This fast apple pie bread is stuffed with cozy spice and topped with a crunchy nut streusel. Each chunk is full of candy shredded apples, similar to freshly baked apple pie!
Should you love this straightforward apple bread recipe, attempt 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 simple quick bread recipe as a substitute. Right here’s why I can’t get sufficient:
Cozy fall flavors. This bread is tender, 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 remaining is as much as your oven!
What You’ll Want
These are some notes on the components on this fast apple pie bread. For a printable listing 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 need to 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 simple do-it-yourself buttermilk substitute with lemon juice (or vinegar) and common milk.
Vanilla – Ensure that to make use of actual vanilla extract (or equal elements vanilla paste) for the most effective 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 just’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 – Optionally available, however I prefer 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.
The right 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, effectively, shortly! Right here’s a brief step-by-step. You’ll discover the printable directions within the recipe card.
Make the streusel topping.Mix the batter components.
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.
Fold within the apples and nuts.Fill the pan and bake!
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 high.
Bake. Pop your apple pie bread into the oven for about an hour at 350ºF. I normally let the bread quiet 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 possibly can 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 carry the bread out after it’s cooled off a bit. Should you don’t have parchment paper, give the pan a very good greasing with butter or shortening as a substitute.
Don’t overmix. As with most baked items, overmixing fast bread batter provides you with a dense, powerful loaf that doesn’t rise the way in which it ought to. Watch out that you just don’t overdo it when bringing the components collectively.
Make it nut-free. Should 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 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 simple glaze from my apple fritter bread to drizzle over high.
Serving Recommendations
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 proper deal with to have within the morning with espresso or tea!
The right way to Retailer
This apple pie bread will be saved at room temperature for as much as 3 days, or you possibly can wrap the loaf and freeze it for as much as 2 months. Thaw the bread at room temperature for serving.
This fast apple pie bread has all the comfortable flavors of contemporary apple pie baked right into a tender and moist loaf topped with a crunchy nut streusel. Each chunk is full of spiced shredded apples!
Streusel Nut Topping
1/4 cup packed gentle brown sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
For the Bread
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 giant eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cups shredded, peeled Granny Smith apples (about 4 medium)
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1/2 cup raisins (non-obligatory)
Prep the Streusel Topping: In a small bowl, mix brown sugar and flour. Utilizing a pastry blender or fork, lower within the butter till the combination resembles coarse crumbs. Stir within the walnuts or pecans. Put aside.
For the Bread: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan. Line the pan with a strip of parchment paper fitted to the underside and up the 2 ends of the pan. This can make the bread straightforward to take away. Put aside.
Within the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine the butter and sugar on medium velocity for 1 minute. Add within the buttermilk, baking powder, eggs, and vanilla extract, mixing till clean and mixed, scraping the edges of the bowl as crucial. Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour, mixing till simply mixed. Stir within the apples, nuts, and raisins.
Unfold the batter into the ready pan. Sprinkle streusel topping evenly on high of the batter.
Bake for 60 to 65 minutes till the middle is about and a toothpick inserted close to the middle comes out clear.
Cool within the pan on a wire rack for quarter-hour after which take away from the pan. Cool fully on the wire rack.
Serve heat or at room temperature OR wrap and retailer in a single day earlier than slicing.
Notes
Retailer hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3 days. Freeze hermetic for as much as 2 months for greatest freshness. Thaw at room temperature.
