This recipe for Apple Cinnamon Bread produces a fast bread that’s gentle, tender, and bursting with recent apples! Completed with a buttery oat streusel, this apple bread is irresistibly good.
Loaded with tender apples and warming spices, this Apple Bread shouldn’t be solely scrumptious, however deceptively good for you as properly.
Identical to my recipes for Baked Apples, Apple Crisp, and Dutch Apple Pie, this Apple Cinnamon Bread combines warming spices, recent apples, and a buttery oat streusel for the last word mixture of each taste and texture. Not like my apple dessert recipes, this recipe is made with 100% entire wheat flour, solely a TINY little bit of refined sugar, and means much less butter!
However you’d by no means realize it by the style or texture! This Apple Bread is gentle, tender, and completely candy. Paired with a cup of mulled apple cider, this apple cinnamon bread is ideal for breakfast, celebrating fall, or simply curling up on the sofa with a blanket and a book–now, would not that sound like an ideal afternoon?!
Notes on Elements
- Flour: To maintain this apple bread 100% entire grain, use both entire wheat flour or entire white wheat flour. Entire white wheat flour will end in lighter bread, however I usually use entire wheat flour as that’s what I’ve readily available. You should use all-purpose flour, however you’ll sacrifice the entire grains.
- Apples: I like to recommend utilizing Granny Smith apples for this apple fast bread, because the tartness pairs properly with the candy crumble. Nevertheless, you should utilize any apple that’s appropriate for baking, equivalent to Pink Woman, Honeycrisp, or Braeburn.
- Honey: Use both honey or maple syrup to sweeten the batter for the apple bread.
- Buttermilk: The acidity within the buttermilk helps to maintain this entire wheat fast bread tremendous gentle and tender. If you do not have buttermilk readily available, you may make your individual by combing vinegar or lemon juice with milk or non-dairy milk of your alternative. The recipe card consists of directions for making home made buttermilk.
- Spices: This recipe requires cinnamon and nutmeg. Do your self a favor–grate a complete nutmeg bulb utilizing a Microplane, it can style SO a lot better than floor nutmeg that may overwhelm a recipe.
- Applesauce: Including applesauce the batter will assist maintain to chop again on the quantity of fats added, but nonetheless maintain the fast bread tremendous tender and moist. Use unsweetened applesauce to regulate the added sugars on this recipe.
- Melted Butter: Utilizing melted butter within the fast bread will produce a wealthy, buttery taste. Instead of the butter you might use canola oil.
- Oat Streusel: The streusel topping on this apple bread is totally non-obligatory, but provides a beautiful texture and taste. It’s made with entire wheat flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, and butter.
How you can Make Apple Fast Bread
Do not be intimidated by the variety of steps on this recipe. Identical to the title implies, this recipe comes collectively rapidly.
- Wash, dry, and peel the apples. As soon as peeled, cube the apples into ½-inch cubes.
- In a big mixing bowl, whisk or sift collectively the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Make sure to totally combine your dry components collectively in order that you do not chew into a bit of baking soda.
- Add the apples to the flour combination and toss to coat. Coating the apples with flour will assist them to not sink to the underside of your loaf pan, guaranteeing each chew will probably be equally scrumptious.
- In a smaller bowl, whisk collectively the eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, honey, applesauce, and vanilla extract.
- Add the moist components to the flour combination and use a spatula to fold the batter collectively. Combine till the flour is totally moistened and the components are properly mixed. However do not overmix as that will end in robust bread.
- In a separate small bowl, mix the components for the oat streusel, utilizing your fingers to combine collectively till every part is good and crumbly.
- Pour the batter right into a loaf pan that has been greased properly with butter or lined with parchment paper.
- Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly over the apple bread batter.
- Bake the apple bread till a toothpick comes out dry, this may take between 50-55 minutes. Whereas the bread is baking, take a second to benefit from the aroma of apples and cinnamon wafting by the air. FABULOUS!
- As soon as the bread is baked, take away it from the oven and place it on a baking rack to chill.
- After 10 minutes, fastidiously take away the apple bread from the pan and permit to chill totally. As soon as totally cooled, slice and serve.
Recipe Modifications
- Dairy-Free: Instead of the butter within the fast bread, use canola oil and rather than the buttermilk use my instructions for home made buttermilk within the recipe card utilizing non-dairy milk. For the streusel, use your favourite non-dairy butter, simply be sure you test on the bread after 40 minutes of baking. You might discover that your streusel is browning too rapidly and have to tent the bread calmly with foil.
- Add nuts: If desired, add ¼ cup of chopped walnuts to the batter of this apple bread while you add within the diced apples.
- Gluten-Free: I’ve made this fast bread and streusel utilizing a 1:1 all-purpose gluten-free flour with success. Simply make sure that your oats are licensed gluten-free as properly.
- No Streusel: To maintain this Apple Bread 100% refined sugar free, omit the oat streusel. The bread will probably be lots scrumptious.
Storage Directions
As a result of this Apple Cinnamon Bread is made with entire grains and no preservatives, it ought to be saved, as soon as cooled, in an hermetic container within the fridge, not at room temperature. It is going to final 4-5 days refrigerated.
Alternatively, you’ll be able to freeze the Apple Bread for as much as 3 months. Permit the bread to chill totally as soon as baked, wrap in a layer of plastic wrap, adopted by a layer of foil, after which place right into a freezer-safe bag or container. Retailer within the freezer for as much as 3 months and defrost in a single day within the fridge.
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Apple Cinnamon Bread
This recipe for Entire Wheat Apple Cinnamon Bread produces a fast bread that’s gentle, tender, and bursting with recent apples! Completed with a buttery oat streusel, this apple bread is irresistibly good.
Servings: 12
Energy: 194kcal
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Directions
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Preheat the oven to 350 levels F and grease a 9×5 loaf pan with butter or line with parchment paper.
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Wash peel, and core the apples. Minimize into ½-inch cubes.
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In a big mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg collectively. Add the diced apples and toss to coat the apples within the flour.
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In a separate mixing bowl whisk collectively the buttermilk, applesauce, eggs, honey, melted butter, and vanilla till properly mixed. Add to the dry components and fold collectively till simply mixed and the flour is totally moistened. Do not overmix to stop a tricky apple loaf.
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Pour the apple bread batter into the ready baking pan, spreading it out to evenly cowl.
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If including the streusel, combine collectively the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter with a fork or your fingers till crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over the apple bread batter.
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Bake for 50-55 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clear.
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Cool the apple bread within the pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes after which fastidiously take away the bread out of the pan to chill totally earlier than slicing or storing.
Notes
Storage: Retailer the cooled apple bread in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days within the fridge. Alternatively, wrap in plastic wrap and foil and retailer within the freezer for as much as 3 months. Defrost in a single day within the fridge.Â
Vitamin
Energy: 194kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 4g | Fats: 7g | Saturated Fats: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 2g | Trans Fats: 0.2g | Ldl cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 163mg | Potassium: 188mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 245IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg
This recipe was posted initially in 2015 however was up to date with new suggestions and pictures in 2022.
