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Double-Apple Walnut Bread Recipe

Photo Credit
Sam Jones/Quinn Brein
Yield
Makes 1 loaf
Category
Bread
Course
Breads
Sources
The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Baking
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Our Double-Apple Walnut Bread is the perfect bread for fall! Packed with fruit and walnuts, it just tastes like autumn and is a great seasonal alternative to traditional banana bread.

Served warm or cold, this apple walnut bread makes a great breakfast, snack, or dessert! 

Read more about the best apples for cooking and baking.

Ingredients
1 cup sweetened or unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup peeled, cored, and finely diced apple
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x5-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper, if desired. 
  2. Combine applesauce, 1/2 cup of sugar, brown sugar, eggs, oil, yogurt, and vanilla in a bowl. Whisk to blend.
  3. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a separate bowl. Make a well and add the applesauce mixture. Stir until combined. Fold in diced apples and walnuts. Scrape batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar. 
  4. Bake on the center oven rack for 50 to 55 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. 
  5. Transfer to a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Turn the bread out of the pan and cool thoroughly before slicing. 
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Comments

Katherine Manning (not verified)

1 year ago

Please make these recipes printable.

Jeanette Copeland (not verified)

1 year ago

Would be helpful if your recipes were in a printable format..

Guy Allingham (not verified)

2 years 1 month ago

Thank you for your Double Apple and Walnut Cake recipe. I look forward to making it when it cools down and autumn finally arrives.

Molly Kooney (not verified)

2 years 1 month ago

It is disappointing that all of your recipes contain so much sugar. It is just not necessary.

Easy fix, don’t add the sugar. I love this recipe it’s delicious and I make many, many of the recipes on the Almanac, I find them very good.

Vicki (not verified)

3 years 1 month ago

This made a fantastic loaf! Used our own homemade apple sauce (no sugar added) and did not have yogurt so I substituted sour cream (no extra sugar). It was just perfect and incredibly moist. I personal observation - let the loaf sit in the pan to cool. We became impatient and the loaf broke apart when trying to take out of the baking pan whilst still hot. Wait about 10 minutes before doing this. I will make this again.

Great ideas for less sugar. I am highly allergic to sugar, however can sub with Honey. Also, gluten FREE is all my body can handle.
I'm wondering how to add honey instead of sugars? And wondering how to sub gluten-FREE flour. Advice appreciated. Tks. Liz