Apple Bread

I really love this recipe, even though it still needs some tweaking. It is a real bread, and is wonderful for breakfast with butter and/or jam.

Ingredients:

1 9x5 inch bread loaf pan

some grease

some breadcrumbs or flour

750 g apples (coarsely grated)

150 g brown sugar

600 g flour (see comments)

3 leveled teaspoons of baking powder

100 g raisins

100 g hazelnuts 

Preparation:

1. Grease a cake pan, sprinkle with breadcrumbs or flour.

2. Mix flour, baking powder and brown sugar, then stir in the apples.

2. Add raisins and hazelnuts.

3. Bake at 375F for about 75 min or until the toothpick comes out clean.

Comments:

1. The recipe calls for peeled apples, I used both peeled and unpeeled apples, and it not any different to me.

2. I am still tweaking the amount of flour, which I think depends on the moisture in the apples. The original recipe calls for 500 g; that was clearly not enough, the cake was too moist. So I've increased the amount of flour last time, which worked better. I didn't measure the amount, though. I’d say one needs so much flour in it that it takes some stirring to coat the flour with the moist apples.

3. You can certainly increase the amount of raisins and hazelnuts; last time  I didn’t even measure, I just poured them in. You can also exchange the dried fruits and nuts for others (e.g. cranberries and walnuts).

4. The dough is very heavy. If you don't have a loaf pan you can probably just bake it as a loaf on a baking sheet.

5. I also tried the recipe with Trader Joe's gluten-free flour, which worked surprisingly well!

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