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Cinnamon Apple Pull-Apart Bread Recipe – yeast bread, stuffed with cinnamon and diced apple. One of my favorite baked treats for fall.
Didn’t I just post a pull-apart bread recipe? I sure did! And this is almost the same recipe, with slight modifications, no pumpkin puree and I added apple pieces. It turned out delicious!
I wasn’t planning on definitely posting almost the same recipe in a week, but my apologies, I did not include step-by-step photos of the process making the pumpkin pull apart bread. They accidentally got deleted. And I needed to retake the pictures.
So I thought, why not share my apple pull apart bread recipe, since the process is exactly the same. This way you guys get a new recipe with step-by-step pictures which could be used for both.
At first, I thought I would make this with apple butter, but tiny pieces of apple are a great option, too!
The dough is quick and easy to make. It requires about 1 hour of rising time, before you cut it and place it in the baking pan and then 30 more minutes. I used active dry yeast.
If you love apple baked goods, this recipe is a must try!
It is almost like a fusion between apple pie and warm cinnamon rolls!
Hope the pictures help you with the process.
CINNAMON APPLE PULL-APART BREAD RECIPE
Ingredients
For the bread:
- 3/4 cup warm milk, (around 115 F)
- 1 pkg. active dry yeast
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
For the filling:
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 large apple, , diced
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
For the glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Combine milk and yeast, stir and cover. Let mixture stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, untill is gets foamy.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer beat egg and sugar. Add 3 tbsp melted butter. Add yeast/milk mixture. Beat to combine. Add salt to the flour. Add half of the flour and beat for 30 seconds. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl. Beat for 3 more minutes.
- Add the remaining flour, knead to form the dough into a ball.
- Transfer to a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let it rise at room temperature, until it almost doubles its size.
- Butter a 9x5 inch bread pan.
- Flour working surface. Roll out dough into 20x12 inch rectangle.
- In a bowl combine brown sugar and cinnamon. Have diced apple ready.
- Brush dough with melted butter. Sprinkle with brown sugar/cinnamon mixture. Spread diced apple on top.
- Cut dough into six 20x2 inch pieces, as shown in the pictures. Stack pieces on top of each other. As they are, cut into six strips vertically, as shown in the pictures.
- Loosely stack pieces, cut side up into the pan. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- In the mean time, preheat oven to 350 F.
- Bake bread for 35 minutes, covering the top with aluminium foil for the last 10 minutes.
- Let the bread cool inside the pan for 15 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- In a bowl, combine all ingredients for the glaze and mix to combine. Add more milk to adjust the consistency, if needed.
- Once the bread has cooled, drizzle with cinnamon glaze. Serve.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Thanks for this awesome recipe. Everything about it was easy. My biggest problem was being home alone and eating 1/2 the loaf myself. Haha. Thank you for sharing. It’s always so exciting to find something good.
Thanks Brigit! Glad you liked it! I totally understand, I ate like half of it, too! It was soo good, while still warm 🙂
I have a ton of freshly picked apples right now so this would be perfect! So delicious looking.
Love pull apart breads, but never realized how easy to make they are!
If I make this bread and leave it in the fridge overnight, can I take it out and bake it in the morning?
Hi, no, because there is yeast in it. It may work, but sometimes yeast breads rise too much and it may ferment in the fridge, so the bread will have a weird taste. It may still work because the fridge might slow the rising, but I have not tried it with this particular bread and I can not recommend it.
Can this be frozen when baked?
This looks awesome
Yes, you can definitely freeze it for up to 3 months, just make sure you wrap it tightly. Thank you 🙂 Hope you like it!
I made this. Overall, I’m very proud of the result and thankful for the accessible recipe with easy to source ingredients.  However, I found the dimensions and cutting instructions to be a little off; there was no way I was getting this to be a 20X12 rectangle. The pictures helped me even though they looked different from the written steps.  Also the total time is waaaay off. From start to finish with an hour for rising, it took about 2 hrs.  But in the end… delicious. I would have never attempted this type of bread before, and the recipe led to a delicious end result. I’ll b making this again.Â
You forgot to state when you add the salt.
Making this for breakfast today for my daughter’s sleep over.
Hope you like it! Salt is added to the flour, will correct. Thanks!
still haven t made the correction… I forgot the salt   :/
HI Mira,
I would like to make your Apple Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread but the print button isn’t working.
It’ looks so good!
Hugs, Teresa
Hi Teresa, I just tried it and it is working for me. Could there be something blocking it on your browser? Let me know. Or maybe try a different browser.
Delicious! I made a “version” of this. I cheated and used store bought bread dough and rolled it in a log form then divided it. Easy to make and good!
I made this for the first time yesterday, I gave half of the loaf to my neighbor. It got rave reviews!! I love it so much, I am making another one today for my daughter. The recipe was very easy to follow and is delicious! I make the dough in my bread machine, let it rise, then I cut and place in the bread pan ?? Thank you for this, it’s a keeper!
Blessings,
Sheryl
Great! Glad you liked it! I’m actually enjoying a slice of it tight now 🙂