Yummy & Easy Friendship Bread

Friendship Bread

2 cups softened butter

4 cups white sugar

2 eggs

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 cups buttermilk (or 2 cups milk plus

2 Tbs. lemon juice)

2/3 cups white sugar mixed with

2 tsp. cinnamon

Mix butter, sugar and eggs. Stir in flour, baking soda, and buttermilk. Grease two bread pans or 5 small (3” x 2”) cake pans. Sprinkle 1/4 cup cinnamon-sugar evenly over the pans. Divide the remaining batter between the pans then top with the remaining cinnamon-sugar . Use a butter knife to swirl the cinnamon into the batter. Bake at 350°. for one hour (bread pans) or 35 minutes (cake pans) or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool before eating.