Apple Spice Bread: a delicious quick bread
This Apple Spice Bread is easy to make and can be assembled in less than half an hour! It’s a delightful cross between moist apple bread and decadent spice cake!
So, let’s talk about why this Apple Spice Bread is my new favorite quick bread:
- Baking this apple quick bread doesn’t require any special equipment…you can leave your mixer in the cupboard!
- It is less than 30 minutes from when you decide to make this Spiced Apple Bread until you pop it in the oven.
- While baking your spiced apple bread, your house will smell heavenly, redolent with cinnamon, apples, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
- By calling it a ‘bread’ you can justify eating a deliciously moist, almost cake, for breakfast!
- This Apple Quickbread uses up apples that are getting past their prime.
- Bake this Fall Spice Bread in mini-loaves for gifting!
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I just wanted to let you know that I made your Apple Spice Bread again
jackie
today. It has become my go to quick bread! I love a good Banana Bread and a
good Date Loaf but this ASBread is just so tasty and so easy to make. A
beautiful, spicy, well packed loaf.
Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Mini Bread Bags
These smaller-sized bread bags make gifting the mini-version of your bread so very easy. Tuck your bread in, tie it up with a pretty ribbon, and you’re done!
So, are you sold yet? If not, I challenge you to bake it, sit down with your cup of tea or coffee and a slice of this apple spice bread and not say, “Dang, that is some good bread!”
If you can, use freshly grated nutmeg in your apple spice bread.
I was very late to board the ‘freshly grated nutmeg’ train, but now I am a frequent traveler on that train. Truly, you just can’t beat the woody and warm taste of freshly grated nutmeg.
This nutmeg grater belonged to my grandma, who left us 40 years ago. She was a prolific and proficient baker, and I feel her alongside me in the kitchen when I use her nutmeg grater.
Apple Spice Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 heaping 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg freshly ground if possible!
- 1/4 teaspoons ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup diced apples 2 apples, peeled and seed
- 2 Tablespoons milk nut milk, buttermilk, or apple juice
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F for a 9" by 5" loaf or 325°F for mini-loaves
- Grease loaf pans. (I really like Bak-Klene which you can purchase at Williams-Sonoma.)
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger in a large bowl.
- In a smaller bowl or large measuring cup, combine oil, eggs, both sugars, applesauce, vanilla, and milk or milk substitute.
- Pour wet ingredients over the dry ingredients, along with the diced apples. Gently mix together
- Pour the batter into your prepared pan(s). Bake 9" by 5" loaf pan for 55-60 minutes (or mini-loaf pans for 35-40 minutes) or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before removing from pans.
- Will keep in the fridge for 7-10 days, assuming it doesn't get gobbled up beforehand!
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Looking for more Apple Recipes?
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This spiked apple cider recipe is like a cup of fall! The warm, caramel cider is perfect for tailgating or sipping around the fire on a cool fall evening. An easy, super tasty, and warm alcoholic drink that is like fall in a glass.
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This quick bread has all the feels – great spice, moisture, density and is down right delicious!
We’ve had some unseasonably cool weather this week and I’ve been in the mood to bake some fall bread – this looks amazing!
It will get you Fall-ready in no time!
In the oven now, wow does the house smell like fall!!
Right!? I am so glad to contribute a does of fall to you. Hugs!
This sounds delicious. Have you ever adapted with gluten-free flours? I’m considering trying with a mix of sorghum flour and tapioca or potato starch.
Hi Trudy, I am sorry, but I have not tried it with Gluten Free flour. If you do, I’d love to share your thoughts with everyone. Do let me know what you do and how it works.
Lynn
Can you use a can of fried apples? I very rarely buy apples.
Good Morning Syndi,
I don’t know, to be honest. I’ve never had fried apples before. If there is a syrup and you can drain them, I would think you could treat them just like regular apples. If you do try it, let me know how it turns out.
Hugs, Lynn
I will be making this recipe tomorrow. thanks.
Where did you get the plastic bags that the breads are wrapped in?
Kathy
Hi Kathy, here are the bread bags I use.
Happy Baking.
Lynn
Can I make this bread without diced apples? I rarely buy apples.
Hi Fran, what about pears? Think this bread would be delciious with pears.
Let me know how you proceed.
Lynn
If I were to sub the brown sugar with honey what other changes would be required?
Hi Rita!
I haven’t subbed in honey instead of brown sugar, but from what I’ve read and understand, here’s the following adjustments that would need to be made to the recipe:
Use 1/4 cup of honey instead of 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
Add a pinch (1/16 tsp) of baking soda..
Reduce the milk to 1 TB
Lower the temperature to 325° for regular sized loaf or 300° for mini size loaf.
To be honest, you’ll be testing this as I haven’t done it. Please do let me know how it works out.
Hugs, Lynn
As the caption says, this bread is both delicious and quick! I made it on my lunch break and the smell in the house for the rest of the afternoon was wonderful. If you could describe a dish as cosy then this is it. Definitely a new “go to” recipe for me.
Thanks so much for sharing & best wishes from Ireland
Suzanne
Oh Suzanne,
Thanks so much for the very lovely compliment! It is a good cozy bread, isn’t it?! And I know just how delightful your home smelled…that’s almost worth baking the bread in and of itself!
Your country is high on my list of places I need to go…I’ve been close, but have never quite made it to Ireland.
Many hugs, Lynn
p.s. If you have a chance, leaving a review and a star ranking on the actual recipe card helps other bakers find the recipe. If you are so inclined, here’s the link. https://nourishandnestle.com/apple-spice-bread-a-delicious-quick-bread/#comment
So quick and easy to make and it tastes absolutely delicious! A great addition to school lunch boxes as an occasional treat, my son loved it.
Thanks for taking time to review this yummy recipe, Suzanne! So glad you enjoyed it.
I’m tickled that you enjoy it as much as we do! Thanks for the kind comment.
Thanks Laura! They do make great gifts, don’t they!?
This quick apple bread has the most amazing flavor, and it’s so easy to whip up when the craving strikes. I love your photo and note about your sweet grandma’s nutmeg grater, too.
Aw, thanks Eliza! I have such wonderful memories of my grandma.
where is the recipe for the Apple Spice Bread????? I only see the swirled one.
Oh Geez! I was ‘fixing’ the post today and accidentally deleted the recipe! 🫢 I’m so sorry for the frustration and causing near tears! I feel awful.
That said, it is fixed. You can now access the recipe here.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I would really like to try this recipe but I have searched this post for a very long time and am unable to find the recipe. I’m almost ready to cry it’s so disappointing.
Oh Geez! I was ‘fixing’ the post today and accidentally deleted the recipe! 🫢 I’m so sorry for the frustration and causing near tears! I feel awful.
That said, it is fixed. You can now access the recipe here.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Thank you so much for making the recipe available again. I’m definitely going to give it a try!😊
Hi Sue,
You are so welcome and thanks for letting me know. Enjoy!