Buttery Apple Cinnamon Bread adapted from Rae Gun Ramblings

This recipe is adapted from: Rae Gun Ramblings Cinnaburst Bread, click on the link and check her website out!

I originally found this recipe on Eat Cake For Dinner's website: click on the link and check her website out! She adapted her version from Rae's original recipe. Just giving credit where it's due. :)

What I changed: changed 1 cup milk to 1 cup water, added a specific amount of flour. See the note below about bread flour or all purpose flour, added my recipe for cinnamon butter flavoring, and added 2 Granny Smith apples.

Special Flour Note*
You can use all purpose flour instead of bread flour - if you do, make it 6 cups of all purpose flour instead of 5. I've made this recipe both ways and they are both fantastic.
When mixing the ingredients, you'll notice that the dough is still wet, don't add too much flour or the bread will be very dense, we want a light airy fluffy consistency, so don't worry about the batter being wet!

I use 2 bread loaf pans and 1 square 8x8 glass pyrex bakeware to bake this recipe in. If you just use 2 bread loaf pans, you may find that the amount of dough is so plentiful that it overflows out of the pan when you bake it and you'll get butter cinnamon and apples all over the bottom of your oven burning. 

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Apple Cinnamon Bread

Ingredients:
2 cups warm water
2 1/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
1/3 cup white granulated sugar
1/3 cup canola oil
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
5 cups bread flour


2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cubed
 
Cinnamon Butter Mixture:
8 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 cup white sugar

Step 1: Bread dough

A. Measure water. Pour into microwave safe container. Microwave water for 40 seconds until warm. Water should be warm, not hot. Add water to large bowl.
B. Add yeast and sugar into large bowl and stir until dissolved, let sit 10 minutes. Yeast should look frothy and bubbly. It should smell like bread.
C. Add canola oil, 1 egg, and salt to bowl. Stir well.
D. Add flour 2 cups at a time stirring with a fork until batter becomes a wet, sticky dough.

E. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm place for 1 hour.

F. I use a bird bath to keep the dough warm.
           i.      Add hot water to a large tupperware container or bowl.
           ii.      Nest the mixing bowl into the tupperware bowl and let the heat of the water warm the bottom of the mixing bowl from the outside.

G. Let sit for 1 hour. Dough will rise.

Step 2: Cinnamon butter spread and apples Prep

A. Peel and cube apples. Set aside.
B. Melt butter in microwave for 10 to 15 seconds until liquid.    
C. Add cinnamon and sugar to butter and stir.
 

Step 3: Putting it together:

A. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
B. Butter inside of bread loaf pans and glass pyrex bakeware.
C. Divide batter into three equal parts and put them in your bread loaf pans/pyrex bakeware.
D. Add cinnamon butter mixture to bread dough.
E. Add cubed apples to dough.
F. Knead and fold dough inside pan to distribute apples and cinnamon butter mixture evenly.
   a. Dough will be very wet now.

G. Bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour. Bread should be slightly golden brown.
H.  Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.
I. When eating after bread has cooled and was refrigerated. Slice bread, then microwave it for 10-20 seconds to soften and warm bread. It will taste 100 times better!