Apple Cinnamon Bread Recipe is moist, sweet and packed with fresh apples and cinnamon for perfect fall treat. Taste delicious and it’s like a cake just baked in a loaf pan. This easy fall baking recipe is super simple to throw together for bakers of any skill level.
Homemade bread is the best. Make sure to try my Lemon Blueberry Bread or Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, too.
Why You Will Love This easy Bread Recipe?
- Quick homemade bread recipe-comes together in no time with just the basic ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, milk)
- Full of fall flavors – fresh apples, brown sugar and cinnamon
- Easy recipe – bakers of any skill level can manage.
- Super moist- stay fresh for days (if it last that long)
- Great for breakfast, snacks, dessert or any get together (no holiday excuses needed)
Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread Overview:
- Basic Ingredients: For this recipe you will need all-purpose flour, sugar, light brown sugar, butter, milk, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and apples. That are all basic ingredients that you probably have on hand.
- Skill Level: Easy, beginner recipe. This Apple Bread recipe is easy to throw together by people with little to no cooking experience. This recipe is so simple to make but sure to be a hit for anyone that get a bite!
- Texture: This Cinnamon Apple Bread is like the cake baked in a loaf pan. It has very light texture. The bread is soft and the crumbs are super moist. It’s packed with apple chunks and cinnamon swirls. Apples and cinnamon sugar are layered in the pan instead of folding into the batter. If you fold apples in the batter, the bread will be too wet, instead of just being moist. Also for the dough batter is used granulated sugar. Brown sugar is just sprinkled in layers. If brown sugar is creamed in the batter it results in a heavy and dense texture. This way bread stays light, but has beautiful flavour from brown sugar.
- Flavour: The stars of the show are apples and cinnamon. Brown sugar, cinnamon and fresh apples make perfect fall flavour combo. Apples and cinnamon sugar is layered, but they sinks slightly while baking and dotted each slice perfectly. That makes perfect flavour punch in every single bite.
What are The Best Apples for Baking?
For most apple recipes it is the best to use firmer apples. The best baking apples keep their structure without turning into mush.
Granny Smith is my go-to baking apples. They are crisp and quite sour but there are a few others that hold up under heat.
Golden delicious could be good choice. They are sweet, with a rich, mellow flavor and maintain their shape after baking.
Also, I love baking with other sweet apples like Honey Crisp, Fuji, Gala and Pink Lady.
This recipe use only two apples, so use what you have on hand.
How to Make Cinnamon Apple Bread?
Grease 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with baking spray, line with parchment paper leaving large overhang the sides so you could easily lift the bread from the pan. Adjust the oven rack just below the center (to the lower third position) and preheat the oven to 350 F.
Mix ground cinnamon and brown sugar, and set aside.
Peel and dice apples in small chunks, set aside, too.
Beat room temperature butter with sugar and vanilla extract. Add eggs and mix to combine. Add mixture of dry ingredients (flour, salt and baking powder) and mix to combine. Slowly pour in milk and mix just to combine. Scrape down the bowl with rubber spatula to make sure there’s no lumps remain.
Toss apples with cinnamon and granulated sugar.
Spread half of the batter in prepared pan, scatter half of the apple mixture and sprinkle with one half of cinnamon sugar mixture. Spoon remaining batter and gently smooth the top. Scatter remaining apples and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
Bake in preheated oven about 55-70 minutes, or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. This is a heavy loaf full of apples, so if your bread takes longer, that’s OK. Just tent it with aluminium foil after 30-40 minutes to prevent the top from browning too much.
Remove from the oven and cool 20-30 minutes in the pan set on a cooling rack. Then using the paper overhangs lift the bread from the pan.
To make the glaze stir powdered sugar with milk and just a hint of vanilla. Drizzle when bread is cooled completely.
My recomandation
Finally, if you want an even more decadent version of apple crisp bread you can’t miss my favorite one – Apple Crisp Cheesecake Bread.
Also, if you love apple desserts, this Apple Cake will become your new favorite!
Apple Cinnamon Bread Recipe
Prep Time: 10 minutes- Cook Time: 55-70 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Category: Dessert/breakfast
Method: Bake
Cuisine: American
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Apple Cinnamon Bread Recipe is moist, sweet and packed with fresh apples and cinnamon for perfect fall treat. Taste delicious and it’s like a cake just baked in a loaf pan.
Ingredients
Cinnamon-sugar:
- 6 Tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Apples:
- 2 medium apples (Granny Smith, Gala…)-peeled and diced in 1/2 pieces
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Bread:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs-room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk
Glaze:
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Grease 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with baking spray, line with parchment paper leaving large overhang the sides so you could easily lift the bread from the pan. Adjust the oven rack just below the center (to the lower third position) and preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Mix ground cinnamon and brown sugar, and set aside.
- Peel and dice apples in small 1/2 inch chunks, set aside, too.
- Beat room temperature butter with sugar and vanilla extract. Add eggs and mix to combine. Add mixture of dry ingredients (flour, salt and baking powder) and mix to combine. Slowly pour in milk and mix just to combine. Scrape down the bowl with rubber spatula to make sure there’s no lumps remain.
- Toss apples with cinnamon and 2 Tablespoon granulated sugar sugar, set aside.
- Spread half of the batter in prepared pan, scatter half of the apple mixture and sprinkle with one half of cinnamon sugar mixture. Spoon remaining batter and gently smooth the top. Scatter remaining apples and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Bake in preheated oven about 55-70 minutes, or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. This is a heavy loaf full of apples, so if your bread takes longer, that’s OK. Just tent it with aluminium foil after 30-40 minutes to prevent the top from browning too much.
- Remove from the oven and cool 20-30 minutes in the pan set on a cooling rack. Then using the paper overhang lift the bread from the pan.
- To make the glaze stir powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Drizzle over cooled bread.
19 comments
Can you substitute almond flour for regular flour
I haven’t tried it with almond flour, so I can’t tell would it work,sorry.
Can you substitute almond flour for regular flour
I was wondering if any of your recipes include calories per slice and where I might find them?
Who cares just make it.
I want to make this and was wondering what the calories per serving are; i noticed many of your recipes do not supply this
Can I double the recipe and back in a bunt cake pan? Layer with apples first.
Baked this today, absolutely delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
This is a wonderful recipe. A bit time consuming to make but worth it. I used the Granny Smith apples as suggested. Very moist.
A few tips: I weighed the prepared batter to make sure I was putting exactly half into the pan for each layer.
I cut up each apple separately and divided the sugar/cinnamon mixture into two amounts to ensure each layer had the correct amount of the sweetened cinnamon apple mixture.
The cake should be very cool before adding the icing. I waited 1.5 hours and it seemed cool enough but the icing seeped right in and did not stay on top like the picture. But it still tasted delicious.
Have a question, will it freeze ok?
Thanks Donna. Glad to hear that!
Thanks for the tips!
Can you substitute for almond milk due to lactose intolerant?
Yum! This bread is delicious! It did need some extra cooking time as mentioned might be needed. Thanks for the recipe.
Just made this again for the second time. It is the best Apple Cinnamon bread recipe I have come across. It did not disappoint. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe for this delicious bread with us.
Thanks, Michelle!
Thank you for the recipe! Quick question.. is the batter normally super sticky? I had a fun time spreading it in the pan.
I made it a second time and it was SO much better and sweet enough without the icing! Also ditched the parchment paper.secomd time aroubd and greassed and floured a non stick loaf pan with a much better result. Delicious taste! 😋
My granddaughters love this bread! I just made it for the 7 th time! Tastes like apple pie! Delicious! Highly recommend!
This is such a great recipe!! Thank you!! Very dense and moist, my husband says this is my best dessert I’ve ever made!
In place of the icing, I bake the loaf with a little brown sugar, butter and cinnamon mixture on top and it caramelizes…. Incredible!
I’ve also made into muffins/cupcakes, I roughly mixed the apples, cake, and cinnamon sugar together before putting into a tin and baking for about 20 mins!
Thank you again!
Thanks Hannah!