Enter the characters you see below Sorry, we just need caramel apples near me make sure you’re not a robot. This post may contain affiliate links. Apple Zucchini Bread with Brown Sugar Frosting — Super soft, moist, and topped with the BEST frosting ever! One bowl, no mixer, EASY recipe for the best apple zucchini bread that everyone LOVES!
Apple Zucchini Bread with Brown Sugar Frosting – Super soft, moist, and topped with the BEST frosting ever! Incredibly Moist Zucchini Bread After making The Best Zucchini Bread and being sad after we demolished the loaf in a day, I knew I had to make another version and used that recipe base as my jumping off point for this scrumptious apple zucchini bread. If you know someone who doesn’t like zucchini, they’ll still love this bread. I think the green apple flavor shines through and you really can’t even taste the zucchini, especially because the brown sugar frosting is so scrumptious. That is really for me what dominates the total flavor profile. The zucchini does help the bread stay so incredibly moist, tender, and it just melts in your mouth. Between the oil, sour cream, and natural moisture from the zucchini and green apple, it’s impossible to have a dry loaf.
This bread could easily be called frosted apple zucchini cake. Ingredients in Apple Zucchini Bread This is such a simple recipe and you’ll likely have everything in your pantry and fridge to make this recipe right now! Add the flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda and powder, salt, and stir to combine. The batter is fairly thick and dense, which is a good thing, so that when the apples and zucchini release their own juices as the bread bakes, the dough started out sufficiently thick and can handle absorbing that extra liquid volume. How to Make Brown Sugar Frosting The rich brown sugar frosting is such a star player and I urge you not to skip it.
It only takes about two minutes to make. It’s a boiled frosting that’s made by melting butter, adding brown sugar, a splash of milk or cream, and allowing the mixture to boil for a minute before adding vanilla extract and whisking in powdered sugar. The combination of the brown sugar with the Granny Smith apple is absolutely perfect. Although the bread is just fine on it’s own, the frosting takes it to the next level.
You could probably skip the frosting and do chocolate chips in the batter like I did in The Best Zucchini Bread instead. However, I didn’t want the chocolate to fight with the apples and for me the boiled frosting is the best way to go. Grating, Wringing Out, and Measuring the Apples and Zucchini I use a box grater to grate the apple and zucchini by hand in literally two minutes Use the coarsest blade, and grate away. One large Granny Smith apple and one regular-sized zucchini should be sufficient. You could use a food processor but honestly that is just lots of pieces, parts, and extra dishes later on, for a job that is about two minutes. Put the grater on a cutting board and you’ll be done faster than you could even drag out your food processor.