This cozy recipe for Apple Pie Bread is the perfect way to bring in the season!
What better way to celebrate fall than with steaming mugs of cider, pumpkin spice lattes, and of course, a thick slice of this delicious bread. Apple bread is tender and moist with lots of sweet cinnamon flavor just like a piece of apple pie!
A Fall Bread You Need to Try
- Warm and spicy, sweet and simple to make, this recipe is a winner all the way around!
- Apple pie bread is like the bread version of an apple fritter with lots of cinnamon apple flavor, but it is quicker to prep with no deep fryer required!
- A slice of apple pie bread makes a perfect snack for a lunchbox surprise, a breakfast or even a special Sunday morning french toast.
- It can be made into a dessert with a dollop of whipped cream and a simple drizzle of Easy Caramel Sauce.
What’s in Apple Pie Bread?
APPLES The best apples for baking are tart and firm, crispy and crunchy. Granny Smith always fits the bill, but this recipe works well with a sweeter apple, too, like Honeycrisp or Fuji. Applesauce can be replaced with 1/2 cup butter for an even richer quickbread.
CINNAMON SUGAR Brown sugar and cinnamon are layered into the cake with apples, and also used for the tasty streusel topping. For something more complex tasting, try using Apple Pie Spice instead of plain cinnamon.
DAIRY Butter, eggs, and milk add rich flavor to the bread that makes it taste almost like a brioche, but much more crumbly with a cake-like texture.
ADD-INS In place of the applesauce, try adding leftover Cranberry Sauce or make an apple raisin bread. Mix in pumpkin puree in place of applesauce, either from a can or homemade. Try a mashed banana for a new take on an old fave. Shredded zucchini will taste great as well.
TOPPING Simple brown sugar and cinnamon make a delicious topping, especially when brushed with butter during baking. Add some chopped walnuts or pecans to the streusel for extra crunch, if desired. If you have leftover cinnamon sugar, you can use that too.
How to Make Apple Bread
The only machine needed for this quick bread recipe is a hand mixer. Just chop, mix, and bake:
- Peel & chop apples, prepare the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Cream butter & sugar, add other wet ingredients.
- Mix, then add dry ingredients to the wet mixture.
- Layer batter, apples, & topping in a bread pan.
- Bake as per recipe below.
Best Quick Bread Tips
- One of the best tips for fluffy quick bread is to be sure not to overmix the batter. It might seem wrong to not mix thoroughly—but for quickbread, it really works!
- When adding mix-ins, be sure that the substituted ingredient has the same basic texture/dryness/wetness as the original ingredient. Then add it in the same amount as the recipe calls for. Nobody likes bread to turn out tasting like pudding. (Unless making a delicious Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce, of course!)
Serve this bread with apple butter, cinnamon butter, pumpkin butter, or honey butter.
How to Store
Apple pie bread stores well. Wrap it carefully, or cover it in an airtight container and it will keep on the counter for two days. If it’s not all gone by then, move it to the refrigerator so the apples stay tasting fresh.
Apple bread can be frozen, simply seal the entire loaf in a zippered freezer bag, or wrap and freeze individual slices for a quick grab-and-go snack.
Delicious Apple Dessert Recipes
- Classic Apple Pie – easy to make
- Easy Apple Cake Recipe – perfect for the holidays
- Apple Crisp – freezer friendly
- Apple Cheesecake Pie – sweet & creamy
- Apple Hand Pies – ready in under 30 minutes
Did you make this Warm Apple Bread? Be sure to leave a rating and a comment below!
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ tablespoon cinnamon
- ⅔ cup brown sugar divided
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce note: you can use ½ cup butter and skip the applesauce if you prefer
- 2 eggs well beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 large apple (or 2 small), peeled and chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour an 8×4 loaf pan
- Combine cinnamon with ⅓ cup of the brown sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
- With mixer on medium, cream white sugar, remaining brown sugar and butter until fluffy. Mix in applesauce (if using), beaten eggs and vanilla.
- Stir together flour and baking powder. Add flour to egg mixture along with milk and stir just until combined. Do not overmix!
- Pour half of the batter into a greased and floured loaf pan. Sprinkle with ½ of the apples and ½ of the cinnamon mixture.
- Stir the remaining apples into the remaining batter and pour into the pan. Top with remaining cinnamon mixture.
- Bake approximately 40 minutes. Brush topping with melted butter. Continue baking an additional 5-10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool 10 minutes and remove from pan.
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Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American© SpendWithPennies.com. Content and photographs are copyright protected. Sharing of this recipe is both encouraged and appreciated. Copying and/or pasting full recipes to any social media is strictly prohibited. Please view my photo use policy here.
Originally published August, 2013
Adapted from Allrecipes
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This is delicious bread but after making it for the second time, I did not see where to add the vanilla extract listed in the ingredients and my bread is in the oven with the vanilla still in the counter. ♀️ I’m sure it goes in the mixture but I followed recipe and totally missed it.
The vanilla is added in step 3. Enjoy!
This apple pie bread is outstanding! Made it exactly to recipe but I incorporated the chopped apples throughout the dough. Extremely moist. Poured almost 1/4 c of melted butter after 40 minutes in baking. Will definitely make again and again!
I’m so glad you loved it Margaret!
This recipe was great! The website isn’t letting me click a rating, but I would choose 4 stars. The only thing was that I left the bread on my counter for a few days, and over time it began to taste weird. I was thinking maybe the apples were starting to go bad. I’m wondering if using lemon juice would solve this problem? Or maybe keeping it in the fridge, but I don’t want to dry out the bread.
I am making it again today and this time I’m also going to mix the apples into all of the batter instead of just the top half. The bottom half of my first loaf was dry without the apples. I think it would also be yummier if the bread had cinnamon mixed into it, instead of just in the middle and on top!
Glad to hear you love this bread Anna!
Can you bake this and then freeze it??
Yes it freezes well. I would cool completely and slice before freezing. You can take a couple of slices out as you like and defrost them on the counter or in the microwave.
Just made this with Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 G/F baking flour, not the G/F All purpose baking flour. It came out a bit dense, but still so YUMMY!!! I will definitely try again with G/F AP flour. This is a keeper, thanks.
This proved to be a great way to use up some apples. I didn’t have milk so I used Greek yogurt instead. The bread was very moist and yet cake-like in texture. It was very good and quite easy to make. Definitely a keeper.
My family and neighbors love this recipe hot right out of the oven, sometimes the kids love a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
I currently have this in the oven! So excited to try it. How would this do in mini loaves and what would the baking time be, anyone know?
This is absolutely yummy and I normally cannot stand cooked apples!!This yumminess is gone by the end of breakfast around here. It makes your house smell awesome while cooking, too.
I have made tbis girgeous cake twice now. It is absolutely gorgeoys! I just love apple and cinnamon tigether! I made it four times bigger yonight and am going t take some to groups i gi to amd im going to freeze the rwst so i dint eat it so quick! Its gorgeous warm as the title suggests definately now my most favourite cake! Not over sweet and thw topping is divine and sticky and crunchy!!!…..What more could you wish for???
I am so glad you liked this recipe Susanne!
It’s a complete blank where your ingredients should be.
Can you please write it- post it
Thank you
Want to make it, but your video is so fast & I don’t want to go though the trouble of guessing what & how much
I’m sorry, I’m not sure why they’re disappearing! I’ve updated it again and emailed my tech person to see if we can figure out why. Just in case, here they are:
½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
⅓ cup white sugar
⅔ cup brown sugar, divided
¼ cup butter, softened
¼ cup applesauce (note: you can use ½ cup butter and skip the applesauce if you prefer)
2 eggs, well beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
⅓ cup milk
1 large or 2 small apples, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon butter, melted
I pinned your apple pie recipe and today I chose to make this great recipe and only the directions show no ingredients! Why aren’t the ingredients showing? Thank you and disappointed, Donna
That is so strange, I have no idea where they went but I’ve updated the post and you should see them now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
There is no ingredients list.
Derectios how to put it all together & no what and how much.
Are supposed to just guess?
That is so strange, I have no idea where they went but I’ve updated the post and you should see them now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
This is my 5th times making ::::Warm Apple Pie Bread::::I’ve been serving it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and so many of my friends tasted it and they all wanted the recipe. Thank you Holly N. for this delicious recipe! I will keep making….
I’m so glad you loved it Gessie! Thank you for sharing with your friends!
I made this bread twice, once for home and once to bring to hair Salon .
It is a terrific recipe. I love that the recipe calls for Granny Smith apples as here in my area of Florida we have limited cooking apples but always the Grannies.
Thank so much for posting the recipe!!
This is a Five *, not sure if I scored it properly.
Happy to hear you really love it!
When I seen the name warm apple pie bread I thought to myself I wonder if it really tastes like apple pie? And to my surprise it did and it was delicious. Thank you for the recipe
You’re welcome!
I made a double batch of this this evening and am about to take it out of the oven. My kitchen smells like heaven!!! I can’t wait to taste it! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Mine is in tbe oven now!!.. I didn’t have a loaf pan or apple sauce, so I doubled the butter as suggested and did it in a bundt pan!. It smells great!
<3 likes this * You have a great recipes always and taste good ..thank you so much carmentsgalang
Can this be frozen to travel on an airplane?
This recipe does freeze well.