Apple Pie Bread | Cookies & Cups

This fast apple pie bread is full of cozy spice and topped with a crunchy nut streusel. Each chew is filled with candy shredded apples, similar to freshly baked apple pie!

For those who love this straightforward apple bread recipe, strive my pumpkin bread and autumn bread recipes, subsequent!

Why I Love This Fast Apple Pie Bread

Apple pie bread skips the homemade pie crust and packs all kinds of fall taste into a simple quick bread recipe as an alternative. Right here’s why I can’t get sufficient:

• Cozy fall flavors. This bread is gentle, moist, and bursting with candy fall apples, toasted nuts, and cinnamon spice. I add buttermilk for much more moisture, plus it provides a contact of tanginess such as you’ll discover in my buttermilk banana bread.
• Scrumptious crunch. I add a nutty streusel topping earlier than baking for much more taste and crunch. It provides this apple bread severe Dutch apple pie vibes!
• Fast and straightforward batter. The batter comes collectively in a single bowl and takes just some minutes to combine. As soon as it’s within the pan, the remainder is as much as your oven!

What You’ll Want

These are some notes on the elements on this fast apple pie bread. For a printable checklist with the total quantities, scroll right down to the recipe card!

• Butter – Salted or unsalted, at room temperature.
• Sugar – Common granulated sugar works right here, or you should utilize mild brown sugar.
• Buttermilk – I really like the trace of tang and added moisture that buttermilk brings to this bread. If I don’t have it within the fridge, I’ll make a simple do-it-yourself buttermilk substitute with lemon juice (or vinegar) and common milk.
• Baking Powder
• Eggs
• Vanilla – Make certain to make use of actual vanilla extract (or equal elements vanilla paste) for the perfect taste.
• Flour – The perfect flour for this apple pie bread is all-purpose flour. Bread flour doesn’t work in fast bread recipes.
• Apples – Any agency, sweet-tart baking apple that you simply’d use for apple pie filling will work right here. My favourite is Granny Smith. Different good choices are Honeycrisp and Braeburn apples. Peel the apples and shred them earlier than you begin.
• Add-ins – Non-compulsory, however I prefer to bake chopped walnuts and raisins into my apple pie bread for further texture and taste.

For the Streusel

• Brown Sugar – I like to make use of mild or darkish brown sugar within the topping. Granulated sugar will work, too.
• Flour
• Butter – I discover that butter is best to make right into a crumble when it’s chilly from the fridge.
• Nuts – Chopped walnuts or pecans are my favourite for this recipe.

The best way to Make Apple Pie Bread

Similar to banana bread and different fast bread recipes, there’s no yeast on this recipe so the batter comes collectively, nicely, rapidly! Right here’s a brief step-by-step. You’ll discover the printable directions within the recipe card.

• Make the streusel. Begin by slicing butter into brown sugar and flour to make a crumbly streusel, then fold within the nuts. 
• Make the batter. Subsequent, cream extra butter and sugar collectively in a separate bowl. Combine within the buttermilk, baking powder, eggs, and vanilla. Slowly combine within the flour.

• Add the apples. Lastly, stir in your shredded apples. Different mix-ins, like nuts and/or raisins can go in on the similar time.
• Add the streusel topping. Switch the bread batter to a lined loaf pan and sprinkle the nut streusel over high.
• Bake. Pop your apple pie bread into the oven for about an hour at 350ºF. I often let the bread settle down within the pan for a bit earlier than I transfer it out onto a wire rack. This apple pie bread is scrumptious when it’s nonetheless heat, or you may let it cool to room temperature (I love the self management!).

Recipe Ideas and Variations

• Line the pan. I like to make use of a strip of parchment to line the underside and each ends of my loaf pan. It makes it tremendous straightforward to elevate the bread out after it’s cooled off just a little. For those who don’t have parchment paper, give the pan a very good greasing with butter or shortening as an alternative.
• Don’t overmix. As with most baked items, overmixing fast bread batter gives you a dense, robust loaf that doesn’t rise the way in which it ought to. Watch out that you simply don’t overdo it when bringing the elements collectively.
• Make it nut-free. For those who’d want a nut-free streusel, substitute the nuts with fast oats such as you’d use within the crumble topping for an apple crisp. 
• Skip the streusel. You can even go away the streusel off altogether and provides your apple pie bread a ending sprinkle of cinnamon sugar like I do in my cinnamon apple bread.
• Add a glaze. Borrow the straightforward glaze from my apple fritter bread to drizzle over high. 

Serving Strategies

Apple pie bread a la mode, anybody? Slices of apple pie bread are scrumptious topped with a scoop of homemade ice cream for dessert. If I’m actually going all out, I’ll drizzle over apple cider caramel sauce or pumpkin spice caramel sauce. However actually, I’ll take pleasure in a slice of apple pie bread by itself any time of the day. It’s the right deal with to have within the morning with espresso or tea!

The best way to Retailer

This apple pie bread will be saved at room temperature for as much as 3 days, or you may wrap the loaf and freeze it for as much as 2 months. Thaw the bread at room temperature for serving.

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