Vegan Apple Bread

This easy one-bowl vegan apple bread recipe is ready in 15 minutes with simple ingredients that you probably have at home right now! This moist apple streusel bread with sweet apple pieces is the best vegan breakfast to celebrate the Fall season!

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I am an avid baker, and over the years, I’ve made many sweet breads, like my Spelt Banana Bread, Chocolate Avocado Bread, or Eggless Banana Bread.

But I also love the taste of apples, so instead of doing more of my delicious Applesauce Brownies, Vegan Apple Cake, or Apple And Peach Crumble, I decided to make this vegan apple bread.

Vegan Apple Bread

This easy vegan apple bread recipe with banana and apple chunks.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Cook Time: 55 minutes mins

Total Time: 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12 slices

Calories: 169.8 kcal

Author: Carine Claudepierre

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Ingredients

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• ▢ ¼ cup Canola Oil - or avocado oil
• ▢ 6 tablespoons Almond Milk
• ▢ ½ cup Unsweetened Applesauce - or mashed banana
• ▢ 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• ▢ 1 cup Finely Chopped Apples - packed in the cup
• ▢ ½ cup Coconut Sugar
• ▢ 1 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour - sifted, note 1
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Fresh Ginger
• ▢ 3 teaspoons Baking Powder

Apple Streusel

• ▢ 2 tablespoons Maple Syrup
• ▢ ½ cup Chopped Walnuts
• ▢ ½ cup Finely Chopped Apples
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Cinnamon

Sweet glazing

• ▢ ½ cup Powdered Sugar
• ▢ 1-2 tablespoons Almond Milk
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch x 5-inch loaf pan with oiled parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, add olive oil, almond milk, apple sauce, and vanilla. Whisk well to combine.
• Core, peel the apples and cut them into small chunks. You need 1 1/2 cup in total, 1 cup in the batter, 1/2 cup for the streusel. Set aside 1/2 cup and add 1 cup into the previous bowl and stir the apple chunk into the liquid ingredients.
• Add the coconut sugar, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, and sifted flour to the wet ingredients. Stir gently to incorporate all the ingredients together until just combined, but DON'T overmix, or the bread will be gummy and thick.
• Transfer to the prepared loaf pan and start preparing the apple streusel bread topping.

Apple streusel topping

• In a small bowl, bring all the topping ingredients together and use your fingers to rub maple syrup and other ingredients together to coat evenly. Crumble all over the bread.
• Bake for 50-70 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. You can cover the top of the pan with a piece of foil to prevent the top of the bread from browning too fast.
• Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then pull out the bread from the pan using the hanging pieces of parchment paper.
• Transfer onto a cooling rack to completely cool – about 2 hours.
• Drizzle a mix of icing sugar, almond milk, and vanilla on the cooled apple bread for an extra sweet glaze.

Storage

• Store in an airtight cake box in the fridge for up to 4 days or freeze and thaw at room temperature the day before.

Notes

Recipe updated on 1/10/2021, adding an apple streusel to the top of the bread and reducing sugar.

Note 1: You can use white whole wheat flour for this recipe. For a gluten-free version, use my gluten-free conversion guide.. Almond flour or coconut flour, or oat flour doesn’t work in this recipe.

Oven Mode: I use the fan-forced (convection) mode. If you have to use conventional mode, I recommend increasing the temperature by 25°F (15°C). The baking time should be the same, but it might take a few more minutes.

Equipment

9-inch x 5-inch Loaf Pan

Parchment Paper

Mixing Bowl

Measuring Cups and Spoons

Cooling Rack

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 169.8kcal | Carbohydrates: 27.6g | Protein: 2.4g | Fat: 8.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3.5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 131.5mg | Potassium: 55.8mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7.6g | Vitamin A: 4.7IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 83mg | Iron: 1mg | Magnesium: 12.7mg | Phosphorus: 56.4mg | Zinc: 0.3mg

A Vegan Apple Bread recipe is a very simple breakfast bread recipe that makes your kitchen smell like heaven! It has a moist crumb full of cooked apple pieces and Fall flavors.

Classic Apple Bread is not vegan-friendly as it’s always made with eggs. But let me show you how you can make this easy vegan banana apple quick bread recipe.

Ingredients and Substitutions

Let’s see what you need to make dairy-free apple bread at home:

• All-Purpose Flour – feel free to replace it with the same amount of spelt flour. I recommend sifted flour to avoid lumps and for fluffier bread. For a gluten-free version, use my gluten-free conversion guide.
• Oil – I am using light-flavor oil like avocado oil, canola oil, or light olive oil. Melted coconut oil works too but tends to make this vegan apple banana bread chewier and denser.
• Unsweetened Almond Milk – or non-dairy milk you love.
• Unsweetened Apple Sauce or mashed banana
• Vanilla Extract – for a delicious flavor.
• Apple Chunks – you can use any apples, but I recommend crunchy apples like green apples or jazz apples. These apple varieties don’t get mushy and won’t release too much juice into the bread.
• Coconut Sugar – or brown sugar or any sugar you have on hand.
• Cinnamon
• Ginger
• Baking Powder or half the amount of baking soda, so replace the 3 teaspoons of baking powder with 1 + 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.

How To Make Vegan Apple Bread

All you need to make the best apple walnut bread are minimal ingredients and only 1 bowl!

Glazing Apple Bread

This is optional, but you can add vegan glazing on top of this apple bread recipe.

1. First,  completely cool down the bread, then drizzle on top of the loaf, as seen in my picture.
2. To make vegan glazing with only 2 ingredients, combine 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 2-3 teaspoons of almond milk.
3. Stir and adjust, adding more powdered sugar for a thicker glaze. Or add more almond milk for a thinner glaze. Drizzle the white glazing all over the apple bread.
4. Refrigerate the bread for 15 minutes to harden the glazing if desired.

Serving

You can serve these vegan apple bread slices for breakfast on the side of a cup of tea or coffee. This bread is good with a teaspoon of almond butter or vegan butter spread and a pinch of extra cinnamon!

Playing With Flavors

Like any banana bread recipe, you can add many tasty things to your vegan apple bread.

Try adding half a cup of one of the following ingredients to create different bread flavors:

• Chopped walnuts
• Chopped pecans
• Vegan chocolate chips

Storage Instructions

You can store this apple bread in the pantry for 2 days or for a week in the fridge in a sealed container. Also, you can freeze the apple bread slices in a container, separating each slice with a piece of parchment paper. This makes it easier to defrost one slice at a time. Thaw the bread overnight at room temperature on a plate.

More Vegan Breakfast Recipes

I love baking for breakfast and I have plenty of other easy vegan breakfast recipes for you to try on the blog:

Chocolate Granola

Chocolate Avocado Bread

Vegan Scones

Date Loaf

Vegan French Toast