Apple Bread

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 cups shredded fresh apple, from approximately 4 large peeled apples

  (Use apples that are flavorful and firm, and hold their shape when baking, such as Haralson, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, etc.)
• 2 cups sugar
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped roasted pecans or walnuts,

  optional (I love the ones from Trader Joe's!)
• 1 cup raisins, Craisins, or chopped dates
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Morton kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 8" x 4" bread pans and set aside.
• 2 Using the large holes on a box grater, shred peeled apples down to the cores;
  discard the cores, until you have 4 cups of shredded apple.
• 3 In a large bowl, fold together shredded apples and sugar, and let sit for 15
  minutes until sugar dissolves. There will be a lot of liquid.
• 4 Add oil, eggs, vanilla, pecans, and raisins, and stir to incorporate.
• 5 In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt,
  cinnamon, and nutmeg.
• 6 Fold dry ingredients into the apple mixture, just until mixed. Divide evenly
  amongst prepared loaf pans.
• 7 Bake 55 minutes, or until golden and center tests done with a toothpick. Remove
  pans from oven to cooling rack and let cool for 10 minutes. Then turn breads out
  of pan onto rack to cool completely before slicing.

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