I’m really into loaf cakes. For one, they are usually very easy to make (I think this one took me 15 minutes plus 1 hour 20 minute cooking) and secondly they taste fantastic!
I bought a couple of granny smith apples for another recipe I realized I was not going to make so though I’d go for it and try them in a loaf cake. This isn’t my first foray into cooking with apples and you can find my recipes for apple muffins, easiest apple butter and apple cake.
I chose this recipe because of the secret bonus streusel later, and the fact that it used two apples which was the amount I had on hand. It is a bit sweet, so if you wanted you could cut the streusel in half. If you wanted… I converted the entire recipes into weight as I find it SO MUCH EASIER to bake with weight than measuring cups. Mom – you’re just going to have to get on board with that!
Enjoy!
- Streusel
- 120g flour
- 110g light brown sugar
- 114g butter, melted
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Cake
- 240g flour
- 170g sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 114g butter, melted
- 2 medium granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1cm dice
- Heat oven to 350F
- Butter a 9 x 5 x 3" loaf pan and line with parchment paper for easy removal of the loaf
- Streusel: Combine ingredients and set aside
- Cake: Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl until well mixed.
- Beat eggs with a fork in a separate bowl until blended. Add the butter and milk and mix until combined.
- Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just moistened. Add most of the apples reserving about ¼ cup.
- Spoon half the batter into the prepared tin. Sprinkle half the streusel.
- Spoon the rest of the batter in and sprinkle top with the rest of the apples and the streusel.
- Bake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean.
- Let cool on work rack for 10 minutes than pull out of the tin using the parchment paper and let cool on wire rack completely.
Michelle Little
Writer & Photographer
Looks delicious!
the topping looks amazing!
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