Pomegranate Apple Bread
This apple bread with pomegranates is an easy quick bread recipe. The bread is moist and sweet and spiced with cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves for warm fall flavors. It’s a great way to use up fresh apples.
While browsing through the Streaming Gourmet’s blog, I found this recipe for apple pomegranate spice bread. The use of pomegranates made this bread look oh so pretty that I was excited to try it out.
I love pomegranates and how the little jewel seeds look. I was slightly hesitant about baking with pomegranates. First, because of their tartness and the hard seed (I eat the entire seed, but some of my family members were shocked that I did so.) Second, because the pomegranate seeds take so long to remove, I want to eat every last one rather than waste any on baking.
I had one pomegranate I had bought from a batch that was particularly sour and decided I could part with the one pomegranate. So I used that one to make my pomegranate apple bread.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Salt
- Baking powder
- Spices: Cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg. Or you can use two teaspoons of pumpkin spice which is a spice mix with all of these.
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar
- Melted unsalted butter
- Unsweetened applesauce
- Milk
- Large eggs
- Finely diced apples
- Pomegranate arils
How to Make It
Mix all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl, mix the butter, applesauce, milk, and eggs. Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and mix just until combined. It’s okay if there are lumps in the batter.
Fold in the apples and pomegranate seeds and then pour the batter into the prepared loaf pans.
Bake the loaves for 50 minutes at 350°F or until a toothpick comes out clean. Leave the bread in the pans for 10 minutes and then turn the loaves out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
The bread came out so pretty with the pomegranate seeds. The apples inside the bread made the bread very moist and sweet. The bread has more of a consistency of regular bread rather than cake bread, which is what I’m used to when I bake breads with fruit.
It wasn’t as sweet as cake breads, but it was sweet enough. The recipe called for 9 x 5 baking pans. Next time I think I will use smaller baking pans. The breads didn’t rise that much, so when they are cut, they are wide and short.
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Pomegranate Apple Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1 generous pinch fresh ground nutmeg
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 1/4 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup finely diced apples
- 1 cup pomegranate arils
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9x5 loaf pans with butter or cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, nutmeg, granulated sugar, and brown sugar. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the butter and applesauce. Add the milk and eggs and stir to combine. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ones and stir just until combined. The batter will have lumps. Fold the apples and pomegranate arils into the batter.
- Divide the batter between the loaf pans and transfer them to the oven. Bake the loaves for approximately 50 minutes or until an inserted knife or cake tester comes out clean. Cool the loaves in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove them from the pans and finish cooling them on a baking rack.
Notes
Love, Not a pomegranate fan because of the seeds
But with the seeds baked in perfect
I will keep the tree ?
Thank you
Love this! Put in tin mini loaf pans, 3/4 full, approx 1hr until golden brown and cracked on top. Rise was perfect! A new fave! Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it!
can you use almond milk in place of regular milk? If so do you change the amount of liquid? thanks in advance
You can use the same amount of almond milk. Keep an eye on the bread while it bakes because it may not need as long if you make that change.
This is so delicious. I love it!!! Instead of apple sauce, i used pomegranate juice and it turned a lovely pink colour. However, This meant it was quite dense. Is there anything I can do to fix that?? Thankyou!
The applesauce keeps the bread light and moist. You may want to try doing a concentrated pomegranate juice (maybe just 1-2 tbsp) rather than regular pomegranate juice and keep the applesauce.
Hi, I have a high Gluten sensitivity and am always looking for new recipes to try. For Thanksgiving I needed some sort of muffin, or bun and wanted to make something with Pomegranates. I came across your recipe and just swapped out the flour for a Gluten free flour mix. I was surprised how many muffins it made (18) and they were heavenly!!!!! My friend can’t get enough of them lol.
Great recipe!!! Thank you 🙂
That’s so great to hear! Happy Thanksgiving!
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can you fix your “print” command in your blog so that when we want to print out a recipe we have the option for just the recipe. i just went to print a recipe and thought that was what i was getting but instead got 14 pages of garbage. i have no disposable income so to waste 14 pages plus the ink is pretty frustrating.
thanks
I’m sorry that happened to you. Looking at it, this is an old recipe before I had installed a plugin that puts the recipe somewhere separate. If you look at my newer recipes posts, you’ll see the recipe is actually separate from the rest of the post so there is an option to just print the recipe. But for this particular one, and very old ones, the recipe is just part of the post, so the only print option is to print everything, or you would have to manually limit the number of pages. There’s no way for me to fix it. I can only go back an manually update each recipe with the plugin I now use, but there are a lot of recipes and that is going to take some time to do.
I don’t usually eat the seed when I’m eating pomegranate seeds either, but after they are cooked the seeds seem to soften somehow. I have taken this to a pot-luck before, and no one even realized it had pomegranate seeds in it until I told them what it was
Interesting. I didn’t really pay much attention since I eat the seeds, so I don’t know if they did soften for the bread.
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It’s pretty yummy! I like the combination of apples and pomegranates.
I don’t think it’s possible to eat the little hard seed inside. My siblings will just chew on the juice and then spit out the little hard seeds. For the recipe, I just left the pomegranate as is. I don’t remove the hard seed.
The same as how they are when raw. So if you don’t mind eating the seeds when eating it raw, you shouldn’t mind them in the bread either.
I have never tried pomegranate bread, I wish I could try one day.
That made me laugh when you said you could part w/ the pome this time around 🙂
I don’t eat the seeds – i’ve tried in the past but just couldn’t do it. My family members also don’t eat em too.
How do you take out the seeds? Doesnt that pretty much smush whatever is left over?
For this recipe, did you take out the seeds?
How are the seed hardness after you baked them?