Author Notes: Apple cinnamon pull apart bread —Oh Sweet Day!
Makes: one loaf
Ingredients
BREAD
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2 1/4
teaspoons active yeast
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3/4
cup milk, warm to touch
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2
tablespoons sugar
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1
large egg
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1/4
cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
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1
teaspoon salt
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3
cups all purpose flour
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1/4
cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
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2
Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced
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1/2
cup brown sugar
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2
teaspoons ground cinnamon
ICING
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1
cup powdered sugar
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2
tablespoons heavy cream
Directions
- To prepare dough, combine yeast, milk and sugar in the bowl of a standing mixer. Let stand for 10 minutes.
- Whisk in egg, melted butter and salt.
- Attach dough hook to the standing mixer. Add half of the flour and mix on low speed until thorough combined.
- Add remaining flour and continue mixing until dough comes together. Increase speed to medium and knead until dough forms into a ball.
- Cover with tea towel and allow to rise for an hour.
- Roll dough to a large rectangle onto a floured surface. Brush another 1/2 stick of melted butter all over the dough.
- Mix together apple, brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl, and sprinkle the mixture all over the dough.
- Using a pizza cutter to cut the dough into 6 strips, then stack all the strips into one long stack. Cut the stack of strips into 6 small stacks. Place the stacks sideways into a greased loaf pan. Be sure not to cram the loaf pan, and leave space for the bread to expand.
- Cover the loaf pan with a tea towel and allow to rise for another hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Bake the bread for 40 minutes. Cover the top of the bread with aluminium foil about halfway through if it is browning too quickly.
- Remove pan from the oven. Allow to cool for about 10 minutes on a wire rack. Run a knife alone the edges to release the bread from the pan.
- Mix together the icing ingredients and drizzle over the top when the bread is still warm. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Photo by Oh Sweet Day!