This Apple Pull Apart Bread with Caramel Drizzles is a delicious monkey bread recipe. It's sure to be a hit served for dessert or breakfast.
There is just something about the smell of fresh bread wafting through your house on a weekend. Add some apples, cinnamon, nutmeg and caramel sauce and it's almost sensory overload.
Notice I say "almost". To me there is no such thing as "too much of a good thing". When I make things with cinnamon and nutmeg I just want the food to practically swim in it.
Honestly, I cannot help myself. I find myself dashing on a little more spice, then a little more. Luckily my family shares my obsession with cinnamon and nutmeg.
They also share my love of caramel. Nothing screams weekend like that amber sweetness being swirled in a favourite pot on top of the stove. Sometime too much of a good thing is...well, a good thing, When you combine apples, cinnamon, nutmeg and caramel it's a great thing.
This recipe is inspired by Gotta Get Baked's Apple Pull Apart Monkey Bread. I remember falling in love awhile back so I just had to try it.
Bloggers like to tinker with recipes but I didn't change much with this recipe..
I read her notes which said she would not put apples on the bottom again and she was a tad disappointed in the texture of the dough and how moist the monkey bread was.
Her family raved about it so she was probably just being too hard on herself as us food bloggers tend to be. But for me if someone makes a note about something I like to heed their advice and make adjustments based on their opinion.
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- Pizza Pull Apart Bread
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Apple Pull Apart Bread with Caramel Drizzle
Ingredients
For the bread portion:
For the sugar coating:
- ½ cup apple sauce butter or vegetable oil work well too
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
For the apple portion:
- 4 medium apples peeled then grated (I used 3 granny smith and 1 gala)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
For the caramel:
Instructions
For the bread portion:
- Whisk the milk, water, butter and honey together in a measuring cup. Set aside.
- In your stand mixer with dough hook attachment combine 3 ½ cups of the flour, the yeast and the salt. Turn mixer on low and slowly add the wet ingredients.
- Once it comes together nicely increase the speed to a medium setting and let it knead the dough until it's smooth and elastic. You can add more flour as needed. I used all the flour. The dough should pull away nicely from the sides of the bowl when it's ready.
- Turn off mixer and remove the hook. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead for a minute or two until it forms a ball.
- Pop the dough in a well oiled bowl (I use non stick spray) and cover. Let stand in a warm area for about 1 ½ to 2 hours, it should double in size.
- While it's doubling I suggest working on the caramel and grating the apples.
- Once it doubles you want to pop it onto a cutting board.
- Start dividing it into little balls.
- Pop those balls in the apple sauce first, then dunk them in the sugar coating.
- Now place them in a parchment lined tin. I used two bread tins and made two breads instead of one large one.
- Line the bottom of each pan with some sugar coating.
- Start layering your bread pieces into the pan.
- Once you have one layer toss the apple mixture over top.
- Now add another layer of bread pieces, after dunking them in applesauce and sugar coating like you did the first time.
- If there's any sugar coating left dump it over top of the bread.
- Cover the bread and let rise for another 1 to 2 hours, it should double in size.
- Pop in a pre-heated 350 F oven for about 40 minutes.
For the sugar coating:
- Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Set aside until needed.
For the apple portion:
- Mix all the ingredients together in a medium sized bowl and set aside until needed,
- (I would recommend doing it right before you need it so the apples don't brown)
For the caramel:
- In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the water and sugar. Stir until all the sugar dissolves.
- Now it's a waiting game. Let it cook over medium heat and do not stir. You want to wait until it turns amber. It takes awhile. You can swirl it lightly by sort of swishing the pan around lightly but do not stir it.
- Once it's amber you remove from the heat.
- Add the butter and swirl it around till it melts.
- Add the cream (it's going to bubble up, do not panic it's suppose to do this) and whisk until it's smooth.
- Add the vanilla and salt. Whisk until smooth.
- Pour into a jar or container and let cool off for a bit. You want it soft enough to pour over the bread but not hard so it won't pour.
Putting it all together:
- Let bread cool a bit.
- Now pour caramel over top.
- Serve with a big old caramel apple bread smile!
Notes
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Stacy
This looks fabulous, Kim! Especially the one with the caramel dripping all down the sides. That's the one I want and I am not even a big sweet eater. Doesn't matter. Still want some.
You give good advice to folks with younger children still at home. Take advantage of those moments because dinners altogether are few and far between once they grow up. Hope someone out there is listening. 🙂
Nancy @ gottagetbaked
Kim, what a wonderful post! Our thoughts on the importance of getting the family together for dinner are very similar. thank you for the lovely compliments - I really hope that your pull apart bread turned out deliciously. It sure as heck looks ah-may-zing and it should always be covered in caramel as creamy and luscious as yours. I don't want you to judge me which so I'm definitely going to learn how to make vanilla salt and vanilla brown sugar from you 😉 I'm so glad I've met you through this fabulous group. Happy Sunday!
The Ninja Baker
Thank you for your tips, Kim. Your photos are absolutely tantalizing and I am looking forward to baking these beauties and taking a bite!
Ramona
A bowl full of those any morning and I would be a happy camper. Looks deliriously delicious. 🙂
Kate | Food Babbles
Oh my goodness!! Apples, cinnamon, nutmeg... How can you go wrong? This bread sounds finger lickin' good! Truly.
Helene Dsouza I Masala Herb
Kim I share the same obsession with spices such as nutmeg and cinnamon. Spices can turn a bread so aromatic, it gives it a character, kind of a own soul. On top you came up with a luscious caramel blanket, you are killing me (in a good way)! =P
Jennifer @ Peanut Butter and Peppers
I haven't had breakfast yet and all I want to do is reach into my computer screen and grab your bread! I love apple bread and with caramel, oh man!! Ok, I have to make bread now!!
john@kitchenriffs
Love the pictures! Isn't it fun making a mess when we're food styling? And this recipe is delish, too. I love bread of any description, and the sweet stuff is so good! This would be gone in an instant at my house. 😉
Terra
I always say, don't mess with perfection right? This recipe not only sounds lovely, it looks freaking awesome!!!!! That caramel drizzle looks beyond delicious, Hugs, Terra
Liz
MMMMMMmmmm.....I could add a whole lot more 'M's.' This is just that wonderful! I love apples in baked goods and adding caramel makes this one even more enticing!
PS...I had some bad hair choices back in the day, too 🙂
Tara
Drizzling, dunking, pulling, licking, oh so good!!
Erin @ Dinners, Dishes and Desserts
Kim, I am salivating just thinking about this bread - so good!!
Amanda @ MarocMama
Doesn't caramel make everything better? This is a great looking dessert (or breakfast?!)
Jen @ Juanita's Cocina
I could eat this all myself. I have no shame in that fact either.
CCU
You celebrate birthdays in style my friend, this looks so sinful and decadent 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
hester @ alchemy in the kitchen
Kim, this sounds wonderful! Apple and cinnamon are like a log fire burning in the hearth - they just scream HOME!
Suzanne Perazzini
Apple, caramel and cinnamon will get me every time.
Sitting down as a family for dinner was something we have always done and still do. We did it when I was growing up and so did Adriano and so it came naturally to do it as well. Italians would never eat in shifts or on their laps the way other countries often do now so I don't think I would have been able to let that one slide.
LOL to the big hair. I had a perm only once and wanted to kill myself afterwards.
Renee
I love the smell of the house when baking with cinnamon and apples. Well, even just plain bread baking is a delight. I'm sure this pull-apart bread would be dangerous to my hips if I had it here. But I'm willing to face the danger and put it on my to-bake list - if only for the scent alone.
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen
I really, really would like to grab that last pic and eat it as I write this. Apples, caramel and bread, doesn´t get much better! Great recipe Kim!
Joan@Chocolateandmore
Kim, this sounds amazing and I'm in love with your photos. I just want to reach through my computer screen and wipe that dripping caramel up with my finger.