Every now & again I decide to make Apple Spice Bread to break up the days.  I love the way it warms me from the inside with all the deli­cious spices.  Espe­cially when it’s fresh out of the oven, just cooled enough to cut & eat with a pat of but­ter.  Oh, wow! It’s good stuff.  It’s also a dish that every­one here loves.  It can be a snack, dessert or break­fast on the go in our family.

What You Need:

1 1/2 Cup of Apple Sauce (reg­u­lar & unsweetened)

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1 Stick of Unsalted But­ter (softened)

2 Eggs

1 Tea­spoon Vanilla

2 Cup of All Pur­pose Flour

1 Tea­spoon Bak­ing Soda

1/2 Tea­spoon Bak­ing Powder

1 Tea­spoon Cinnamon

1/2 Tea­spoon Nutmeg

1/2 Tea­spoon All Spice

1/4 Tea­spoon Salt

1/2 Cup Wal­nuts (chopped)

Top­ping:

1/4 Cup of Brown Sugar

1/2 Tea­spoon Cinnamon

1/4 Cup Wal­nuts (chopped)

Pre­heat the oven to 350 degrees

Cook for approx­i­mately 1 hr– 1 hr 15 minutes

How To Put it Together:

Sim­ple. Sift dry ingre­di­ents together in a bowl (flour, bak­ing pow­der, bak­ing soda, salt, and all spices). Put the bowl aside while you cream together other ingredients.

In a mixer add in your apple sauce, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, but­ter (it should be soft­ened).  Cream together in a mixer on medium-high until every­thing is incor­po­rated and creamy.  Now add in the bowl slowly, you want to have these ingre­di­ents incor­po­rate fully into the creamy mixture.

Then add in your chopped wal­nuts.  I use a mini-food proces­sor for my wal­nuts, but you could chop them by hand as well.  If you don’t like wal­nuts or are aller­gic the leave them out.

Make your top­ping: sim­ply chop your wal­nuts & mix them together with brown sugar & cin­na­mon.  Again I used a mini-food proces­sor ease.

Pour into your greased  & floured pans. You can use a table­spoon of but­ter to grease & then about a 1 table­spoon of flour shake it around in the pan to the pan is coated.  You can use two 8x4 bread loaf pans or one 9x13 cake pan.  I used a cake pan here.  Once your pan(s) are filled sprin­kle your top­ping on it. Then pop in the oven bake for about 1hr to 1 hr 15minutes at 350 degrees.  I’d rec­om­mend check­ing it around the 1 hr mark, sim­ply use a tooth­pick or a knife & insert it into the bread.  When you pull it back it out if it is clean then your bread is done, if not then let it bake a lit­tle longer (check again 10–15 min­utes later).

It def­i­nitely has more of puffy top to it in the cake pan then it would in a bread pan.  A bread pan would have given it a more even appear­ance, but I kind of like the dif­fer­ence in look.  But then again I’m weird as my fam­ily often tells me.  Point being I made apple spice bread in a cake pan & got some weird looks from the fam­ily.  With a few vari­a­tions to the recipe I could have just made apple spice cake, but no I decided to make a big old bread in a cake pan.  And yes it was good.  Very good. Well worth the weird looks.

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