Description
A quick and easy cinnamon apple bread recipe that layers fresh chopped apples and cinnamon sugar throughout tender, buttery bread. Perfect for breakfast, snack, or dessert.
Ingredients
For the Bread:
- 1/2 cup butter (soft, not melted)
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ cups flour
- 1¾ teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
For the Apple Layer:
- 1 big apple, peeled and chopped (about 1½ cups)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
Step 1: Get Everything Ready Heat your oven to 350°F and grease that loaf pan really well. I learned the hard way that skimping on the grease means your beautiful bread sticks to the pan.
Step 2: Mix Your Cinnamon Sugar Stir the brown sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl. This is going to create those amazing gooey layers.
Step 3: Prep the Apples Peel and chop your apple into chunks about the size of your pinky nail. Too big and they sink, too small and you won’t taste them.
Step 4: Make the Base Beat the butter and sugar together until it looks fluffy – takes about 4 minutes with my hand mixer. Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla.
Step 5: Add Dry Stuff Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in another bowl first. Add this to your butter mixture along with the milk, mixing just until you can’t see flour streaks anymore.
Step 6: Layer It Up This is the fun part! Half the batter goes in the pan, then half the apples, then half the cinnamon sugar. Repeat with everything else.
Step 7: Bake 50 minutes at 350°F, but start checking with a toothpick at 45 minutes. Done when the toothpick has just a few crumbs on it.
Step 8: Wait (The Hard Part) Let it cool completely in the pan. I know it smells incredible but hot bread crumbles when you slice it.
Notes
Get your eggs and butter out like half an hour before you want to start baking so they’re not cold. If you’re like me and always forget to do this, stick the eggs in a bowl of warm water for five minutes and zap the butter in the microwave for maybe ten seconds. Don’t go longer or you’ll melt it.
Once you add the flour, just stir until you can’t see white streaks anymore and then stop. My first three loaves were tough as shoe leather because I thought more stirring meant better bread. Totally wrong.
If the top starts looking too brown before your timer goes off, just throw some foil over it for the last bit. I burned the top of an otherwise perfect loaf doing this and Dave still brings it up when he wants to tease me about my baking.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American