As a kid I didn’t love Fall. I didn’t love apples. How can you as a kid?
Fall marked the end of summer which meant the sun clipped all the neighborhood games and playing by an hour. And worst, stone fruits gave away to apples.
I’m not talking about the sweet varieties like the honey crisps, the jonagolds and the ambrosia. All I can recall ever having were mealy, Red Delicious apples and eye-crossingly tart Granny Smiths.
Do you see why Fall was such a seasonal bust in my world view back then?
Fast forward a 20+ years, and I’m wearing boots in 90 degree weather, pulling out scarves and sweaters for when it dips just below 78 and making the unrelenting heat worse by turning the house into a sweat box while baking up Fall treats like this apple cinnamon bread.
Yep, I’m officially old according to my son, “Apple bread is what old people like, not kids, Mom. Can I have a Fruit Roll-up instead?”
Well at least I used good apples like honey crisps.
Apple Cinnamon Bread
Recipe adapted from Better, Homes and Gardens, here
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup sour cream
1 cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2teaspoon baking soda
1/2teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2teaspoon salt
1/2teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/4 cups chopped, peeled tart apples
Instructions
Preparation: Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a stand mixer bowl fitted with a paddle attachment beat together granulated sugar, sour cream, butter, eggs, and vanilla on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
Stir together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt; add to sour cream mixture, beating on low speed until combined; set aside. In a small bowl combine melted butter,sugar, cinnamon and apples. Turn half of batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with apple mixture; repeat with remaining ingredients. Give the batter a quick swirl with a knife to distribute the cinnamon mixture and apples through out the loaf.
Bake in a 350 degree F for 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
This looks wonderful! Oh and it’s so festive and perfect for Fall! I adore all things apple this time of year.
oh my goodness. . your son is hilarious! Well, old people food or not, I love this apple cinnamon bread!!! gorgeous!
If apple bread is what old people call, call me a fossil, because this bread looks perfect! I love fall, fall flavors and definitely boots and scarves so I’m pumped this season is here. Time to get my bake on! Pinned!
Yah, this is drop dead gorgeous!!! Perfection!
This is the perfect bread for the Fall season!
HA! Well I guess I am an old fart too, because I would happily eat an entire loaf of this apple cinnamon bread! It looks super moist and ultra delicious! Pinned! Cheers to a fabulous week!
Girl don’t worry. Being old is just fine when you make stuff like this. It looks sensational!
What a great apple and cinnamon loaf! Must try recipe 🙂
Ha ha. Well, I’d happily be considered old if it meant I got to eat this gorgeous bread!
Baked apple goods have always been a treat in my life! Beautiful bread, Naomi.
Ha! You are never to old to eat apple bread! This looks amazing. Also, it’s flipping 90 here in Denver…..dying to wear boots too.
If you’re old, I’m a dinosaur lol. Great looking bread and perfect for fall!
This bread looks dangerously good!
Such a great way to use up apples!! This loaf sounds incredible!
Looks great ! Can this bread be made in a bread machine?
I imagine the amazing taste of this bread with apple and vanilla flavor
Oh gosh! I wish I could agree with you but I have always loved fall. And apples! And apple bread! I guess I am old too, and have been for my whole life 😉 Lovely recipe; lovely photos. As always!
this is gorgeous I would eat the whole loaf if I could!
I went to make this but you have not said what to do with the butter, it is in the ingredients list but not in the method.
Gorgeous, the perfect fall bread!
At the top of the recipe it says it yields an 8 x 4 loaf, but your directions say to prepare a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Which size pan should we use? Thanks.
The call of fall has hit you hard – welcome to the club!! This is definitely the way to ring it in right!
HA! And then you handed him a piece of that cake and he loved it and you were like, “Yeah, see? Apple cake isn’t just for old farts like me.” 😉
I bet your son would change his mind if you added a big dollop of vanilla ice cream on top! which is totally how I want to eat this whole bread!!
Gorgeous Naomi! Your son’s comment reminds me of my boys when they were kids! When I made homemade from scratch cinnamon rolls my oldest said, “Hey, Mom I like the ones in the can! You know, the dough boy one?!” UGH!
I’ve been making a ton of bread myself the past few weeks.. Must be something in the water. HOWEVER yours looks fantastic Naomi!
Fall has the best food, and this is right up there at the top of the list! Gorgeous! ?
This looks quite delicious, and I want to make it, but – where does the butter come in? It’s in the ingredients list, but not mentioned in the instructions. Does it get creamed at the beginning?
Sounds delicious!
RED DELICIOUS APPLES WERE THE BANE OF MY CHILDHOOD. Why did our parents buy those?! Surely there were other, tastier, apples available then as there are now?! I have a vivid memory of being yelled at for crying about having to finish one. Why did they have to be so big and styrofoam–y? To this day, looking at them makes me sneer.
Your son doesn’t know what he’s missing…. At least you buy good apples 😛
If this little dude says this is old people food – than I must be elderly, because I want this wholllleee gorgeous loaf!!
Gorgeous bread! Love the cinnamon swirl and studs of apple – perfect for autumn. And totally understand you encouraging it to hurry up and arrive a little sooner – we are in the southern hemisphere heading into summer and all this talk of pumpkins and apples has me almost wishing we could skip straight to the cooler weather 🙂
butter is in the ingredient list, but not in the directions…
When do you add it?
…and is the butter softened? melted? cold?
This apple cinnamon bread looks absolutely incredible! We’re going apple picking next weekend and this would be the perfect recipe to make – pinning for sure! 🙂
What do you do with the butter? Cut it into cinnamon-sugar?
where does the butter come in? I don’t see it mentioned in directions
The luscious sounding bread is now happily baking in my oven, but I never figured out what I was supposed to do with the butter. Did anyone ever get an answer to that question? I just left it out.
Where does the butter come in?
I was wondering about the butter, too. In the recipe this one references, the butter is combined in a saucepan with the brown sugar. So when I made the apple cinnamon bread, I melted the butter in the microwave and stirred the brown sugar and cinnamon into it. This resulted in lovely cinnamon-y swirls throughout the bread, so I’m fairly confident that that’s what was meant for the butter.
Hello, your recipe is great! Super delicious! But one thing I though I should let you know is that in the ingredients it asked for 1/4 cup butter and no where in the directions does it say to add the butter in. I went ahead and added it to the wet ingredients, but just thought you should know and fix it for the non-bakers who might have trouble with something like that.
Very confused about the butter??
It say to mix butter with egg and sour cream. Then it also says to mix butter with brown sugar. How much butter goes with the egg mixture