Cinnamon Apple Bread
Total Time
1 hour and 45 minutes
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour and 25 minutes
Rating
4.93 out of 5 stars
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Ingredients
10 servings
- 1 Granny Smith apple (, quartered, cored, thinly sliced 3 mm / 1/8" thick (Note 1)
- 1 1/2 tbsp demerara sugar (or turbinado sugar, Note 2)
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 3 cups diced Granny Smith apple (, 1/2” cubes, skin on (approx 2 large apples) (Note 2)
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder (Note 3)
- 1/4 tsp allspice (or mixed spice) (Note 3)
- 1 3/4 cups plain / all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda (, sifted (Note 4)
- 1/4 tsp cooking / kosher salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup yogurt (, plain unsweetened (sub sour cream), at room temperature (Note 5)
- 2 eggs (, at room temperature (Note 5)
- 1/2 cup canola oil (or other neutral flavoured oil)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup walnuts (, toasted, roughly chopped into 1cm/1/3" pieces (not too small) (Note 6)
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Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 200°C/390°F (180°C fan). Position shelf in the middle of the oven.
Step 2
Loaf pan (Note 7): Use a 21.5 x 11.5 x 7 cm / 4.5 x 8.5 x 2.75" pan. Spray with canola oil then line the long side + base with a single piece of paper leaving some overhang (don’t worry about lining short sides).
Step 3
Topping: Mix the Demerara sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Set aside.
Step 4
Cinnamon Apple: Mix Cinnamon Apple ingredients in a bowl. Set aside while you prepare the batter (the sugar will make the apple sweat = good thing!).
Step 5
Batter: Whisk the Dry ingredients in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk Wet ingredients. Pour Wet mix into the Dry bowl, whisk just until smooth. Stir in apples (including all juices) and walnuts. Batter should be thick but dollop-able (not pourable in thin stream, nor thick like sticky bread dough). Scrape into loaf pan, smooth surface.
Step 6
Topping: Take 1/4 of the apple slices, fan out (so they're overlapping) then arrange on top. Repeat in two more lots of 1/4 of an apple. (I find to cover the surface, I only use 3/4 of the apple.) Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar.
Step 7
Bake 60 minutes. Cover loosely with foil, bake for further 25 minutes or until skewer inserted into the centre comes out smooth.
Step 8
Rest 15 minutes in the pan then use paper overhang to remove to a rack. Cool at least 1 hour on rack before slicing!
Step 9
Serving - The bread is moist and flavoured enough to eat plain though nobody complains if it's lightly toasted and slathered with butter!
Step 10
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