Apple Bread with Cream Cheese Filling

This apple bread with cream cheese filling is simply amazing and just oozes everything about the fall season. Growing up I didn’t eat apples in anything but a good old fashioned apple pie. I just don’t understand why my mom didn’t make more apple dishes when I was young. It is one of those things I need to talk to a therapist about now, LOL!! It wasn’t until I was an adult that I was introduced to how versatile apples can be . Now  I am always experimenting with new ways to incorporate them into not only sweet but savory recipes but being from Louisiana this has been a fight  in my house. My guys are pretty much meat , rice and gravy kind of guys but I am slowly converting them to having an expanded appreciation of food so won’t need therapy also, lol.

The aroma of this apple bread with cream cheese filling baking even brings my teenage boys out of hibernating in their bedrooms.  It seriously is the smell of fall, better than any of those candles you can buy.This is probably one of my favorite creations , it has tiny bits of apples in every bite and a cream cheese  filling that is a surprise hiding in the middle. It isn’t overly sweet but sweet enough to be enjoyed as a dessert, breakfast or an afternoon pick me up snack. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy this little slice of fall heaven.

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Apple Bread with Cream Cheese Filling

3.74 from 26 votes

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Cuisine American

Servings 6 -8

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Ingredients

  

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Cream Cheese Filling

• 8 oz Cream Cheese Room Temp
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 Tablespoons All Purpose Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Apple Bread

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 small fuji apples peeled, cored and diced small(about 1 cup)

Instructions

 

• Preheat Oven to 350 degrees and spray 9x5 loaf pan with baker's Joy
• In a small bowl blend together all of the ingredients to the cream cheese filling and set aside
• In a large bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda,cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and salt
• Add water , oil and eggs to the flour mixture and mix well
• Fold in diced apples
• Pour half the apple bread mixture into prepared pan, making sure the bottom is completely covered
• Carefully spread the cream cheese mixture on top of the apple bread
• Spread the remaining apple bread mixture on top of the cream cheese making sure the cream cheese is completely covered
• Bake in a preheated oven for 60-70 minutes. ...until a tester comes out clean
• Cool pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes then remove the loaf and allow to cool on the rack
• Cool completely before slicing

Notes

Depending on your pan size and your oven this needs to bake for about an hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes. I have a convection oven so I try to add a little extra time for those of you that do not. This is a large loaf and meant for one pan. 

Two small apples is about 1 cup small diced. Other apples can be used according to your taste. 

If you want more of the bread on the bottom pour 3/4 of the batter and then cream cheese layer and then the remaining apple batter. Some of the cream cheese will be peaking out of the top but should prevent the cream cheese being all the way to the bottom. 

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