“Easy moist apple fritter bread recipe with gooey swirls of cinnamon apples and drizzled with glaze”
My husband and I LOOOOOVE anything apple fritterish! After making apple fritter coffee cake and apple fritter bites it was time to tackle ooooh yeaaaaah…. apple fritter bread baby. Bow-chicka-wow wow!!!
We’ve been having a string of wonderful fall-like weather in North Carolina and something about a crisp, breezy day makes me want to clean and BAKE BAKE BAKE!!!
Hubby and I went into the kitchen to test out a few apple fritter bread recipes and we settled on one we found on the bakingchocolatenessta.com!
It’s an amazing recipe but we decided to add in a few tweaks like throwing in some cinnamon apple sauce, increasing the fresh apples, butter, vanilla, baking powder and using some good old fashioned buttermilk.
It was such a fun day of testing out recipes. My husband usually stays away when I’m tweaking recipes but he actually enjoyed pretending to be in America’s Test Kitchen with me.
You guys are going to love how easy this apple fritter bread is and the texture is…epic! It’s sorta dense like a pound cake yet so doggone moist and tender. If you’re the type of person who likes to bake and give away quick breads as gifts this is the one!!!
It’s lightly sweetened (believe it or not) with gooey, sweet apple cinnamon swirls and a crisp apple fritter crust. It’s heavenly good and pairs well with coffee.
This apple fritter bread lasted approximately 18 hours in our house. Not surprising at all really. It will definitely be in my fall & winter baking rotation!
Watch me make this apple fritter bread from start to finished!
Apple Fritter Bread
Ingredients
- 3 apples peeled, cored and finely diced (I used granny smith and gala)
- 2/3 cup light brown sugar packed
- 3 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon divided
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons butter thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons heavy cream may need more
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 F.
- Grease and flour a loaf pan. Set aside.
- Mix together brown sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
- Sprinkle apples with 3 teaspoons of cinnamon sugar mixture. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream together butter and granulated sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla extract.
- Fold in applesauce.
- In a separate bowl stir together flour and baking powder.
- Add flour mixture to the wet mixture JUST until combined.
- Stir in buttermilk. (Batter will and should be slightly lumpy. Do not over stir)
- Place half of the batter evenly into the loaf pan.
- Spread on half of the apple mixture.
- Sprinkle some cinnamon-sugar mixture over apples evenly just enough to cover. (FYI: You will have plenty of cinnamon-sugar mixture left over. Save it for another loaf)
- Press apples into batter very slightly.
- Lay a few pieces of thinly sliced butter on top.
- Repeat layers. Remember to press the apples gently into the batter very slightly. (Sometimes I like to gently glide a knife down through the batter to blend the layers a bit.)
- Bake on middle rack for 50-60 minutes.
- Let loaf rest in pan for about 15 minutes before removing from pan to let cool off completely on a cooling rack.
- While loaf is cooling combine powdered sugar with heavy cream until it is a glaze consistency.
- Drizzle glaze over completely cooled bread and let the glaze sit to firm up.
- Slice and serve!
Video
Is this sweetened or unsweetened apple sauce?
I have made this several times. My family loves it. This time I did not have the applesauce and replaced it with mashed bananas. It was just as good.
I really want to make this is it okay to use self rising flour?
Wonder if I could add just a little more flour so I can spoon this on a cookie sheet? My husband loves to buy Apple Fritters at the donut shop. In fact that is all he will order for himself at the Shop.
The recipe oops so good. I make so many different types of bread, so I thought I would make what he likes.
I wonder that Too. And make sure glaze is thin enough to dip in. Omg my favorite!!!!!
I was able to make 3 mini loaves and gave them as gifts. It is very delicious and moist! Not too sweet either. I am going to be making this again for Christmas. Thank you very much for the recipe!
Hi Diva its Patricia again. Girlfriend
I baked this recipe yesterday and I tell you it was the bomb. It was actually my first time ever eating
What size loaf pan. I gotta make this soon!!
Oh dear lord that looks amazing.
I love this bread I want to give mini loafs to my club members. How many mini loafs can I get out of one recipe. I use so many of your recipes. This is one of my favorites. Thank you
OMG, i am so making this……you are amazing
You transitioned that into something amazing. Can’t wait to try this.
i made this last evening, and OMG.. it is good, and i added a little more cinnamon, but i LOVE this recipe
This is just the cutest video! Fun watching your family cook. Both boys are adorable and little Ethan had so much fun in the kitchen! I can’t wait to try this. It looks delicious!
For this recipe did you use unsalted butter?
This recipe like all others I have tried was amazing. I made it once for my family and now I get request for it over and over again. It was very easy to make viewing the video or not.
Monique you and hubby 🙂 have out done yourselves. I made this recipe today with my daughter and let’s just say I WILL be making this again. Thanksgiving will be fabulous with this in my rotation. I made the recipe as listed and was able to make 3 mini loaves. I plan to make this again for church members for Thanksgiving. Super moist and not super sweet at all.
Delicious, moist, easy to make. Turned out awesome. Five Stars all the way! Not sure why the person above rated it low. (I would definitely reduce the brown sugar for sprinkling, but the recipe truly is a five star, don’t be discouraged to try it out).
Oh my goodness! This Apple Fritter Bread looks amazing! I can’t wait to try to make it today (and I enjoyed the video ). Thanks so much for sharing!
I love this recipe I gotta try it
Oh – I see a couple pounds on me already!! Why did I find this place with all these yummy goodies to make? Love this site…
I will be trying this one soon as I too love apples and to bake when the cool weather comes in. This looks sooooo good! Love the video and pictures and such a happy family you have….everyone cooking..lol
Perfect way to usher in my absolutely favorite season! Recipe was on point. Thank you!!!!
Looks so tempting.. The soft texture, the ingredients & the aroma, I could sense all of them 😛 Well, will surely share my review when i make it 🙂
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how do you rate a recipe you haven’t even tried, three stars based on what???