This simple healthy apple bread recipe is baked up with cinnamon and fresh diced apples for an easy and delicious quick bread you can dunk in your coffee or enjoy with a nice cup of tea. I love making this loaf because it’s easy, the ingredients are simple, and it just makes the kitchen smell like fall. Make this easy cinnamon fall apple loaf when you crave a delicious spiced bread filled with the smells and flavors of autumn.
Easy Cinnamon Spiced Healthy Apple Bread Recipe For Fall
The small diced apples and cinnamon infuse this easy apple bread recipe throughout with flavor, while butter, brown sugar, and a hint of sour cream make it lightly sweet, delicious and moist.
Make This Easy Apple Fall Spice Bread For Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Holidays
This easy apple loaf is a great recipe for fall, Thanksgiving and the holidays, but I like making it all throughout the winter season too. Crisp Japanese Fuji apples are my favorite to use because they have a long shelf life and they are consistent in flavor.
Fuji apples are always sweet, crisp, and delicious…not really tart at all. Perfect for baking up with flour and butter into a fruity apple bread.
Best Apples For Making Healthy Apple Bread
Their flesh softens nicely as it bakes and melts into the bread making it delicious, moist, and soft. Ideally, Gala apples and Honeycrisp apples would make very nice choices as well.
Related: Boozy Autumn Red Apple Punch
An Easy Moist and Delicious Healthy Apple Bread
The recipe will make a thick batter, but bread batters typically have a meatier and thicker consistency. This one bakes with a nice crinkly top and I think it tastes even better the next day.
Bake this bread throughout the fall and holiday season to enjoy for yourself or wrap in clear cellophane with long dangly ribbons—it makes a stunning gift!
Make Easy Cinnamon Fall Spiced Apple Bread
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan with baking spray (or grease it with a little butter). Combine dry ingredients. In a separate medium bowl start by combining flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon by whisking together gently until combined. Set aside.
combine butter and sugar
In the electric mixer or stand mixer, combine butter and sugar together by beating on medium speed for 3 or 4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Next, crack your eggs open into a separate little bowl and add them in one at a time along with the vanilla.
add dry ingredients
Finish beating the eggs into the batter and then reduce the speed to low. Now grab the bowl with your combined dry ingredients (flour/baking soda/salt/cinnamon) and with the speed still on low, add it in a little at a time until combined.
add fresh diced apple To make Easy Apple Bread
Remove the bowl from the mixer and scoop in your sour cream, and pour in the cup of small diced fresh red apple.
stir everything together
Finishing up by stirring these in with a spatula by hand until just combined.
Transfer and bake Your Apple Fall Spice Bread
Transfer the batter to your greased 9×5 inch loaf pan and bake in a 350F degree oven for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
When bake time is up, remove from the oven and set on a rack to cool for 20 to 30 minutes before serving. When bread is completely cooled, wrap remaining bread firmly with plastic wrap and finish within a week.
Enjoy this warming cinnamon apple bread in the fall and throughout the holiday season with coffee, tea, or even warm and served up a la mode with scoops of vanilla or cinnamon ice cream on top! It’s filled with tiny pockets of fresh baked apple and dotted all over with warm cinnamon flavor.
Delicious, simple, and not overly sweet, this simple autumn apple cinnamon quick bread is literally perfect for nibbling any time of the day.
An Easy Healthy Apple Bread Recipe with Cinnamon Spice For Fall
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 3/4 cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
- 1 stick 8 tbsp Unsalted Softened Butter - at room temp
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream - regular sour cream at room temp
- 2 Eggs - Large at room temp
- 1 tsp Cinnamon - ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Diced Red Apple - small dice – I used Fuji Apple
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan with baking spray or grease it with a little butter. Combine dry ingredients. In a separate medium bowl start by combining flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon by whisking together gently until combined. Set aside.1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour, 1 tsp Baking Soda, 3/4 tsp Salt, 1 tsp Cinnamon
- In the electric mixer or stand mixer, combine butter and sugar together by beating on medium speed for 3 or 4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Next, crack your eggs open into a separate little bowl and add them in one at a time along with the vanilla.3/4 cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar, 1 stick 8 tbsp Unsalted Softened Butter, 2 Eggs, 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Finish beating the eggs into the batter and then reduce the speed to low. Now grab the bowl with your combined dry ingredients (flour/baking soda/salt/cinnamon) and with the speed still on low, add it in a little at a time until combined.
- Remove the bowl from the mixer and scoop in your sour cream, and pour in the cup of small diced fresh red apple. Finishing up by stirring these in with a spatula by hand until just combined.1/2 cup Sour Cream, 1 cup Diced Red Apple
- Transfer the batter to your greased 9×5 inch loaf pan and bake in a 350F degree oven for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- When bake time is up, remove from the oven and set on a rack to cool for 20 to 30 minutes before serving. When bread is completely cooled, wrap remaining bread firmly with plastic wrap and finish within a week.
