For many years, my family has used this recipe. I can recall the delicious aroma of baking cookies filling the entire home. Now, my sons and I continue the custom each Christmas. Enjoy them, I hope.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 25 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9×5-inch loaf |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups applesauce
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅓ cup chopped dried apples
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Beat the butter and brown sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the first egg, allowing it to blend into the butter mixture before adding the other. Blend the applesauce and 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon into the mixture. Pour the flour mixture into the butter mixture, mixing until just incorporated. Fold in the dried apple pieces; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Pour the batter into prepared pan. Stir 1 teaspoon cinnamon and the white sugar together in a small bowl; sprinkle over the batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pan 10 to 15 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 216 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 51 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 278 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made as muffins. Used 2/3 cup dried apples. All I had on hand was sweetened applesauce. Cut sugar to 1/2 cup. Only used 1.5 cups applesauce. Added 1T applecider vinegar. Great flavor and texture. Got 20 muffins. About 150 calories apiece. . next time I will add walnuts and raisens .
Made it as written and then used half brown sugar half white. Preferred the half brown sugar cake. I used a bundt pan and it was cooked to perfection in 90 mins at 300. When I bake thick batter cakes I find the out crust can be too dark. 300 was perfectly baked. Will definitely make again.
After I made this the first time, it was so well liked that I made it again the next day, and then again for my husband to take to work. I ran out of oil, so I substituted a stick of butter (melted) and half a cup of sour cream. It turned out perfectly!
I loved this bread! I made mine with 1/2 brown and 1/2 regular sugar and it smelled amazing! I’ll definitely make this again!
with the few changes that other reviewers made like 1/2 white and 1/2 brown sugar as well as 2 teaspoon of vanilla and extra cinnamon which is my family’s personal preference it was delicious. I used honey crisp apples which really cook up well.
Substituted applesauce for oil. 3/4 cup of applesauce instead of 1cup of oil. This changes the bake time to 80 minutes. Bread came out moist not wet. I used fresh apples it makes all the difference.
Made it with a few changes to make it more diabetic friendly for my husband all and all it is a great recipe
This turned out to be a nice, moist apple bread. I loved the burst of flavor as you’re eating this from the dried apples.
one of the best dried apple recipes i have tried!!
I had excess dried apples so this sounded perect……I just didn’t like the taste and when brought in to the office only a few slices were taken which is usually not the case of baked good I bring in. Sorry, hopefully it will work for others:)