Every once in a blue moon, I’ll make a recipe that completely blows my socks off. This was one of those times! Can’t you tell just by looking at the first photo?
I’m so glad that spring break is over. Working flights during that time means complete chaos with all of the kids traveling. I worked a flight to Washington D.C. two weeks ago that had 100 middle school kids and not nearly enough chaperones. We ran out of Sprite, Coke, Gingerale, Coke Zero, Sprite Zero, all of our juices, and Seltzer. I’ve NEVER run out of soda on any flight until now! Those kids made us work the entire flight. I was exhausted.
Middle school kids are at the awkward stage in their lives where everyone’s trying to fit in, but no one knows what they’re supposed to do. All the boys are trying to get the girls’ attentions while the girls are trying to get in the “coolest” group. I already told my DH that whenever we have kids, they’re all his the moment they hit their tween/teenager stage. That’s by far the hardest age to deal with!
I did receive the strangest compliment while working that flight, though. One of the girls reached out to me after I gave her her apple juice and said, “This is going to sound really weird, but I think you have beautiful hands! You should be a hand model or something!”
So that was sweet. Pretty much the only sweet thing to happen during that 5 1/2 hour flight.
Let’s talk about this apple fritter bread, shall we? The apple layer in the middle gives just the right amount of apple without being overboard. The bread alone would have even been great. It’s a great base for anything you feel like experimenting with. Don’t have apples on hand? Try peaches or pear!
The top is what did me in. It does taste like a fritter without any frying involved. That’s a magical thing, if you ask me. Recipe from Rumbly Tumbly.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2/3 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk (I used almond milk)
- 1 apple, peeled and chopped, mixed with 1 T granulated sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup of powdered sugar + 1-3 tablespoons of milk or cream, mixed together to a drizzling consistency
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Set aside.
- Cream together the white sugar and butter. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract.
- Gradually stir in the flour and baking powder. Mix milk into batter until smooth.
- Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf pan; add half the apples and half the brown sugar mixture.
- Pour the remaining batter over apple layer; top with remaining apples and brown sugar mixture.
- Swirl brown sugar mixture through apples using a knife.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool for 15 minutes before drizzling with glaze.
