Description
My friends and family ask me for this all the time. I find apple fritters at a coffee shop are nothing but sugar and give me a toothache just thinking about it, but this recipe is delicious and not too sweet! Try it and let me know how it turns out.
Ingredients
- nonstick cooking spray
- 2 medium apples – peeled, cored, and chopped
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ⅔ cup white sugar
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract, or more to taste
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk, or more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Combine apples
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- and 1 teaspoon cinnamon together in a bowl; mix until coated. Mix brown sugar and remaining cinnamon in a second bowl. Whisk flour and baking powder together in a third bowl. Set aside.
- Mix remaining white sugar and butter together in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs
- 1 at a time
- until blended in. Add vanilla extract. Stir in flour mixture until smooth. Add milk and mix until smooth.
- Pour about 1/2 of the batter mixture into the prepared loaf pan. Add 1/2 half of the apple mixture
- and lightly press the apples into the batter. Sprinkle 1/2 of the brown sugar mixture onto the apples. Pour the remaining batter into the pan
- add the remaining apples
- and brown sugar mix. Press the apples lightly into the top batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes.
- While loaf cools
- pour confectioners’ sugar into a bowl and slowly add in milk. Stir until completely mixed
- adding more milk if you want your glaze thinner. Drizzle onto the cooled loaf.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Servings: 12