Apple Bread with Cinnamon Frosting
The best thing since sliced bread is a slice of Apple Bread with Cinnamon Frosting. Studded with Honeycrisp apples and slathered with cinnamon-spiced cream cheese frosting, this quick bread is a sweet way to switch up your breakfast routine.
Equipment
- 9 x 5 metal loaf pan
Ingredients
Apple Bread
- 2 cups all-purpose flour unbleached
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp sea salt fine
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 8 Tbsp unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups Honeycrisp apples peeled and diced
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract pure
Cinnamon Frosting
- 1/2 cup cream cheese softened to room temperature
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract pure
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp caramel sauce optional
Instructions
Apple Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously coat a 9 x 5 metal loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray then set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar together for 2 minutes or until well combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add eggs, one at a time, and beat until smooth.
- Add vanilla and beat until incorporated.
- Reduce mixer speed to low then add dry ingredients to wet, mixing until just barely combined.
- Add apples to batter, gently stirring by hand with a spoon until evenly distributed then pour into prepared loaf pan. Level top with a spatula. Note: batter will be thick.
- Bake for 30 minutes then cover loaf with aluminum foil (to prevent overbrowning) and bake for an additional 30 to 35 minutes. Bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and dry. For best results, avoid overbaking.
- Cool loaf in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Cinnamon Frosting
- Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy - approximately 2 minutes.
- Add butter and continue beating until combined.
- Reduce mixer speed to low then add vanilla, cinnamon and powdered sugar. Beat on low until combined then beat on high until light and fluffy.
- When apple bread has cooled completely, top with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. If desired swirl caramel sauce into frosting.
- Frosted bread will keep covered in the refrigerator up to 5 days. Unfrosted bread can be covered and stored at room temperature up to 5 days.