This easy and scrumptious Apple Bread is the right lightened-up fall baking recipe to fulfill your style buds and make your kitchen scent superb. Excellent to serve for breakfast, brunch, as a snack, or as a tasty potluck crowd-pleaser! The bread is moist and fluffy and filled with autumn spices and candy, juicy chunks of apple. Though this recipe makes use of much less sugar than lots of the comparable recipes on the market, I believe you’ll discover it’s simply candy sufficient! Every slice of Apple Bread is simply 120 energy or 4 WW Factors on the present Weight Watchers program (or 5 Factors if following the diabetic WW program)! I like that I virtually all the time have all of the components to make this recipe available in my kitchen and it’s really easy to make you can also make Apple Bread everytime you’re within the temper! To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app or website, click on right here!
Ingredient Notes
- Apples: I actually assume any crisp, crunchy apple that’s beneficial for baking will probably be scrumptious on this bread. Honeycrisp, Fuji, Empire, Jonagold, Cortland, Braeburn, and Granny Smith are all good for baking. I often use Empire or Honeycrisp as a result of these are additionally the varieties I often have available for consuming!
- Various Sweeteners: I haven’t personally tried making this utilizing a zero-calorie sweetener rather than sugar, however I really feel assured that it will work out simply positive. Simply be certain that the sweetener you’re utilizing has a 1:1 substitution ratio with sugar in order that the sweetness degree isn’t off.
- Add-Ins: I believe walnuts or pecans can be nice on this in case you’d like so as to add nuts! Raisins is also a tasty addition. Remember that both of those add-ins will in fact have an effect on the diet data/WW factors listed in case you’re monitoring both.
Storage Ideas:
You’ll be able to retailer this Apple Bread by putting it on a paper towel in an hermetic container and leaving it on the counter for 4-5 days, or by placing the container within the fridge.
To Freeze:
I like how simply this Apple Bread comes collectively, and it’s nice to bake as soon as and eat for a couple of days straight! You can too freeze it by simply wrapping the loaf or particular person slices in plastic wrap as soon as they’re utterly cool and placing them in a freezer bag. You’ll be able to both defrost them to room temp or warmth them up within the microwave earlier than consuming.
Need simpler, tasty, lightened up baked items?
Searching for extra tasty sorts of lightened up muffin and fast bread recipes? Take a look at my Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins, Carrot Cake Bread with Cream Cheese Glaze, Blueberry Bread, Banana Zucchini Muffins, Pineapple Upside Down Baked Oatmeal Singles, Morning Glory Muffins, Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins, Carrot Muffins, Chocolate Raspberry Muffins, Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Banana Blueberry Muffins, Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins, and extra within the Muffins part of my recipe index!
Apple Bread
This easy and scrumptious Apple Bread is the right lightened-up fall baking recipe to fulfill your cravings and make your kitchen scent superb!
- 1 massive egg
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons gentle butter, melted (I exploit Land O’Lakes gentle butter unfold with canola oil within the tub)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon floor cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon floor cloves
- 1 ½ cups peeled and chopped apple
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Pre-heat the oven to 350 levels. Mist a 9” x 5” loaf pan with cooking spray and put aside.
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In a big mixing bowl, add the egg, applesauce, sugar, and vanilla extract and stir collectively till properly mixed. Add the melted butter and stir collectively.
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In a separate mixing bowl, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves and whisk till mixed. Add the dry components to the moist components and stir collectively till simply mixed right into a batter. Stir the chopped apples into the batter till mixed.
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Pour the batter into the ready loaf pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes till a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clear.
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Switch the bread within the loaf pan to a wire cooling rack and funky within the pan for 10 minutes. After the ten minutes, invert the pan to launch the bread onto the cooling rack after which flip it over in order that it’s proper aspect up. Permit the bread to relaxation immediately on the rack till cool. As soon as the bread is cool, slice the loaf into 12 (3/4” thick) slices.
WW Factors per slice: 4* (SP calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
*5 Factors per slice if following the diabetic WW plan
Vitamin Info per (1 slice) serving:
120 energy, 22 g carbs, 9 g sugars, 2 g fats, 1 g saturated fats, 2 g protein, 1 g fiber, 183 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
2 per (1 slice) serving (P+ calculated utilizing the recipe builder within the WW app)
