This bread is a delicious combination of apples, apple butter, cream cheese, and cinnamon. The bread is perfect for a fall breakfast, for snacking on, or as a mouthwatering dessert. The apples and apple butter give the bread a delicious flavor, and the cream cheese makes it extra moist. In one bite you’ll be hit with tartness from the apples, creaminess from the cream cheese, richness from the honey, and the sweet cinnamon taste of the apple butter.
We first made this bread for friends and for better or worse it stole the show. We had worked all day on dinner but this quick and easy Apple & Cream Cheese Swirl Bread was the center of attention when we pulled it out for dessert.
If you haven’t already seen our Apple Butter recipe make sure to check it out as it is a main ingredient in the Apple Swirl Bread. Apple Butter is a great way to use any extra apples you have on hand and can be used in many different recipes. Add it to the middle of breads like this one, spread it on toast, or use it as an ice cream topping. The options are endless!
Apple Swirl Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Butter Melted
- 1/3 cup Apple Butter
- 1/4 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
- 1 Egg
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 cup Honey
- 1/3 cup Milk
- 1 1/2 cup Flour Bread flour works best but all-purpose will also work
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup White Sugar
- 1 tbsp Cinnamon
- 1 Granny Smith Apple Chopped and cubed. About 3/4 – 1 cup.
- 6 oz Cream Cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° and prepare your bread pan with parchment paper and a little butter.
- In a large bowl, whisk together butter, apple butter, Greek yogurt, egg, vanilla extract, honey, and milk.
- To your wet ingredients mixture, add the flour, baking soda and salt. Mix until combined, be sure not to over mix.
- Make your cinnamon sugar by combining the white sugar and cinnamon in a separate bowl.
- Pour half your batter in the pan, top with half your cream cheese and swirl it into the batter with a knife.
- Add half of your apples on top, pressing them into the batter slightly and half of your cinnamon sugar on top. I like to shake & tap the pan a little to even out the cinnamon sugar.
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 to create a second laying with the rest of your batter, cream cheese, apples, and cinnamon sugar.
- Place in the oven and bake for about 60 minutes until a knife or toothpick comes out clean.
- While bread is baking, make the honey butter by mixing together butter, honey & a pinch of salt in a bowl.
- Top your Apple Swirl Bread with honey butter and enjoy!