Cranberry Apple Streusel Bread
Cranberry Apple Streusel Bread has a delicious soft center dotted with cranberry and apple. This bread is topped with a thick cinnamon brown sugar streusel.
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 50 mins
Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
Servings 18 slices
Author Julie Menghini
Bread
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar light or dark
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 6 tbsp butter melted and cooled
- 1 lemon juice and zest
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup cranberries chopped (fresh or frozen)
- 1/2 cup apple chopped
Streusel Topping
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar light or dark
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 4 tbsp butter cold, chopped
Lemon Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp milk plus 1 if needed
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 9 x 5 loaf pan. You can also line it with parchment paper as I often do and then spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Combine the dry bread ingredients together in a large bowl. Whisk to combine.
In a medium-size bowl, combine eggs, lemon juice and zest, buttermilk and melted butter
Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Fold in cranberries and apple.
Pour batter into the loaf pan
For the Streusel Topping, combine flour, sugar, and cinnamon. Cut in cold butter using two forks or a pastry cutter until the mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over bread.
Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Turn pan halfway through baking. Cool completely in the pan on a wire cooling rack.
Remove bread from pan. Combine the glaze ingredients. Add additional milk if the glaze is too thick to drizzle over bread.
- Add 1/2 cup of chopped nuts to the bread and more in the streusel topping.
- Wheat flour gives the apple cranberry bread a nutty flavor and because of the additional protein some structure. You can definitely use all white flour in this recipe.
- Use a pastry cutter to mix up your streusel topping. Using your hands will warm the butter. A good crunchy streusel uses cold butter in this case.
Calories: 219kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 157mg | Potassium: 98mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 240IU | Vitamin C: 4.2mg | Calcium: 38mg | Iron: 1mg