch Bread:
Add 1 large box of butterscotch pudding and 1 1/2 cups of butterscotch chips. Omit cinnamon.
Proceed with recipe.

Apple Cinnamon Bread:Make the streusel 1 stick butter or margarine at room temp. 2/3 C – 1 cup packed brown sugar2/3 C – 1 cup flour cinnamon - as much as you like Put the ingredients together. (1 C chopped pecans are optional.) This will make approx. 2 cups. If you like a little more, increase the sugar and flour to 1C each. Make your Amish bread according to directions. Use Vanilla or French Vanilla pudding. Put approx. 1-1/2 C batter in the bottom of each pan and spread into the corners. (Batter will not be runny - sort of a heavy batter.) Add 1 can apple pie filling evenly throughout the each loaf. Top each loaf with reamaing batter and the Add streusel topping last, bake as directed.