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!
What a fun recipe! I am totally loving it. I'll definitely have to give this a try. Perfect for Fall! Pinning and sharing on FB, G+ and Twitter. Thanks for sharing at Marvelous Mondays!
Okay I was craving for apple fritters and saw this and now . . . I'm totally going to make this tomorrow !! THANKS soooo much. I LOVE APPLE FRITTERS !!! but this is way better cuz there is no deep fryin!
This looks so amazingly good! I just pinned it for a rainy day project – I need to make this!
Got some apples on Sunday so this recipe is a perfect addition to my apple recipes that I do have. It's also very yummy, thanks.
Yum! Thanks for sharing. I made this last weekend for our weekly "Muffin Monday" – like a mini, one-person bake sale each Monday among the Elementary staff, we pay for the snacks and send the money to a local orphanage 🙂 I cut the sugar in half in both the dough and apples and felt it was sweet enough; next time I'm going to try letting the dough rise once before rolling it out to see if that affects the texture. It was amazingly quick and freeing though to just knead it and then roll it out – I've never seen a yeast recipe like this before! Thank you for sharing your recipe. Everyone enjoyed it.
I'm so happy to hear that everyone enjoyed the bread! Thank you for the sweet comment 🙂