Don’t you just love fall? It is such a fantastic season filled with so much fun and yummy fall food. Normally every fall we head to the apple orchard and pick apples. We love it. It is a fun family fall tradition. So far this year, we haven’t been able to fit it in. I didn’t let that stop me from making a few apple recipes so we could feel like we had gone to the apple orchard. Apple bread was the first thing on my list of recipes to try this fall.
My cousin shared this recipe with me about 4 years ago. Yep, I’m quick like that. I finally got around to trying it this year. She made some modifications from the original recipe and I modified it a little bit more. This apple bread certainly didn’t disappoint. It was moist with great flavors and a crunchy, delicious topping.
When we do make it to the apple orchard, it is on a mountain, which means we spend the day hiking up and down the hills, not to mention carrying all those pounds of apples around. After a day in the apple orchard, the last thing I want to do is spend a long time cooking. This recipe is easy to mix together. Then it just bakes in the oven for 50-60 minutes. Easy Peasy. Perfect for an evening following the apple orchard, a day at work or a busy weekend.
The original recipe called for oil and white flour as well as full-fat sour cream. My cousin gave me the idea to change a few of those things and I then changed a few of her ideas as well. In the end, you have a recipe that is a little bit healthier by using applesauce rather than oil and light sour cream rather than full-fat sour cream.
I also always cook with white whole wheat
(affiliate link) as it adds some additional healthiness over traditional white flour. My cousin added the toasted oat bran to the topping on the bread, which adds some additional fiber among other things. Putting all of these little changes together makes the overall end result a little bit healthier. It doesn’t lose anything in the flavor department, if anything the use of the applesauce for the oil ups the apple flavor in the bread.
(affiliate link) as it adds some additional healthiness over traditional white flour. My cousin added the toasted oat bran to the topping on the bread, which adds some additional fiber among other things. Putting all of these little changes together makes the overall end result a little bit healthier. It doesn’t lose anything in the flavor department, if anything the use of the applesauce for the oil ups the apple flavor in the bread.
The recipe will make two loaves of apple bread. If your house is like mine, it will go quickly. I couldn’t even get them to wait until I had taken the pictures (hence why the one loaf is never fully in the other pictures). Can you tell that we had already eaten a few slices before I got to the pictures….the cut up loaf is a bit smaller than had I just cut those slices for the pictures. We just couldn’t wait…it was too delicious!
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Oh that looks yummy. I’ll have to give it a try.
Sarabeth
Thanks. It sure was yummy! Enjoy!
KC
This is that time of year that I love cooking with apples! We didn’t go out and pick our own this year but we always did in NJ! I just printed out this recipe – it looks delish!
Did you miss going to pick apples this year? Well even if you don’t go apple picking, you can pretend like you did with fun apple recipes! Enjoy!
KC
JACK POT!!!!! Apple anything is my weakness!! I will be trying this recipe out soon! Printing it out now!! Thanks for sharing the yummy!!! 🙂 ~Leah~
So glad you found it! It was super yummy…I couldn’t even get people to wait for me to take the pictures before they started eating it! 🙂 Enjoy!
Kc
This looks scrumptious, thanks for sharing :o) x
You are welcome! I hope you enjoy it if you make it.
KC
Delish!
Thanks! It sure was!
KC
This sounds delicious and healthy. Apple anything goes fast in my house so a recipe without too much extra fat is always nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! It sure is yummy and I agree, keeping things a bit more healthy is always good.
Take care,
KC
My family looooooooooves apple desserts (cakes/pies/muffins etc) so all-year-round I make different apple cakes.
Yours looks YUMMY and definitely worth trying 🙂
It sure looks like your family loves apple desserts! The couple you linked up this week, looked AMAZING! I hope you enjoy this recipe if you give it a try.
Take care,
KC
This looks delicious!!! I LOVE apple flavored everythings!! I will be trying this with our remained apples from the orchard.
Yes, apple anything is yummy for sure! I hope you love this bread…we thought it was delicious.
Take care,
KC
Thank you so much! I appreciate the feature as well as letting me know! It is super yummy. I hope if you get the chance to make it you really love it!
Take care,
KC
I don’t see any cooking instructions on this post, like how to mix the ingredients, cooking temperature/time, pan prep or info for the “crunchy topping”. All I see is an ingredient list. Am I missing something?
If you click on the link to look at or download the recipe, all the directions are in that file. Enjoy!
KC
Oh goodness that bread looks so delicious. Perfect for Fall.
Thanks! It is perfect for fall and super yummy!
Thanks so much! It is a delicious and yummy fall treat.