Fresh bread is possibly the best thing on earth! Whenever I have bread baking, I always seem to draw a crowd. With recipes like this I really can’t blame folks for gathering!
Pull-apart breads are great for folks who struggle with creating pretty loaves of bread. These breads are best when they look messy. So you haven excuse not to make this one! This bread is like a combination apple pie and cinnamon roll all rolled up into one delicious treat. The best part is that it’s messy and gooey and everyone can’t help but dig in.
I love to make this for brunch when I have friends and family visiting. Bread is such a social food and this pull-apart bread means that everyone sits around together with juice and coffee and we actually have time to just sit and talk! You just have to be quick because there might be a battle over that last piece 😉
- 1 cup warm milk
- 2 eggs, beaten (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1¼ teaspoons salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 4½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2½ teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 21 oz can Comstock Apple Pie Filling & Topping
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- ¾ cup of confectioners sugar, sifted
- 1 - 1½ tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Add the dough ingredients in the order listed into your bread machine. Select dough cycle, start and allow the dough to run the full cycle.
- Once the dough has completed the cycle, remove to a lightly floured work surface.
- Cover with a dish towel and allow to rest 10 minutes.
- Once the dough has rested, roll it to a 20" x 20" rectangle.
- Dice the Comstock apples and mix with the cinnamon, then spread over over the dough.
- Use a pizza wheel to cut the dough into 2"x2" squares.
- Line two loaf pans with parchment paper.
- Stack the squares into small piles and gently place the piles into the pan sideways.
- Continue this until each pan is full.
- Cover with a tea towel and allow to rise for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Bake the bread for 25 - 35 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a rack, peel away the parchment paper while warm.
- Make the glaze by mixing in the vanilla then gradually adding the milk until the glaze is a thick pouring consistency.
- Drizzle over the bread.