Homemade Apple Bread with a Cinnamon Streusel Topping
This Apple Bread is moist, fluffy and topped with cinnamon streusel. This bread mixes up quickly and fills your home with warm fall smells. Apple bread is perfect for breakfast, brunch or a sweet snack.
When fall hits, it’s time for all the apple recipes. While I feel like October is the time for Caramel Apples and Cream Cheese Caramel Apple Dip, November is the time for those apple baked goods.
It’s time for Applesauce Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting and today, it’s time for this amazing Apple Bread.
Apple bread is a quick bread, like banana bread or Easy Zucchini Bread, so it requires no kneading or rising. The apples make it insanely moist and rich and the cinnamon streusel on top makes it totally droolworthy.
If you’re looking to fill your home with warm cinnamon smells and your belly with delicious baked apple flavor, let’s get started!
Why Make This Recipe
- Quick Bread: Quick bread doesn’t call for any yeast, kneading or rising. It mixes up in just minutes and rises as it bakes.
- Bursting with Apple Flavor: Every bite of this bread is infused with juices from the apple pieces, making each bite taste as comforting as warm apple pie. Yum!
- Cinnamon Streusel: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a good crumble topping. The cinnamon streusel on top of this bread is incredible!
Ingredients for Apple Bread
Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the recipe at the bottom for quantities.
- Apples: I used honeycrisp because they have just the right amount of tartness but you could use Braeburn, Fuji, Pink Lady or Granny Smith. I don’t recommend using Gala or Red Delicious as the flavor is more mild in these varieties.
- Shortening: Shortening makes this bread extra moist.
- Granulated Sugar: Just the right amount of sweetness for the bread.
- Eggs
- Buttermilk: Buttermilk gives this bread extra rise and richness of flavor.
- All Purpose Flour: No special flour is needed. If necessary, you can substitute this with 1:1 Gluten Free Flour.
- Vanilla
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon is used in the bread itself and in the crumb topping
- Nutmeg & Cardamom: For full fall flavor
- Butter and Brown Sugar: For the streusel topping. I don’t recommend using a substitution for the topping!
- Baking Soda & Baking Powder: To allow the bread to rise.
Tools
- Mixing Bowl
- Bread Pan: I use a 9x5x2” bread pan
- Apple Peeler
How to Make This Recipe
Step 1: Add all of the bread ingredients except for the apples. Use an electric hand mixer to combine everything together.
Step 2: Use a rubber spatula to stir the diced apples into the batter. Pour the batter into a greased bread loaf pan.
Step 3: Stir the flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon together.
Step 4: Drizzle with the melted butter, and stir until a crumble forms.
Step 5: Spoon the crumble over the top of the batter in the bread pan.
Step 6: Bake the apple bread for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Expert Tips
- Allow the bread to cool completely before you try to cut into it. Cutting it too soon will cause it to fall apart.
- You can use this same recipe to make muffins or mini loaves. Be sure and adjust your cooking time!
- The cinnamon crumble on top gives this bread plenty of flavor but you could dress it up even more by adding some Maple Cream Cheese Frosting!
Recipe FAQs
This bread is even more delicious and moist the second day after baking. Make sure you store it in an airtight container so it does not dry out.
You can also slice the bread and wrap individual slices in plastic wrap to freeze for later.
This bread is fine to be left at room temperature for a day or two, but any longer than that and it should be refrigerated to improve shelf life.
You want to use nice and firm apples for this apple bread recipe so they don’t completely fall apart during the baking process.
You can use just about any apple variety for this recipe. I prefer Honeycrisp but you could use Granny Smith, Braeburn, Pink Lady or Fuji. Gala or Red Delicious may not give as much flavor because they have a higher water content.
Did you enjoy this recipe? If so, make sure to check out these other recipes I picked out just for you:
- Apple Pie Baked Beans
- Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Homemade Caramel Milk
- Apple Pie Caramel Apple
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Homemade Apple Bread with Cinnamon Streusel Topping
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Bread Pan: I use a 9x5x2” bread pan
- Apple Peeler
Ingredients
Bread Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- 2 cups apples, I used honeycrisp, peeled and finely chopped
Topping Ingredients
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, add all of the bread ingredients except for the apples. Use an electric hand mixer to combine everything together.
- Use a rubber spatula to stir the diced apples into the batter.
- Pour the batter into a greased 9x5x2 bread loaf pan.
- In a small bowl, stir the flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon together. Drizzle with the melted butter, and stir until a crumble forms.
- Spoon the crumble over the top of the batter in the bread pan.
- Bake the apple bread for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow the bread to rest until it comes to room temperature. Then serve with butter and a warm beverage. Enjoy!
Notes
- Apples: I used honeycrisp because they have just the right amount of tartness but you could use Braeburn, Fuji, Pink Lady or Granny Smith. I don’t recommend using Gala or Red Delicious as the flavor is more mild in these varieties.
- All Purpose Flour: If necessary, you can substitute this with 1:1 Gluten Free Flour.
- Allow the bread to cool completely before you try to cut into it. Cutting it too soon will cause it to fall apart.
- You can use this same recipe to make muffins or mini loaves. Be sure and adjust your cooking time!
- The cinnamon crumble on top gives this bread plenty of flavor but you could dress it up even more by adding some Maple Cream Cheese Frosting!
