We love apple season! Other reader favorite apple recipes include our Easy Apple Oatmeal Muffins, The Most Amazing Apple Salad with Candied Walnuts and Poppy Seed Dressing, and Instant Pot Homemade Applesauce! Apple Fritter Yeast Bread makes the most amazing French toast and it’s excellent just toasted and slathered with butter. Or just eat a slice plain as an afternoon treat! Years ago, I discovered this amazing apple fritter bread that Target used to sell under their Archer Farms label. I loved that stuff so much that I decided I needed to recreate it at home. Hence, this recipe that tastes just like apple fritters! Except not deep fried! And in sliceable, toastable bread form! The problem with most apple fritter bread recipes that I have seen online is that they are all quick breads made without yeast and that’s not at all like what I was going for. Really those are closer to being like apple coffee cake, in my opinion, and even though totally delicious in it’s own right, it doesn’t really taste like apple fritters to me! So to avoid any confusion, I’m calling this Apple Fritter Yeast Bread so it’s clear that this is not a quick bread. This apple fritter yeast bread starts out with a slightly sweet, enriched dough that gets rolled out after rising. I use apple cider as part of the liquid in the dough itself, but if you don’t have it you could always sub in apple juice or even just water and it will turn out delicious. Then you spread an apple filling made while the dough rises over the dough and roll it up sort of like you would with cinnamon rolls. Except that the apple filling is very syrupy and runs everywhere. Especially once you start slicing the rolled dough into chunks like in the photos below. It makes a mess, but it’s the best way I’ve found to get even disbursement of apples and cinnamon in the dough and still have the loaf come out sliceable instead of more like a pull-apart loaf (which is also delicious, but again, not what I’m going for here – I want something I can stick in the toaster or dip in egg batter for French toast!). I just make sure before rolling out my dough that my work surface is totally clean, then once the rolled apple fritter yeast bread dough is cut into chunks, I scoop them up using my bench scraper and just dump them into prepared bread pans, syrup and all. The syrup gets absorbed into the bread as it bakes, making a wonderfully moist and sweet, cinnamon-spiced apple studded loaf! Remove the bread from their pans while still hot (a parchment paper sling really helps with this!) and glaze with the simple apple cider glaze while still hot. Then just try and wait for the loaf to cool entirely and the glaze to set before slicing into it. It’s super hard to resist, but slicing into hot bread is almost impossible to do without destroying the loaf. Which is why it’s nice that there are two loaves with this recipe – one to eat while still hot and you don’t care that you are butchering it and smooshing it to cut off slices while it’s still hot from the oven and the other to save for the next day! This is seriously one of the best things that comes out of my kitchen and the house smells like heaven on the days when I am baking apple fritter yeast bread. It’s not as simple as my Roasted Garlic & Rosemary No Knead Artisan Bread, but it’s definitely no harder than cinnamon rolls or pecan sticky buns. I really hope you try this one!
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