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 full of candy shredded apples, similar to freshly baked apple pie!

When you love this simple 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 types of fall taste into a straightforward quick bread recipe as an alternative. Right here’s why I can’t get sufficient:

• Cozy fall flavors. This bread is comfortable, 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 offers this apple bread severe Dutch apple pie vibes!
• Fast and simple batter. The batter comes collectively in a single bowl and takes only a few 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 substances 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 use gentle brown sugar.
• Buttermilk – I 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 straightforward home made buttermilk substitute with lemon juice (or vinegar) and common milk.
• Baking Powder
• Eggs
• Vanilla – Ensure to make use of actual vanilla extract (or equal elements vanilla paste) for the very best taste.
• Flour – The most effective 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-obligatory, however I wish to bake chopped walnuts and raisins into my apple pie bread for additional texture and taste.

For the Streusel

• Brown Sugar – I like to make use of gentle 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.

Find out how to Make Apple Pie Bread

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

• Make the streusel. Begin by chopping 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 identical time.
• Add the streusel topping. Switch the bread batter to a lined loaf pan and sprinkle the nut streusel over prime.
• Bake. Pop your apple pie bread into the oven for about an hour at 350ºF. I normally let the bread calm 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 Suggestions 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 simple to raise the bread out after it’s cooled off somewhat. When you 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 provides you with a dense, powerful loaf that doesn’t rise the best way it ought to. Watch out that you simply don’t overdo it when bringing the substances collectively.
• Make it nut-free. When you’d choose 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 may also depart 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 simple glaze from my apple fritter bread to drizzle over prime. 

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 get pleasure from 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!

Find out how 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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