Apple Spice Bread with Cinnamon Frosting
This easy quick bread is a perfect fall treat! Tasty with or without the luscious cinnamon frosting, it's moist, soft & fluffy, packed with apples and so yummy! Bonus: your house will smell amazing while it bakes.
Servings: 1 loaf
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter or dairy-free butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs, whisked
- ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups gluten-free all purpose flour we used GF Jules Flour (affiliate link)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon all spice
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 cups loosely packed shredded apple grate with a box grater, then after measuring, gently squeeze out excess water, especially if apples are fresh and juicy!
Cinnamon Frosting (optional)
- ½ cup cream cheese, room temperature
- ¼ cup butter or dairy-free butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
Topping
- walnut halves and pieces as desired (optional)
Instructions
Apple Spice Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and grease and flour a 10 inch loaf pan (or line it with parchment paper). Set aside.
- If you haven't already grated your apples, do so using a box grater. Let juice drain and gently squeeze out excess before adding to batter. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar and using a stand or hand mixer, mix until creamed (well combined)
- Add eggs, apple sauce and vanilla and mix to combine.
- In a separate small bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, all spice and nutmeg using a pastry cutter, whisk or fork.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix to combine. Do not over-mix.
- Add in apples and mix to just combine.
- Spoon batter into prepared baking pan and spread evenly. Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick comes our clean. Pro tip, check at 45 minutes and if the center is not cooked fully but the top is done, cover loosely with foil and continue baking. Do not over-bake.
- Let cool in the pan for 20-30 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on wire baking rack. Slice and enjoy! OR let cool completely and top with cinnamon frosting and walnuts, then enjoy!**
Cinnamon Frosting
- In a large mixing bowl, cream cream cheese and butter until well combined.
- Add cinnamon, vanilla and powdered sugar. Mix slowly at first to combine, then increase speed and mix until creamy.
- Generously spread on top of completely cooled bread. Top with walnuts as desired and enjoy! **
- NOTE: frosting can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator.
Notes
Bread can be enjoyed plain and is fabulous!
Or Bread can be topped with cinnamon frosting and walnuts as desired for something more special.
**Options for frosting:
For frosted bread to be freshest, frost shortly before before serving.
If you frost the entire bread, it can be stored for several days in the refrigerator as you would a cake, loosely covered with wax paper, tooth picks keeping the paper from sticking to the frosting.
Alternatively, store the frosting in a sealed container in the refrigerator and frost slices as serving.
Unfrosted bread stores well in the refrigerator, wrapped in wax paper, then foil, for several days or freeze for several months.
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This is such good apple bread! I’m not particularly into frosting so I left that off. It was easy to make (if your husband peels and grates the apples… 😆). I made it exactly as written and it turned out perfectly!
This was delicious! I love it didn’t need a ton of sugar. Family approved! Will make again 🙂
Happy you loved it! Thank you!