Cinnamon Apple Bread
This cinnamon apple bread is rich and moist with a cinnamon crumb topping & lots of warm fall spices. It's a delicious quick bread to make and serve for breakfast or dessert!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 14 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ cup salted butter (melted)
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cup apples (finely diced)
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- Pinch sea salt
- ¼ cup salted butter (softened)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2
Line a 9x5” loaf pan with parchment paper and lightly grease, set aside.
- 3
In a small bowl, combine flour brown sugar, cinnamon and sea salt.
- 4
Cut in butter with a fork, pastry cutter, or your hands until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
- 5
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt, cinnamon and nutmeg, set aside.
- 6
In a large glass bowl, melt the butter.
- 7
Whisk in brown sugar, granulated sugar, applesauce, milk, eggs and vanilla until smooth.
- 8
Add dry ingredients and stir until combine.
- 9
Gently fold in the finely diced apples.
- 10
Spread batter evenly into the bottom of the prepared loaf pan.
- 11
Sprinkle the crumb topping evenly over the bread, then gently press it down with your hands or a spatula.
- 12
Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until the bread is set and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- 13
Let the apple bread cool in the loaf pan completely (about 3 hours) before removing and transferring to a serving plate.
- 14
Slice with a sharp knife and serve.