Apple Butter Bran Bread Food

APPLE BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Do not forget this part because bread is not easy to get out unless you prepare the pan.
• Add all dry ingredients - all purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl and mix well. Set bowl aside.
• Now, in a separate bowl, add we ingredients - sugar, oil and eggs to a mixing bowl and mix well.
• Add milk and apple butter into wet ingredient bowl and mix well.
• Fold in flour ingredients and mix just until batter combined (do not over mix).
• Pour apple butter bread batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Its important to note that all ovens are a bit different, so start watching around the 45-50 minute mark and every 5 minutes after. Some times bread comes out without batter on the toothpick but a bit of bread, and that is when I pull it.
• Let bread cool ENTIRELY before removing from pan and slicing to serve.
• Wrap in plastic cling wrap and then foil around that to keep moist and ready to serve. Leave on counter (not in fridge)

BREAKFAST APPLE BRAN LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan or line it with parchment paper.
• Into a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs and buttermilk and whisk well to combine. Add the grated apple, melted butter and vanilla and stir to mix. Add the bran cereal and let it sit for 5 minutes to absorb liquid.
• While you're waiting, in another bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Combine the all purpose flour, oat bran, cane sugar, muscavado, pecans, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir to mix. Add the wet ingredients in with the dry and stir just to combine, do not overmix.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, it should come up no more than 3/4 way up the pan. Sprinkle the top of the loaf with a handful of oat bran and brown or turbinado sugar. Bake on the middle rack for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Allow it to cool completely before removing it from the pan.
• Slice with a serrated knife and serve with butter on the side.
• Loaf can be kept covered at room temperature for 3 days or for 5 days in the fridge.

APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a skillet, saute apples in butter until tender, about 10 minutes. Combine cereal and water in a large bowl; stir in buttermilk, eggs, sugar, raisins and apples with butter. Combine dry ingredients; stir into apple mixture just until moistened. Refrigerate in a tightly covered container for at least 24 hours (batter will be very thick). Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 400° for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

APPLE BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 8x4x2-inch loaf pan.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl.
• Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl until smooth. Add the egg and apple butter; continue beating until smooth. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the raisins and walnuts; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

APPLE-RAISIN BRAN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease 9x5x3 inch loaf pan.
• Combine raisin bran cereal, milk, applesauce, eggs and vanilla. Let stand for 10 minutes.
• Stir to break up cereal. Stir in apples and walnuts.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
• Add cereal mixture all at once to flour mixture and stir just until moistened.
• Spread evenly in prepared pan.
• Bake 60 to 65 minutes or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.

APPLE BUTTER QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees, and lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt to combine. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk the oil, sugar and brown sugar until well combined (you may need to switch to a rubber spatula after a bit). Add the eggs one at a time and whisk well after each addition to incorporate. Whisk in the vanilla extract.
• Add the flour mixture and stir just to combine. Add the apple butter and yogurt and mix well to incorporate. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread into an even layer.
• Sprinkle the surface of the loaf generously with turbinado sugar. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool for 20 minutes in the pan, then unmold onto a cooling rack to cool completely before slicing and serving.

APPLE BRAN MUFFINS WITH APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Grease a large muffin tin (I use my "Texas" sized muffin pan).
• In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cinnamon and mix to blend.
• In another bowl add wheat bran and milk and blend well.
• Then to the bran mixture add eggs, apple butter and 2 tbsp oil and mix to blend.
• Let bran mixture sit 5-10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, peel, core and shred the apples.
• Squeeze out any excess moisture from apples with your hands.
• Add shredded apples to the bran mixture and mix well to blend.
• Add wheat bran mixture to flour mixture and stir to blend (batter will be thick).
• Spoon batter into muffin cups evenly.
• Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until they just begin to brown and test done with a toothpick.
• Cool muffins in pan on a wire rack 5-10 minutes.
• Remove muffins from muffin pan and cool completely.
• *** Preparation time includes preparing the apples. You can make 12 standard size muffins instead of six large but you'll need to reduce baking time to approximately 15-20 minutes or until they test done.

APPLE BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine the apple butter, cinnamon and cloves.
• Whisk in the water, then oil, then brown sugar, then the eggs (not all together). Mix until smooth.
• Sift together (important so you don't get white lumps in your dark bread), flour, baking soda and salt. Then combine with the apple butter mixture and mix until smooth.
• Pour into a greased 9-inch loaf pan or 3 to 4 mini-loaf pans.
• Bake at 350F for 65-70 minutes for the 9-inch pan or 45-50 minutes for the mini-loaves.
• Let stand for 10-15 minutes to cool slightly before removing from the pans and letting cool completely on a wire rack.