Cinnamon Glazed Apple Bread

I am still not done exploring many other possibilities. When I chose the theme, Fall fruit dessert as this week's BM theme, the first fruit of choice was an apple.

Spiced Apple Jam is one of the very sought-after recipes at my house. I always have a batch of it in the refrigerator and my boys eat it with pretty much everything under the sky. I will list the other Apple recipes that I have made below.

Why does this recipe work?

This Lemon Blueberry Bread, which I made a while ago was very popular. The color of the bread was just so beautiful, making it even more attractive to eat. I took inspiration from the same bread, played with the recipe a little, and made this Cinnamon Glazed Apple Bread.

I used a part of whole wheat flour in this recipe and there was just no difference between the ones made with entirely all-purpose flour. After baking, I think this bread has an even greater texture and slices way more beautifully than bread made entirely with APF.

Cinnamon is the only predominant spice I used in this bread as it is fall and what better than a whole house smelling of cinnamon and apples?

I used gala apples as we like slightly sweeter apples in our bread. Granny Smith is a popular apple for baking and has a more tart/sour flavor. Peeling the apple is important as the skin tends to become hard and chewy when baking.

I did not use lemon juice in my apples to preserve the color. Instead, I chopped the apple right before it was time to go into the batter. This way it maintained the color. The apples remained intact and had a pleasant bite to them after baking.

After baking this delicious and easy cinnamon apple bread, if you have more Gala and Granny Smith Apples, try this apple pie with a graham cracker crust.

Also if you want to switch up the flavors a bit and have pears in your fruit basket, then make this pear bread instead.

Ingredients needed

• All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
• Whole Wheat Flour - ½ cup
• Cinnamon powder - 1 ½ tsp
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - ½ tsp
• Butter - ⅓ cup (softened)
• Granulated sugar - 1 cup
• Eggs - 2
• Milk - ½ cup
• Apple - 2 cups (peeled and chopped fine)

For the Cinnamon Glaze -

• Powdered sugar - ¾ cup
• Cinnamon - ¾ tsp
• Milk - 1 to 2 tbsp

• Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line a standard 9 x 5 loaf pan with parchment paper or coat it with cooking/baking spray.

• In a medium bowl, add the flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder and whisk it well to combine. You could also sieve them, but just using a wire whisk and mixing works well.

• In the bowl of the mixer, cream the sugar and butter.

• Add the eggs and beat in medium-high until light and frothy.

• Add the flour mixture alternating with the milk and mix well to form a batter.

• Peel, core, and chop the apples into small pieces.

• Add the chopped apples to the batter and gently mix to combine evenly.

• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf and bake for about 55 to 60 minutes. Rotate the pan once in between for even baking. Insert a toothpick in the center of the loaf to see if it comes out clean. There will be a few wet crumbs attached to it and that is fine.

• Remove the pan from the oven and let the bread sit in the pan for about 10 minutes.

• Now remove the bread from the pan and let it completely cool down before glazing.

• To Prepare the Cinnamon Glaze - Combine all the ingredients mentioned in a small bowl, Make sure that the glaze is thick and not too runny. Drizzle the glaze evenly over the cooled bread and enjoy!