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Apple Bread Recipe
Pull-apart apple bread is everything you can ask for in a sweet bread recipe. A soft and fluffy bread loaf that’s rolled out like cinnamon buns and topped with a generous portion of a vanilla butter spread, chunks or grated fresh apple and finished off with cinnamon sugar. The dough is cut and stacked like a pull-apart bread and topped with the best glaze. Your house is going to smell wonderful as the aromas of the apple bread fill the home. This smells just like Homemade Apple Pie!
The Best Apples for Apple Bread?
Most crisp-tart apples will work in this recipe. Granny Smith apples are our favorite for baking. Gala and Golden Delicious are also great choices. Avoid apples that soften easily, like McIntosh apples or Red Delicious.
Tips for How to Make Apple Bread:
Be sure the flour is measured out correctly. The milk should be warm for the yeast to activate and become foamy. Milk should be just warm to the touch. The dough should feel soft and not stick to your hands or mixing bowl. If your dough sticks to the bowl, add a few more tablespoons of flour, mixing well after the added flour. Mix the dough using a Kitchen Aid mixer with a dough hook or by hand. Butter MUST be room temp for easy spreading. When stacking the bread, stack loosely (it doesn’t have to look pretty)! The dough will rise again and fill in the extra space. Glaze Tip: For a glaze that penetrates into the bread, add glaze while the loaf is still warm. For a thicker glaze that will spread, add glaze once the loaf is completely cool.
How to Form Pull-Apart Bread:
Once the dough is made, forming the apple bread is as simple as making Cinnamon Rolls.
Roll out dough into a rectangle Generously spread the vanilla butter over the dough Add the apples (cubed or grated) over the butter and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar Cut dough into 5 long uniform strips Cut the strips into equal squares for easy stacking Stack dough and transfer to pan and bake bread
2 Ways to Layer Pull-Apart Bread:
The Best Pan for Apple Bread:
Your bread pans should be at least a 1 lb pan with dimensions of 9″x5″ and deep so the dough doesn’t overflow.
More Sweet Bread Recipes:
There’s nothing like pulling a warm sweet bread from the oven on a cool morning. The aroma of sweet bread recipes will fill your kitchen better than any scented candle.
Classic Pumpkin Bread – A favorite during the fall season Chocolate Chip Banana Bread – with melty morsels of chocolate Twisted Sweet Bread – with raspberry jam cream cheese filling Banana Bread – A classic that is moist and loaded Lemon Blueberry Loaf– So much flavor
What is your favorite way to enjoy apples? Let me know in a comment below! We are always looking for new ways to incorporate apples into recipes. 🙂
