Celebrate the season with this recipe for Cinnamon Apple Cider Bread! It's so delicious and makes the house smell wonderful. I make it with store bought apple cider, but one of these days I'm going to try it with homemade. But honestly, the inexpensive store bought kind works just fine. You could probably even make cider bread with apple juice, though I haven't tried that yet.
This is the best cider bread recipe I've tried, and it definitely makes the house smell like fall. The recipe calls for 2 full cups of cider and 2 cups of apples and makes 2 full size loaves. As you can see, I put some walnuts on the top of this loaf, but if you don't have nuts just leave them of because the bread doesn't really need them.
And finally, if you don't need two loaves of apple cider bread the recipe is easy to halve. To halve an egg, crack it into a little cup and measure out 2 tablespoons.
On a different note, if you are looking for another recipe that will make your house smell good, check out this recipe for Spicy Dark Gingerbread! Or why not make them both?
Recipe
Cinnamon Apple Cider Bread
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour** (18 oz/500 grams)
- 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 8 oz unsalted butter, softened (228 grams)
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar (250 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups apple cider
- 2 cups chopped apples peeled
Topping
- Walnuts
- ¼ cup sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg and scraping the bowl often.
- Using a heavy dutyscraper or a mixing spoon, add flour mixture to egg mixture, alternating with the apple cider. Stir in the chopped apples.
- Divide the batter between the prepared loaf pans and spread it evenly in the pan. Sprinkle with walnuts (if using).
- Mix together the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the batter.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes for or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Sue K says
I forgot about this recipe. I wish I would have thought of it this week. I actually bought some Apple Cider bread at a store this week. It was good but I’m sure this would have been much better.
Anna says
Great idea to boil down the cider!
Scott says
This came out amazing. We used unpasteurized cider and boiled it down to make it stronger
Anna says
Thanks for trying it, Lani!
Lani says
This was absolutely fabulous! I gave the extra loaf to a neighbor with the recipe and my son (and me) finished the other loaf in a day. It was just too irresistible!
Anna says
You could, but you'd have to alter all the other ingredients in the recipe. I haven't tested it yet with almond flour, but if you try it let me know!
Diane says
Hi Anna, can I use Almond flour instead of all-purpose flour?
Anna says
Hooray! Hope you like it. The loaves stay fresh for a while.
C L says
Finally got to make this tonight. I made 1 loaf and 6 jumbo muffins. I can hardly wait for the muffins to cool. The loaf will be going in the freezer. The house smells so good right now! 🙂
Mela says
Hi Anna, I baked this today and it's really delicious! Kept 1 in the freezer for future cravings. Thank you.
Anna says
Thanks for trying it, Therese!
Therese says
I made this bread and it was so good!! And my kitchen smelled divine!
Sonya says
Mmmmmmmm, one of my favorite types if recipes! Now I'm curious to do a taste test of something made with Martinellis apple cider (the cloudy one) vs farmers market unpasteurized cider and see if one could taste the difference.
Anna says
Cindy, yes -- it was the kind sold in the juice aisle. The bread was grea, but might have been even better with better cider
C L says
I need to make this, no doubt. Some folks go crazy for pumpkin in Autumn, apples are my weakness. I can hardly wait until a local orchard starts selling fresh cider. This apple bread is now on my "make very soon" list 🙂
CindyD says
So you used pasteurized cider? I can't stand the stuff to drink but it might work in baking.
Anna says
I used some very inexpensive apple cider which was more like apple juice, but labeled as cider. I'm fairly certain apple juice would be just fine. As for the fizzy cider, that would probably work so long as you let it go flat before measuring.
Yvonne says
I receive a ah of cooking apples this week, maybe bread is the answer. I'm guessing though you mean american flat cider, not European fizzy alcoholic stuff. Should I try it with hard cider, or maybe sub a cloudy aple juice?