Apple Bread

So this is the Apple Bread I mentioned before the one that I had to make a giant loaf instead of two 8 inch loafs. It is a beast. It's also delicious. It took me about an hour to bake it. Anyway it qualifies as a success so as promised here is the recipe.


Beastly Apple Bread
3 cups flour (all-purpose)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
Add these things together and ignore them. 

1/2 cup (maybe a little more) criss cross applesauce
2 medium/largeish apples
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 beaten eggs (by beaten I mean just kind of scramble them before you put them in)
1/2 tsp vanilla (I never ever use imitation because it costs more but real vanilla is amazing and you will taste a difference)
1 cup of nuts (I wanted to use Pecans but my S.O. convinced me to use walnuts)

Go ahead and preheat your oven to 350.  Add these things and then add them to the flour mix that you were ignoring. Get them to play nice and stick all together. Well grease a 9 inch bread pan. If you want you could grease up two 8 inch pans and make smaller loaves. Some of us don't have 8 inch bread pans anymore. For greasing I use Pam for baking. It smells nice because it has flour in it and I have had tremendous success with the stuff. Put your batter into the oven and bake for 45 minutes test it with a toothpick (or a bamboo skewer if you are like me). I had to bake my bread for a full hour if not a little more.  Depending on the size of your pan it might be done in 45 minutes but I will let you be the judge on that.


The secrets of removing baked goods from a pan. After you have covered your pan in grease and then baked it comes the moment of anxiety. Right now you are looking at your Beastly Apple Bread and thinking "wow it's beautiful I am awesome". Well you are but, now comes the moment of truth all of your hard work that took you an hour and a half to do could come crashing down and ruin your hard work. I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen to you.

The trick 
When you take your read out of the oven place the pan on a wire rack and leave it alone for 10 minutes. Don't touch it. Don't do anything to it! It needs sometime to cool down it's had a hard day being created and all. 
After it's had sometime to cool off place a plate on top of it. Flip it over. Pull off the pan. Now take another plate repeat the previous flip action. It's now beautiful, happy and hopefully in one piece. 

Enjoy it.