Apple Bread

By 1For_Him

Ingredients

• Topping:
• 1 c butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 T lemon juice
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 medium apples
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 T sugar
• 2 T flour
• 2 T cold butter or margarine

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl. Dissolve baking soda in lemon juice. Combine baking soda mixture, eggs, and vanilla with butter mixture. Beat together. Add flour and salt. Mix to combine. Peel, core, and chop apples; gently fold into batter. Combine topping ingredients, cutting in butter to get a coarse crumb texture. Spoon 1/2 of the batter into greased loaf pan. Sprinkle with 1/2 crumb mixture. Spoon in remaining batter and remaining topping mixture. Bake for 1 hour, 15 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, remove from pan, and cool completely on wire rack.