Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread
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Do You Love Apple Fritter Bread?
Have you ever had an apple fritter transformed into fluffy, buttery, white cake loaf with chunks of juicy apples and layers of brown sugar and cinnamon swirled inside and on top?
Drizzle with some old-fashioned creme glaze and devour with this Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread!
Fall is the time of year when the scent of apples fills the air, and no other dessert captures this seasonal flavor quite like the classic country apple fritter bread. With a few simple ingredients and some basic baking know-how, you’ll soon be serving up delicious slices of this awesome country apple fritter bread.
If You Bake This, You’ll Get *Lots of Drooling and Lots of Happy Smiles*
We all love a sweet and comforting treat, and what could be better than a delicious apple fritter quick bread? This flavorful and easy to make recipe will have you baking up a delicious treat in no time. Packed with hearty apples and sweet cinnamon, this bread is the perfect breakfast or snack.
What’s nice about making this Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread is, you don’t have to be an expert baker either. All you need is a 9×5 loaf pan to bake it in and it only takes 20 minutes or so to prepare and 60 minutes to bake.
Ingredients you Need for Our Easy Apple Fritter Bread Recipe
My all-time best tip is to not overmix quick breads. If you want more tips, check out these “Secret” Baking Tips for Quick Breads!
Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture
Apple Bread Loaf Recipe
- softened butter
- granulated sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour or gluten-free flour
- baking powder
- milk of choice
Chopped Apple Mixture
- 2 large apples any kind, peeled and chopped or slice them small, but not fine. *(I like using Granny Smith apples or Honeycrisp)
- granulated sugar
- cinnamon
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
- powdered sugar
- milk or cream
See Recipe Notes for more substitutions and tips.
How to Make Apple Fritter Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a 9×5-inch loaf pan and spray with non-stick spray, parchment paper or line with foil and spray with non-stick spray to get out easily for slicing.
Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture
- Mix ⅓ cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon together in a bowl. Set aside.
Apple Bread Loaf Recipe
- Combine & whisk flour and baking powder together in another bowl and set aside.
- In another medium-sized bowl, beat ⅔ cup granulated sugar and ½ cup softened butter together using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time until blended. Add in vanilla extract and mix in.
- Add the flour mixture into creamed butter mixture and mix until blended.
- Stir in ½ cup milk into batter and continue mixing until smooth. Make the chopped apple mixture.
Chopped Apple Mixture
- Toss chopped apples with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl. Get ready for layering.
Layering Cinnamon Sugar mixture, Apples and Bread batter
- Pour half the apple bread batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread out, then top with half the chopped apple mixture.
- Next, sprinkle ½ of the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture. Get ready to repeat layers.
- Repeat Layer: Pour the remaining batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread out, then top with the remaining apples mixture.
- Next, sprinkle the remaining brown sugar/cinnamon mixture on top.
- Use a knife and swirl through the mixture a few times.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, approximately 60 minutes.
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
- To make glaze, in a small bowl, mix ½ cup powdered sugar and 1 to 3 tablespoons milk or cream together until well mixed. (Place mixture in microwave for 10 seconds to get it pourable if it needs a boost.)
- Let loaf rest in pan for about 15 minutes before removing from pan to let cool off completely on a cooling rack. Drizzle with glaze.
- If you want more glaze, make a double batch.
How Do I Store Apple Fritter Bread?
- Store bread at room temperature for up to 4 days in airtight container. Slice as needed and for an extra yummy treat, place in the microwave for 10-20 seconds for a warm apple fritter bread delight!
Can I Freeze Apple Fritter Bread?
- Yes! Once baked & cooled, wrap in saran wrap or store in a freezer safe container or bag for up to 3 months. Freeze the loaf whole or cut it into slices to freeze it in individual portions. I would glaze after it’s thawed out overnight in the fridge, so it’s not as sticky.
More Inspiration to Bake More Quick Breads!
- Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Pound Cake Loaf
- Lemon Limoncello Cake Loaf
- Country Cinnamon Swirl Buttermilk Loaf
- Easy Double Chocolate Banana Bread
- Perfect Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread
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Awesome Country Apple Fritter Bread
Ingredients
Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Apple Bread Loaf Recipe
- ½ cup butter softened
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup milk or almond milk room temp
Chopped Apple Mixture
- 2 large apples like Granny Smith, peeled and chopped small, but not fine.
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1-3 tablespoons of milk or cream depending on thickness of glaze wanted. For more apple fritter style like the apple fritter donut- use more milk for a thinner glaze that you can pour over the whole loaf.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a 9x5-inch loaf pan and spray with non-stick cooking spray, can also line with foil or parchment paper to get out easily for slicing and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture
- Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon together in a bowl. Set aside.
Apple Bread Loaf Recipe
- Combine & whisk 1 & 1/2 cups flour and 1 & 3/4 teaspoons baking powder together in another bowl and set aside.
- In another medium-sized bowl, beat 2/3 cup granulated sugar and 1/2 cup softened butter together using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in 2 eggs, one at a time until blended into the butter/sugar mixture; add in 1 & 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract and mix in.
- Add the flour mixture into creamed butter mixture and mix until blended.
- Mix 1/2 cup milk into batter and continue mixing until smooth.
Chopped Apple Mixture
- Toss chopped apples with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl. Get ready for layering.
Assembling the Apple Fritter Layers
- Pour half the apple bread batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread out, then top with half the chopped apple mix.
- Sprinkle 1/2 of the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture on top. Get ready to repeat layers.
- Repeat Layer: Pour the remaining apple bread batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread out, then top with the remaining chopped apple mixture.
- Next, sprinkle the remaining brown sugar/cinnamon mixture on top.
- Use a knife and swirl through the mixture a few times.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, approximately 60 minutes.
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
- To make glaze, mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 to 3 tablespoons milk or cream together until well mixed. (Place mixture in microwave for 10 seconds to get it pourable if it needs a boost.)
- Let loaf rest in pan for about 15 minutes before removing from pan to let cool off completely on a cooling rack. Drizzle with glaze.
- If you want more glaze, make a double batch. 🙂
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Notes
- For a more apple fritter style like the apple fritter donut, pour glaze on top of apple fritter cake, while it's still warm/hot.
- For a super double glaze: Use 3 tablespoons milk for a thinner glaze that you can pour and drench over the whole loaf and then make another batch again, using 1 tablespoon milk and then drizzle on top of the first glaze.
- I've also substituted this with 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt, 1/3 cup milk of choice and add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda instead of 1/2 cup milk as called out in the bread loaf ingredients.
- Vegan: Use flax eggs, earth balance and almond milk.
- Bake 30-40 min. for 2 loaf recipe (2 8x4 pans)
- 15-20 minutes for muffins
- 50 -60 minutes for one full loaf recipe (9x5 pan)
Crock Pot Express Lovers!!
Here’s some tips from my baking co-worker & friend Gerri Ruiz, if you want to use your Crock Pot Express to make this bread!
- Layer in the opposite direction. Start with the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture by placing in a greased 6 cup Bundt pan.
- Put 1 cup water in pot and set the the Bundt pan on trivet.
- Close lid and close steam knob.
- Set for 40 minutes on “Dessert” function or if manual, set on low pressure . Use the the Quick Pressure Release to release.
- Lift out with retriever tongs or something you don’t burn yourself with.
- Let cool for 15 minutes and place plate on top and turn cake onto plate. Glaze. ????
That sounds so super yummy Arturo! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your kind words! Happy 2019!
This was awesome!! Very delicious and easy to make. Put a lot of pecans and some raisins yuuuummmmm
Hi Donielle, AT the bottom of the post, click the big pink button that says ‘click for recipe’. Hope you enjoy! 🙂
So excited to try this! Do you think it would freeze well at all?
No it doesn’t, but you certainly can if you want. Hope you enjoy!
Does this need to be refrigerated?
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You can also click the pink button at the bottom of the post for recipe as well. Enjoy!!
I never could find your recipe. It looks wonderful, would love to make it but can’t find the recipe. Please help…..
I’ve made this several times now both as bread and muffins. The one thing I do differently is add the apples to the batter, better dispersment and no crumbling. Thanks for the awesome recipe!
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I do not see the ingredients..the recipe at all. Am i just missing it? Is there a link that i am supposed to click to get the recipe? Please help
Why can I not find this recipe in this post?
Don’t get me wrong, this recipe is good as it stands, however, myself and a few friends that made it went in thinking it would taste more like an apple fritter. To get more of that flavor I added another half of a latge apple and stirred that and the cinnamon sugar into the batter, using about half of the recommended amount of cinnamon sugar. Both recipes are delicious though!
I’m so glad you did too! Thank you so much!! woohoo! 🙂
Just made this. It’s delicious! Glad I made 2!
Hi Barbara! 8″ x 4″ or 8-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ loaf pans would work, but the smaller would probably be the best. Hope you enjoy!! 🙂
Hi Kim! I live in Senior housing. We get away with making full recipes by sharing with neighbors. In your Apple Fritter Bread, you wrote to bake a 2 loaf recipe for 30 to 40 minutes. Can you tell me what size loaf pan you would use for the two loaf recipe? Two loaves cut in half would feed four of us nicely. Thanks for sharing!! Barb
Yes you can Ashlyn for a few days, if it lasts that long! 🙂 If it’s eating a tidbit here and there, to make it last, I would probably put in the fridge though. Enjoy!!
Can you leave this at room temperature once made?
Taylor, that is so funny about your friend only getting 2 slices, because I know exactly what you mean. It’s addicting!! I’m so glad it all worked out for you and found me too! That really makes my day more than you know! xoxo
In my comment of Aug 8 I mentioned how the cake overflowed in pan. I bought new pans the day before to ensure all was well but thinking back, I suspect I had too much apple. I did rescue the loaf and once cooled, my friend received only 2 slices for her birthday. I could not take a chance and give her something I had not tried ( LOL ) and once I tried it I could not stop. Eight days later and I have made two more. This loaf is as close to heaven as I will ever get. So glad I came across your blog. Thank you.
I’m so sorry Taylor! Are you using a 9×5 pan? If you use a smaller pan, it will overflow and the pan should not be shallow. I really hope you try it again, because it’s totally worth it.
I have been viewing this recipe for the past month and decided to make it yesterday for a friend’s birthday. At $5.90 per apple I have to make certain that the recipe is worth the cost. I even invested in new loaf pans to ensure I would follow the recipe exactly as shown. I don’t know what went wrong but it was in the oven for 10 minutes when it overflowed the pan, leaving one heck of a mess on the bottom of my oven. I removed pan and using the foil I lined pan with, I put it in a bread pan. It continued to overflow so was forced to remove and discard entire loaf. Heartbreaking. Not sure where I went wrong but I will not be beaten. It looks so good that I will try again.
Yes, it’s 1/2 cup butter Katherin. Hope you enjoy!! 🙂
Is it really 1/2 cup of butter? It doesn’t look like that much butter in the video? Thanks!
I’m so happy you’ve made it over and over and your hubby is a fan! I love that will be a sweet memory you can share with her and honored that you shared it with me. Apple fritter bread brings everyone together! (I’ve also snuck those sugary apples! Couldn’t resist either!)
Ive made this recipe at least 10 times.
Its my husband’s favorite, my daughter loves sneaking the sugary apples while were baking together.
So glad you loved it!! 🙂
This was yummy! The bread came out very moist after baking exactly 1 hr. I added a little nutmeg just because I like it. This goes great with a cup of tea or you could warm it up and put a dollop of vanilla ice cream on top. I will be making this again and again!
So glad you tried it Teresa! 🙂 The toasted pecans do sound good!
The App,e Fritter cake is delicious. I took a reviewers suggestion and added toasted pecans. Good advice! I will be making this again. Thanks you for sharing m
Hi Brenda! So glad you enjoyed it and I love the lemon infusion and buttermilk glaze. 🙂 That’s why I love this bread, it’s so versatile and yummy!
THANK YOU!! Great Apple Bread! I doubled the recipe and baked two 9×4 loaves and they both came out perfect. They both baked a bit longer than 60 minutes, but that was because I added too much apple. I just tested with a probe to complete baking. I already had them peeled and sliced soaked in water and lemon for a week because I baked a pie. I really liked the lemon infusion. I also used a really -really good vanilla flavoring. Because it seemed to call for enough sugar inside the bread along with the sweet apples, I only made the glaze for 1 loaf and I used buttermilk instead of whole milk for the glaze. before glazing, I sprinkled chopped walnuts on the top, so when the glaze hardened, it set nicely. Oh -also, I was confused about the swirl technique, so I ended up stirring the batter – I thought – too much., but after slicing about 2 slices I saw a really professional swirl of apples and cinnamon!
I made this tonight, it smells amazing! However it took me far longer to bake than was stated. It took me about 1 hour & 45 minutes to get it done. It is still very moist. I believe it maybe the apples I used? I will defiantly try this again, but with different apples or I will spilt it into 2 smaller loaf pans.
How sweet! Thank you! 🙂
I just couldn’t leave without saying thank you from
your base of my heart after looking over this wonderful website!
Bread will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months; I don’t recommend storing it in the fridge because it’ll dry out. So glad you enjoyed it Katie!
This turned out amazing!!! How do you store the leftovers? Does it need to ne in the fridge?
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and modified it to your liking! That sounds amazing in a large cast iron pan! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by Dr.!