Autumn Apple Bread Recipes

APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and lightly coat an 8x4-inch loaf pan with baking spray. Set aside.
• Spread the walnuts in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet. Place in the oven and bake until toasted and fragrant, about 8 to 12 minutes, stirring once throughout. DO NOT WALK AWAY during the last few minutes and set a timer. Nuts love to burn the very moment you stop watching. Transfer to a cutting board. Once cool enough to handle, roughly chop and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the white whole wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the applesauce, canola oil, milk, sugar, egg, and vanilla until smooth.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, then add the wet ingredient all at once. Mix in by hand just until combined. The batter will look very thick and stiff.
• Fold in the apples and walnuts. It will be hard to do because the batter is so thick. Use a rubber spatula and smush and push it around gently but firmly as needed. Distribute the apples and walnuts as evenly as you can.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. With the back of a rubber spatula, press and smooth the top so it is mostly flat. For the cinnamon sugar topping, stir the cinnamon and coarse sugar together in a small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the top of the batter.
• Bake for 25 minutes, loosely tent with foil, then bake for 20 additional minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean without any wet batter clinging to it.* Place on a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy warm or at room temperature.

AUTUMN APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• 1. 1. Grease 2 9x5 loave pans, place wax paper to fit on the bottoms.
• 2. 2. In a large bowl combine apples with 2 cups sugar; set aside.
• 3. 3. Melt butter and allow to cool.
• 4. 4. In a bigger bowl sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and baking powder; set aside.
• 5. 5. With butter cooled, combine with apples,along with eggs and vanilla.
• 6. 6. Mix flour mixture with apple mixture. DO NOT OVER MIX.
• 7. 7. Divide batter among the 2 pans; sprinkle each with 1 tsp sugar.
• 8. 8. Bake in a preheated 325 oven F. 1 hr and 15 minutes to 1 hr and 30 minutes. Use tooth pick to test for doneness. Cool on wire rack 1 hr then remove from pans and cool completely. Wait 2-4 hours before slicing. Will remain at room temperature and wrapped in foil for 4 days, longer in refrigerator.

AUTUMN PEAR BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla; stir into the flour mixture just until moistened. Fold in pears., Spoon into 2 greased 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

AUTUMN PUMPKIN APPLE CIDER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In saucepan, boil cider until it's reduced to about 1/4 cup; let it cool.
• In bowl, whisk together well pumpkin purée, eggs, oil, brown sugar, zest, and cider.
• In bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, mace, cinnamon and cloves.
• Add the walnuts; stir batter just until combined.
• Pour batter to a well-buttered 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan.
• Bake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in the pan.