Cranberry Apple Pumpkin Bread

If you’ve been following along this past couple of months, you know that I love moist bread! I shared my Chocolate Dulce de Leche bread recipe to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month a few weeks ago and just before summer was over I had to get my lemon kick in with some Lemon Blueberry moist bread loaf!

So of course, to welcome fall I had to make some pumpkin puree if you haven’t made it yet, I highly recommend it. It’s super easy. I have a couple of recipes I share here on my blog for pumpkin puree from scratch, I have the crockpot version here or the stovetop or roasted version here.

Cranberry Apple Pumpkin Bread

adapted from Southern Living

1 1/2 cups peeled and diced Granny Smith apples
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup chopped dried cranberries
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cups butter, softened
4 large eggs
1.5 cups of pumpkin puree (make your own recipe crockpot here or stove here)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

Toss diced apples in 2 Tbsp. melted butter to coat in a medium bowl; add cranberries, brown sugar and 3 tbl flour, and toss until well blended.
Beat granulated sugar and 3/4 cups butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Add pumpkin and vanilla; beat just until blended.
Stir together 3 cups flour and next 3 ingredients. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture. Spoon half of batter into a greased loaf pans (I was able to make a normal size loaf and 2 mini sized loaves). Spoon apple mixture over batter, leaving a 1/2-inch border around outer edge. Spoon remaining batter over apple mixture.
Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack.