MUFFINS, YOU MAY HAVE MET YOUR MATCH. My mother-in-law sent us home from a recent Florida visit with a bread making machine, and boy have we been baking. I know it’s very 1996 to say it but, I love making bread in this thing! All you do is dump in ingredients, then wait. Um, I can do that! (And my favorite is watching Phoebe climb up on the counter to peek into the tiny window of the thing, “watching” it all happen.) We’ve experimented a lot and come up with a favorite: whole wheat apple bread. Toasted with butter? Heavenly.
Like most freshly baked things, the bread is very best on the first day. You could easily make sandwiches with it. So I might make a smaller loaf next time, expecting to zip through it–OR freeze the leftovers for late in the week instead.
Our recipe is an update of one that came from Paul’s mom who copied out of a book by bread-machine guru, Donna German. As I’ve buy valtrex online safely scoured the internet for go-to bread recipes, I’ve discovered that it all seems to depend on your individual bread maker, but this is what I do now, and we love it every time.
HOMEMADE WHOLE WHEAT APPLE BREAD
My machine is the kind where you add water or liquids first, then dry ingredients then yeast. Some work in the reverse order, but I’m positive that you should never, ever mix your yeast with the liquid unless your recipe specifies to do so.
This makes a medium loaf, or 1.5 size loaf, which reminds of the french baguette loaf I always get at my favorite bakery.
ingredients
- 1 cup apple juice or apple cider, preferably organic
- 1/4 cup organic applesauce, unsweetened
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cups whole oats (not quick cooking)
- 1 packet active yeast
instructions
Pour everything into the bread machine and bake on either “whole wheat” or “light” setting. Mine takes 3 hours and makes the whole house smell amazing.
This post is part of Wow Me Wednesday, Whole Food Wednesday, Your Whims Wednesday and What I Whipped Up Wednesday.
This looks delicious! I think I’ll make it this week. Any ideas at to what temp in the oven I can bake this at? I don’t have a bread maker.
Hi Stephanie! Thanks for coming to Foodlets. I asked my mother in law, who never bakes her bread in the machine. Here’s her input:
So, I think you could put everything together, kneed it yourself and allow to rise. Then use her instructions for baking in the oven. Hope it works, and let us know!
I was excited about your apple bread…but we (read husband) are sticklers for the traditional loaves, so I went for apple muffins instead. My kidlet loved it! I used apple sauce and apple syrup as my sweeteners (we have a great local spot that makes both), went whole wheat with yogurt as my fat. They were a perfect snack! Thanks for the idea.
We made muffins too, “apple cupcakes” as my daughter calls them. Added olive oil and one egg and doubled the apple sauce, topped with a low-sugar peanut butter buttercream and raisins for “sprinkles” – nom nom!!!!!
Wow, those do sound delicious!! Thanks for the idea. Peanut butter buttercream? I’m trying that immediately!
Hi, I am dying to bake your apple bread. I live in South Africa, and our measurements here are different. Im not to sure what your packet of yeast weighs or measures compared to mine. Could you please tell me how many teaspoons it is. Our packet of yeast is 10g.
Cant wait, thanks Marion
Hi Marion — I looked up the conversion online and saw that 10g = 2 teaspoons which is approximately the amount of yeast in a packet in the US. Sometimes the US packets measure 2 1/4 teaspoons but I think it would be fine. Good luck!