Healthy Apple Cinnamon Bread

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Bread — a cross between moist apple cake and banana bread. Made with a mixture of gluten free flour, honey, and juicy apples. The perfect healthy fall recipe!

Yep. Sign me up for making this healthy apple cinnamon bread for the rest of my life.

I like to call this bread a happy accident, a good mistake, a successful experiment. I went to make my standard cinnamon roll banana bread and then saw some of the apples that I had sitting on the counter.

I instantly started thinking about how I could use them that day because we were leaving for vacation and then it came to me that I needed to add them to this bread.

A healthy apple cinnamon bread. A beautiful marriage between apple cake and banana bread, but with cinnamon and so much goodness. Doesn’t that sound pretty good to you?

I brought the first rendition over to my girlfriends when we were all hanging out a few weeks ago, and even though there were plenty of things that I wanted to tweak with it, they all raved about it.

So I knew I had to make it again until I got it perfect, because no matter what, I always feel better when I feel 100% confident in a recipe, instead of just 75% confident.

So now that it is officially fall and the weather is really starting to turn, and the leaves are changing colors, nothing really screams autumn than a comforting loaf of warm apple bread.

Made with some of nature’s best ingredients because that’s what we do here over at Erin Lives Whole.

Natural, good for you, satisfying, nutrient dense.

So go ahead and make this bread and eat it for breakfast, top it with cinnamon sugar apples for an added punch, pack it up for your afternoon snack or even throw a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top for dessert. That sounds pretty perfect to me.

Move aside pumpkin bread, healthy apple cinnamon bread is here!

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Healthy Apple Cinnamon Bread

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Bread — a cross between moist apple cake and banana bread. Made with a mixture of gluten free flour, honey, and juicy apples. The perfect healthy fall recipe!

Prep: 20Cook: 40Total: 1 hour

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Ingredients

BREAD

• 2 cups gluten-free flour (I used Bob’s Red Mill GF all purpose baking)
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 overripe large bananas, mashed (or 3 medium bananas)
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs, room temperature

MIDDLE CINNAMON LAYER

• 1/2 cup coconut sugar
• 3 Tbsp. melted coconut oil
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

For the topping, mix half of above cinnamon sugar mixture with 1 cup finely chopped apples (I used one Gala + one Granny Smith).

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
3. In a large bowl, add mashed bananas, honey, oil, and vanilla. Stir to combine.
4. Whisk in two eggs.
5. Fold dry ingredients into wet, stirring until completely combined.
6. Pour half of batter into greased bread loaf pan.
7. In a small bowl, mix coconut sugar, coconut oil, and cinnamon with a fork.
8. Sprinkle half of cinnamon sugar mixture on first half batter.
9. Pour remaining half of batter on top.
10. Add apples to cinnamon sugar mixture and toss to coat.
11. Sprinkle apple cinnamon sugar mixture on top.
12. Bake in 350F oven for 40-44 minutes – using a toothpick to test. I took mine out at 40 minutes and it was done.

Author: ErinCategory: gluten-free, breakfast, snack, dairy-free