I made y’all some bread.
Some big, fat, in your face, whole wheat apple bread. It’s the kind of bread that will kick your morning coffee in the face… with love and respect.
I like to do things with love and respect… even if it’s yelling at the Los Angeles traffic gods… or channeling my snarky side while on the phone with the IRS. If I say it’s done with love and respect… totally ok, right?
I love when sweet treats are also filled with things like whole wheat, and walnuts and flax seeds. It’s full of health, despite the butter and sugar. This bread is tastes like home… if your home were in, say… rural Oregon.
I like the combination of grated and coarsely chopped apples in this recipe. You get all the flavor and moisture of the apples combined with big ol’ chunks too. Delightful. Walnuts are great in this recipe and flax seeds add all kinds of health. If you don’t happen to have flax seeds on hand. No worries. You can leave them out.
Make this bread. It has cinnamon and apples in it. Really… that’s all you need to know, right?
Quick note: I only needed two apples for this loaf. The third apple I ate with my face.
Ingredients. Essential.
Apples. Walnuts. Flax Seeds.
Sugar topping gets crusty and extra yummy when baked. For serious.
This is the part that includes your face. Insert bread into face.
Oh! One more thing… if you like crazy healthy breakfast treats, you might also enjoy these Gnarley Muffins. I posted this waaaay back in the day when I had only been at this whole blogging thing for a month. The pictures? Pretty bad.
Apple Walnut Flax Seed Bread
makes one 9×5-inch loaf
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
generous pinch freshly ground nutmeg
2/3 cup buttermilk (if you don’t have buttermilk, try these substitutions)
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup grated apples
1/2 cup coarsely chopped apples
1 tablespoon flax seeds
3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, divided
cinnamon and sugar for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
In a small bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla extract.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Add the grated apples, chopped apples flax seeds and half of the chopped walnuts. Fold to incorporate thoroughly.
Spoon batter into prepared pan and top with granulated sugar, cinnamon and the rest of the walnuts.
Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.
Let cool in the pan for 15 minutes then invert onto a cooling rack to cool before wrapping.
Serve slightly toasted with butter. Yumtastic.
Mary Sims
Is there a break down of calorie and nutrition value of this bread somewhere? I love it so much!
Isabella
This sound too good to be missed, I am making it at the weekend.However, american cup is different to english cup please advise in gramms, it will make it easer. My first time here and I am loving it. Go girl !!!! Isy
Deborah
Joy,
So nice to have found your blog. I love to bake, and saw your blog listed on the Shape magazine eblast. Not only will I be voting for you as the best blog, I’ll also be making your apple cinnamon coffee cake posted yesterday (that looks absolutely fab!). Thanks for providing such wonderful recipes. I’m looking forward to also making this apple walnut flax bread. Thanks again, and I’m happy to be a new follower.
Best,
Deborah
Linda
This was absolutely delicious. A great healthy treat my kids loved. Can’t wait to try some of your other recipes.
Lucy
delicious and semi healthy. Moist apply walnutty goodness
Cha cha
I just made this today and plan to have for breakfast this coming week (if I can resist going back for more slices tonight). It is delicious. I really like that it’s not too sweet and has the added flax seeds and wheat flour and not too much butter (relative to your other recipes :) so I get to say I’m eating healthy when I’m really just eating deliciousness.
Rebecca
You are an amazing cook!!! I LOVED this bread…fantastic & made the house smell SO good, tasted even better!
cassia
I live in rural Oregon. I saw this and knew it was ment for my taste buds. On my way to the kitchen to bake it this very moment.
Sheree
I made this bread for my Sunday cooking fest, and it was so easy to make, delicious, and even a bit healthy! Found it hard to wait for the bread to cool before taste-testing, so I caved and sliced off the ends to sample with a cup of Earl Grey. Mmm mmm.
I didn’t have flaxseeds (or as Martha suggested, flaxseed meal, since the seeds do go straight through you without reaping any benefits) so I substituted with chia seeds… And it worked perfectly!