If you like apple fritters then you’ll love this Apple Fritter Pull-Apart Bread! I tried rolling the dough, like cinnamon rolls, however the texture wasn’t right. So even though this may look somewhat complicated to make, it’s not. You get all the flavors of an apple fritter, the texture and the wonderful glaze baked into one big bread. We ate ours warm and it is delicious!
Ingredients are as follows:
Dough:
3 C flour
1 package yeast
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 C brown sugar
1/4 C water
1 egg, beaten
3/4 C milk
1/4 C butter
Filling:
6 small apples, peeled & diced
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 C brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. cornstarch
Glaze:
1 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 C powdered sugar
3 tsp. half & half (or milk)
Directions:Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 5 bread pan.
In a skillet, cook apples, lemon juice, brown sugar, vanilla, butter, cinnamon & cornstarch until mixture is thickened. Set aside to cool.
Heat the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles; remove from heat. Add the butter and stir until melted; set aside.
Put flour, yeast, brown sugar and salt in a bowl, mix well.
Add the water, egg and milk/butter mixture.
Mix until dough forms into a ball; knead for an additional five minutes.
On a well floured surface, roll dough into a rectangle.
Evenly spread apple mixture over dough.
Cut dough into even squares (I got 20 from my dough).
Carefully stack pieces of dough onto each other forming four piles. (use a spatula, it makes stacking much easier!)
Place piles of dough into prepared pan.
Bake 45-50 minutes; until golden brown. Immediately remove from pan.
Mix butter, vanilla and powdered sugar into a bowl. Add half & half; stir until you get a creamy consistency.
Pour on glaze and allow to setup for a few minutes.
Pull some apart and enjoy!
That looks absolutely amazing!
Awesome! Thanks for your tip. I was able to find the individually packaged yeast – And my apple fritter bread is out in 20 minutes. Will keep you updated on how outstanding it is… Everything went very smoothly to say the least! (I am guilty of licking the spatula full of syrupy apple goodness though…)
Hi Batoriova….the pack of yeast that I used contained 2 1/4 tsp. It's found right in the flour aisle. I hope you enjoy the bread 🙂
Outstanding recipe! Cannot wait to make it this weekend. Just a quick question, how much yeast is precisely a "package" of yeast? I live in the Montreal area, and I don't think we might have same package contents. Thanks again and Great work 🙂
For what it's worth, I generally just measure out a tablespoon when directions say that 🙂 I keep a big tupperware of yeast and after a while it gets a little less effective so a tablespoon's not only easy, it's about right.
This is wonderful. So creative and pretty. I could eat this whole thing myself.