Easy apple bread

Happy Monday and happy first day of October! It’s in the 80s here today, so I’m ready for fall. I’m also ready for fall baking. Y’all may be in “pumpkin spice everything” season, but I am firmly on team apple. I recently grabbed a bag of apples at the grocery store and headed to my cookbook shelf to find some yummy apple recipes. I found this apple bread recipe in one of the many seasonal baking magazines I own. All I have to say if yum.

This recipe uses shredded apple and is a tasty, crumbly, perfectly sweet (but not too sweet) treat. The batter comes together pretty quickly once you shred the apples, though the bread bakes for about an hour. I was so excited to try the apple bread that I didn’t let it cool fully and it fell apart. As a huge fan of bread and butter, I slathered a few every slice with Kerrygold butter (not sponsored and also a huge fan). This apple bread recipe would be great as a side with breakfast or brunch, on its own as a snack, or even as dessert. I considered trying to make bread pudding or French toast, but the loaf didn’t last long enough to make anything else.

The original apple bread recipe calls for nuts and raisins in the batter and to top it with a nut streusel. Full confession: I left out the nuts, raisins, and streusel because I was feeling lazy. I didn’t miss them, and I have included the amounts of those in the recipe if you would like to try them.