Apple and Cinnamon Pull-Apart Loaf
This light and fluffy loaf is drizzled with a sweet vanilla icing and filled with R&R Smith’s delicious Gala apples. Grown in the Huon Valley, they are organic and a superb dessert apple and are sustainably packaged in plastic-free cardboard punnets made from recycled materials.
How long will it take?
1 ½ hours
What’s the serving size?
Serves 8
What do I need?
For the bread
- ¾ cup warm milk, heated to 45C.
- 7 g (1 sachet) dried yeast
- 3 tbsp butter, softened
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
For the filling
- 3 tbsp butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups peeled R&R Smith Gala apples, finely diced
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
For the icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp milk
How do I make it?
- Add yeast to the warmed milk, stir, cover and leave to stand for 10 minutes or until the mixture is foamy.
- Beat egg and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Add butter and milk mixture and beat to combine. If you have a dough hook attachment add it now and then add flour gradually until all combined. Increase increase speed to medium-high beat until the dough is soft and pliable (if you don’t have a dough hook, remove the dough from the bowl when it is combined and knead by hand). Shape dough into a ball and transfer to a greased bowl, cover and place in a warm spot until it has doubled in size.
- Grease a 23 x 13 centimetre loaf pan.
- Roll dough out into a 50 x 30 centimetre rectangle.
- In a small bowl combine cinnamon and sugar. Spread dough with butter and sprinkle cinnamon/sugar mixture over. Add apple, distributing evenly.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the dough into six 50 x 5 centimetre rectangles. Add pieces, one at a time to the prepared loaf pan, stacking one on top of the other. Cover and place in a warm spot for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 175C.
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, then cover the top with foil and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and leave in pan to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. When the loaf has completely cooled, drizzle with icing.
- Make icing by combining all ingredients together in a bowl. Add extra milk if needed to achieve your desired consistency.
