Apple Pie Pull Apart Bread Recipe

This is our new breakfast tradition, apple pie pull apart bread with maple glaze and it only takes frozen roll dough to get started!

A few weeks ago Cade decided to run a race here in Utah called, Epic. It goes from Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I did not. I don’t enjoy running, I’m still kicking it with “morning” sickness, and again, I don’t enjoy running. So what did the girls and I do? Well we stuffed our faces with apple pie pull apart bread with maple glaze. The bread is awesome like a cinnamon roll, the apples are all glazed and tender like apple pie, and that glaze, don’t even get me started.

When you are putting together the perfect pie, try to find apples that stay firm, but create a complementary blend of tart and sweet for the perfect pie combination!

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We’ve seen a gazillion recipes all over the internet for pull apart bread but since our family is so in love with Mom’s sticky buns we rarely do any other kind of bread, but the girls were being so, so good and wanted something extra special with apples so I went for it. You see, the race takes two days to run, it’s basically a ragnar race, so he is running all night and we are without Dad for a few days.

Anyway, not only were the girls being so good for me, but I’ve wanted to do something special since they were such troopers to watch their mommy go through so much with Hyperemesis this pregnancy. It was scary for them at times, and I wasn’t able to be mom much. I know they don’t need me to make it up to them, they are so thrilled about baby brother coming, but I’ve still wanted to have special time with them anyway.

So we used Rhodes rolls, and since we knew our Cinnamon Roll Apple Danish turned out all kinds of awesome, and our Maple Bar Pancakes have a glaze that’s just like the real maple bar I knew I could squish those recipes into this one and it should turn out awesome. And boy did it ever! I mean, the three of us actually ate the whole thing. I ended up crazy sick as sugar still doesn’t sit well with me (not to mention this was a lot over just one day of breakfast and snacking), but it really was all kinds of awesome.

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Then us girls headed out for a day at Gardner Village and I even took them to get their little nails done, which nail salons aren’t really my think but oh the joy on their faces!

It was a successful day and I can’t help but think that Heaven kind of knew that we all needed that girls day and I’m oh so grateful for those tender mercies.

Serving: 1 g Calories: 763 kcal Carbohydrates: 121 g Protein: 15 g Fat: 26 g Saturated Fat: 13 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 2 g Monounsaturated Fat: 9 g Trans Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 44 mg Sodium: 965 mg Potassium: 279 mg Fiber: 8 g Sugar: 44 g Vitamin A: 539 IU Vitamin C: 3 mg Calcium: 308 mg Iron: 6 mg

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Apple pull apart bread! Apple pie filling and bourbon soaked cranberries all sandwiched between layers of sweet bread dough and then topped with a cider glaze. That’s what I’m talking about. It’s messy and yummy and you need to go get some apples to make this right now.

Last year I saw a picture of an apple pull apart bread on the cover of a magazine and I thought ‘OMG, I gotta make that!’ Because it looked so good. 🙂 And it reminded me of all the times I made monkey bread with my daughter when she was smaller. Monkey bread is so much fun with smaller hands since they can work each little ball of dough and it’s supposed to look rustic.

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However, for this apple bread it was sometime in November that I saw it when I needed to be thinking about comforting (or light or comforting AND light) post-holiday food for January and February, and not working on apple recipes. We have to stay seasonal here and people want apple recipes in the fall!

It’s okay. I do too. I just made an Apple Cake last night because it’s fall and I need to make apple recipes, darn it!

Fast forward to August, when I haven’t forgotten about the idea for apple pie bread, and it was time to make a loaf. Yay!

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First things first, I needed to decide on the apples. When I’m making an apple pie, I like to use 3-4 varieties to provide layered flavors and variations in texture and all those good things, and this bread is no different. Well…a little different. 🙂 But it still uses several apples, which means you can pick 2 or 3 types.

I ended up going with half local Honeycrisp apples, since they are one of my favorite apples in texture and flavor, along with a Macintosh and a couple of Cortlands, but Braeburn, Jonah Gold, Pink Lady, Northern Spy, or any other apple you would like in your pie would be great choices as well.

Don’t see those varieties and aren’t sure what apple to use? If you are at a farm stand, and they don’t have ‘great for pies’ labels on their apples, ASK. Or just wing it. Honestly, no matter what apples you use, apple pie pull apart bread is going to be tasty. (Though I would still stay away from using more than one Macintosh since you will get more applesauce than apple slices.)

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This is when my Art & Soul of Baking cookbook came to the rescue. This is the cookbook from Sur La Table, and one of my favorite references for baking ideas.

I flipped through until I got to the section on Rich Breakfast Dough and I knew that was just what I needed. A sweet dough enriched with butter and eggs, but not so rich that I couldn’t add the filling and glaze without it being too much. A really awesome brioche is awesome, but it needs little adornment since it is perfect as itself. If you are going to make a pull apart bread you need to take it down a few notches.

One thing I want to note about the dough is that, though it will look a bit dry before you start adding the butter, it is going to look seriously shaggy when you are working in the butter, before becoming all smooth and pretty at the end. I’m noting this because the Sur la Table recipe states that it will look shaggy before you add the butter and smooth out once you start, which isn’t quite accurate. 🙂

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Well, not quite since I decided I totally needed to embellish the filling with dried cranberries. The husband (and chief taster) thought I should soak them in bourbon first. And that was a great idea! There is a reason he is my chief taster.

However, I did determine, after trying a few different concepts, that rolling out the dough, spreading out the apple filling over the dough and slicing it into strips and then squares, did work the best. Once you have the squares, you pick them up, one or two at a time and layer them in the pan, being sure to scoop up any runaway apple bits as you work.

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Oh, and totally use some parchment paper if you want any hope of getting the bread out of the pan. This bread is sticky!

While you can make the bread without the topping, I highly recommend that extra ooomph. (This is a serious, technical baking term.) Cinnamon, cream cheese, and intense cider flavor turn the bread from pretty awesome to seriously craveable.

So go forth and bake apple pull apart bread full of apple pie filling, and remember it’s supposed to be rustic and craggy. Don’t worry and bake bread.

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Apple pie filling and bourbon soaked cranberries are sandwiched in between layers of rich bread dough in this apple pull apart bread.

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