Pull-Apart Apple Bread Recipe

Steps to make

1. 1

   Preheat oven and prepare baking sheet

   2 min
   

   Preheat oven to 350 °F and line a bread pan with baking parchment paper and grease with butter or nonstick spray.

2. 2

   Combine wet ingredients

   10 min
   

   In a small saucepan, add butter, milk, water and sugar and stir to mix. Cook while stirring until milk becomes warm and butter is melted. Allow to cool to touch.

4. 3

   Add flour, eggs and milk

   5 min
   

   In a large mixing bowl, place flour and make a well in the center. Add eggs and warm milk into the center and stir a few times to combine eggs and milk.

5. 4

   Add yeast

   5 min
   

   Sprinkle yeast over eggs and milk and cover the bowl with a tea towel. Set aside for about 5 minutes until yeast is activated and becomes foamy.

6. 5

   Prepare dough

   10 min
   

   Once yeast is ready, fold flour into the wet ingredients until a soft and pliable dough forms. If dough is sticky, add 1 tablespoon flour, as needed, until dough becomes soft.

7. 6

   Rise

   60 min
   

   Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside, at room temperature, for 1 hour to rise.

8. 7

   Prepare bread

   5 min
   

   Once risen, transfer to a generously floured surface. Sprinkle a bit of flour over the dough and roll out into an 18x20-inch rectangle.

9. 8

   Combine butter and vanilla for filling

   5 min
   

   In a small mixing bowl, beat butter and vanilla until combined. Spread generously and evenly over the rectangular-shaped dough.

10. 9

    Add apples

    5 min
    

    Spread apples over the vanilla butter.

11. 10

    Combine cinnamon and sugar

    3 min
    

    In a small mixing bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle over the apples.

12. 11

    Cut and prepare bread

    10 min
    

    Cut dough into 5 equal strips and then into equal-sized squares. Loosely stack the squares, on their sides, into the prepared bread pan.

13. 12

    Second rise

    30 min
    

    Cover the bread pan with a tea towel and set aside for 30 minutes to rise.

14. 13

    Bake

    30 min
    

    Uncover and bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until golden.

15. 14

    Cool

    30 min
    

    Remove from the bread pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool before glazing.

16. 15

    Prepare glaze

    5 min
    

    In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stir butter, sugar and vanilla until combined and bring to a low boil.

17. 16

    Add cream

    10 min
    

    Stir in the heavy whipping cream until combined then remove from heat. Set aside to cool.

18. 17

    Glaze bread

    5 min
    

    Once completely cooled, add the powdered sugar, stir and leave to thicken. Drizzle the thickened glaze over the top.

19. 18

    Serve

    2 min
    

    Pull it apart, serve and enjoy!