Apple Bread
Apple bread features fresh apple pieces, lots of brown sugar and cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, applesauce, vanilla bean paste, and pecans. This brunch treat is topped with brown sugar and cinnamon before being baked in a hot oven. The delicious apple bread is brushed with melted butter, sprinkled with finely chopped pecans and drizzled with apple glaze.
Ingredients
Apples:
- 180 grams apple (1-1/2 cups), peeled, cored and diced
- 36 grams light brown sugar (3 tablespoons)
- 1 gram ground cinnamon (1/2 teaspoon)
Apple Bread:
- 244 grams all-purpose flour (1-3/4 cups)
- 3 grams kosher salt (1/2 teaspoon)
- 8 grams baking powder (1-1/2 teaspoons)
- 3 grams baking soda (1/2 teaspoon)
- 3 grams ground cinnamon (1 teaspoon)
- 1 gram ground nutmeg (1/4 teaspoon)
- 113 grams unsalted butter (1/2 cup), room temperature
- 67 grams granulated sugar (1/3 cup)
- 67 grams light brown sugar (1/3 cup)
- 100 grams egg (2 large), room temperature
- 80 grams unsweetened applesauce (1/3 cup)
- 80 grams milk (1/3 cup)
- 5 grams vanilla bean paste or extract (1 teaspoon)
- 50 grams pecans (1/2 cup), roughly chopped
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Topping:
- 12 grams light brown sugar (1 tablespoon)
- 1 gram ground cinnamon (1/4 teaspoon)
Butter Pecan Topping:
- 14 grams unsalted butter (1 tablespoon), melted
- 25 grams pecans (1/4 cup), finely chopped
Apple Glaze:
- 30 grams powdered sugar (1/4 cup)
- 15 grams unsweetened applesauce (1 tablespoon)
- 30 grams heavy cream or milk (2 tablespoons)
Instructions
Apples:
- Add diced apples, light brown sugar, and ground cinnamon to small bowl. Toss to combine. Set aside.
Apple Bread:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 X 5-inch bread loaf pan.
- Add all-purpose flour, kosher salt, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg to small mixing bowl. Whisk to combine. Set aside.
- Add unsalted butter to stand mixer. Beat on medium for 2 minutes.
- Add sugar and light brown sugar. Beat on medium for 2 minutes.
- Add eggs and beat on low until incorporated, about 30 seconds.
- Add vanilla bean paste, applesauce, and milk to stand mixer. Beat on low until incorporated, about 30 seconds.
- Remove bowl from stand mixer. Gradually add flour mixture and fold in with large spatula.
- Fold in reserved apples.
- Transfer batter to prepared loaf pan and smooth evenly with offset spatula.
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Topping:
- Add brown sugar and ground cinnamon to small bowl. Stir to combine. Sprinkle over apple bread batter.
- Bake bread in preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until firm to the touch, and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool bread in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert pan and remove bread. Cool completely.
Butter Pecan Topping:
- Brush top of cooled apple bread loaf with melted butter. Sprinkle finely chopped pecans over melted butter. Press lightly to adhere.
Apple Glaze:
- Add powdered sugar, applesauce and heavy cream to small bowl. Stir to combine. Add extra drops of heavy cream if glaze is too thin. Drizzle over apple bread.
- Serve individual slices at room temperature.
- Store bread in foil at room temperature for 1 day, or refrigerate for several days.