Apple Praline Bread Recipe 46

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 CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Line the bottom of a 9" springform pan with parchment, and butter the pan.
• Cream the sugar and beat in the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla.
• Sift the flour and baking powder into the butter and sugar.
• Beat them in to form a smooth batter.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared springform pan.
• Wet your hands and pat it evenly into the pan.
• Mix the cinnamon and sugar.
• Peel the apples and cut them into thin slices.
• Toss them in the cinnamon sugar and push them, on end, into the batter.
• At first they will seem to be sticking very far out of the batter, but the apples will make the level rise as you go.
• When all the apples are in- pack them in there- press them down slightly, so none stick out more than 1/2".
• Sprinkle any remaining cinnamon sugar over the top.
• Bake the cake for 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cream the remaining butter and sugar, and beat in the remaining egg.
• Spread this over the top of the cake and bake for 15 minutes more.

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.

APPLE PRALINE BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large mixing bowl beat the sour cream, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla on low speed for about 2 minutes until well blended.
• Add in flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix until well combined. Then fold in the chopped apples and 1/2 cup of the chopped pecans.
• Spoon batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining pecans. Pressing them lightly into the batter.
• Bake for about 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. If the bread is browning too fast, tent foil loosely over the top of bread to prevent it from burning. Cool in the pan for about 15 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
• While the bread is cooling make the praline topping.
• In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar and butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat stirring constantly. Lower the heat and simmer lightly for about one minute, stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Remove from heat and drizzle over the bread. Cool and then slice and serve.