Praline Apple Bread Southern Living Food

PRALINE-TOPPED APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, beat sugar, sour cream, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Stir into flour mixture just until moistened. Fold in apples and 1 cup pecans., Transfer to a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small saucepan, combine butter and brown sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar; boil 1 minute. Working quickly, pour over bread. Sprinkle with remaining pecans; let stand until set.

PRALINE-APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 1/2 cups pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 6-8 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring after 4 minutes.
• Beat sour cream and next 3 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer 2 minutes or until blended.
• Stir together flour and next 3 ingredients. Add to sour cream mixture, beating just until blended. Stir in apples and 1/2 cup toated pecans. Spoon batter into a greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pan. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup chopped pecans; lightly press pecans into the batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean, shielding with aluminum foil after 50 minutes to prevent excessive browning. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack.
• Bring butter and brown sugar to a boil in a 1 quart heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly; boil 1 minute. Remove from heat and spoon over top of bread; let cool completely (about 1 hour).

PRALINE APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Using an electric mixer on low speed, beat together the granulated sugar, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla until combined; raise speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, nutmeg, baking powder, soda, and salt; gradually add to sugar/sour cream mixture on low speed until combined.
• By hand, stir in the chopped apple and 1/2 cup of the pecans.
• Turn batter into the greased loaf pan; sprinkle with the remaining chopped pecans and press nuts lightly into the batter.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; if bread is turning too brown, cover top of the bread loosely with foil for the last 10 minutes.
• Let cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• While bread is cooling, in a small saucepan over medium-high heat combine the butter and brown sugar and cook, stirring, until mixture comes to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer gently for 1 minute to make caramel topping.
• Remove bread from pan; drizzle top with the caramel and let cool.
• Serve and enjoy!
• Recipe collected from Gail's Recipe Swap.