Because this dish includes potatoes, you can stretch one pound of meat to feed six people despite the rising cost of cattle. Your preferred toppings, such as salsa, sour cream, guacamole, pickled jalapeño rings, and cilantro, can be added on top.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 (8×4-inch) loaf |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ⅓ cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ¼ cups apple butter
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8×4-inch loaf pan.
- Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl until smooth. Add egg and apple butter; continue beating until smooth. Mix in flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in raisins and walnuts, mixing just enough to evenly combine. Pour into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 411 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 70 g |
| Cholesterol | 44 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 365 mg |
| Sugars | 46 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Both my hubby and I loved this bread! It’s not too sweet, it’s super super moist, and you can really taste the apple butter! I followed the recipe to a “T”, using homemade apple butter. My only issue with it is that it took a lot longer to bake–about 65 minutes or so. That’s not a huge deal, however. I would absolutely make this again! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!
I used a combination of apple butter and pumpkin butter. I made then into muffins and they had a nice caramelized crust on top.
I realized once I started that I didn’t have cloves or nutmeg (oh the shame). So I improvised with allspice, cinnamon and ginger. My family loved it. What I’m saying is this recipe is versatile.
Easy and very good.
Outstanding! Only change I made was I did not add raisins and put extra walnuts in it. Very moist and my family loved it!
We loved this bread. It is a perfect flavor for fall but I will make it year round! Just two of us have eaten over half the loaf in one day.
It was so easy and good! I made applesauce first and just used that in the recipe. I’ve made several loaves already and everyone I shared with has loved it
Dad and mom loved, loved, loved this. Will definitely keep this recipe. Super easy to make, moist and delicious. Thank you.
I made muffins. this recipe made 18 and my dad and I ate all but one! very good!
I added half a teaspoon of almond extract to this and it was transformative. I wouldn’t add more than that — almond extract is powerful stuff, and more than half a teaspoon could turn this loaf into an almond bomb.
I have a lot of homemade pear butter on hand, and I’ve been looking for recipes to use it up. This worked great, which is fortunate because I went right ahead with a double batch for the first attempt! I replaced the apple butter with my pear butter of course, skipped the spices because my pear butter is quite heavily spiced, halved the sugar, and didn’t have any walnuts so left those out this time. Baked in muffin pans, and they were done in about 20 minutes. Absolutely delicious, and I will be making again.
We made 16 muffins. I thought overall the recipe was a bit on the sweet side but they had a nice flavor. The also did not rise much at all.
I just made a loaf and I’m very impressed, I’ve added dates instead of raisins because I had none. Succulent anyhow but I will definitely try with raisins next time for a classic taste.
Yes I will make it again had homemade apple butter with spices and sugar in the apple butter. Did add any more sugar. The bread was delicious.
This is a moist delicious bread – made with my homemade apple butter -will try next time with a commercial brand to see difference – highly recommend!
Delicious! I made this exactly as the recipe stated. Easy to make and a wonderful fall flavour.
Great bread in both flavor and texture. Did not use optional walnuts and replaced a half cup of the sugar with honey.
Wonderful. Easy to make.
Just made some homemade applebutter and saw this recipe,had to make it and it was a Major hit with everyone.I kept 2 slices for me,almost didn’t get any.Will diffently make this again. Ps topped with leftover cream cheese frosting and boy was it even better. I am Gluten Free so I made this with GF Flour and it came out very moist
only changes I made different; is boil my raisins first
I did make it with white all wheat flour but it still turned out great! I also plumped up my golden raisins . I will definitely make this again.