In the event you’re within the temper for a fall baking undertaking (and I do know you might be!), this focaccia recipe is the place it’s at: tender, yeasted bread meets the comfy vibes of apple fritters all with a crunchy cinnamon sugar high.
Alright, right here’s the state of affairs: apple season could have been in full swing up north for some time, however down right here in Texas, I at all times really feel like I’m simply barely catching the final wave. So, earlier than pumpkins and peppermint elbow their manner in, let’s exit with a bang—and a twist! Impressed by Erin McDowell’s legendary focaccia (as loved right here on this epic In a single day Focaccia Pizza) , in the present day’s Apple Fritter Focaccia is what occurs when a basic fried apple fritter meets a loaf of bread. HEAVEN! It’s obtained that excellent yeasty fluff, a cinnamon-sugar apple layer, and a drizzle that makes it really feel like an all-day dessert disguised as breakfast.
This doesn’t really feel non-obligatory, proper? This bread merely should come out of your oven.
Listed below are the elements you’ll have to make this simple In a single day Focaccia recipe with apple pie filling:
• all-purpose or bread flour
• lukewarm water
• honey and olive oil
• lively dry yeast (I really like Pink Star Platinum)
• an apple (Cosmic Crisps are my favourite baking apples!)
• unsalted butter
• lemon juice
• darkish brown sugar and granulated sugar
• cinnamon, nutmeg, and kosher salt
The very best issues about this candy focaccia (moreover consuming it) is the benefit with which the dough comes collectively. This dough can cross my thoughts whereas I’m taking the canines out simply earlier than mattress and may come along with a fast stir as I shut up the kitchen for the night time. It rests, rises, and develops it’s taste in a single day within the fridge, making me appear like I had this wonderful bread deliberate all alongside come the next day.
In a big mixing bowl, stir collectively flour, yeast, and salt. Stir collectively heat water, olive oil and honey. Add the moist elements to the dry and stir to a really tender and really sticky dough with a wood spoon or agency rubber spatula.
I discover it actually useful to measure each the moist and dry elements for this focaccia recipe utilizing grams and a scale. A scale will provide you with probably the most correct measurement of elements (and make the dough tremendous fast to assemble).
Cowl the blending bowl with plastic wrap and permit the dough to relaxation at room temperature for Half-hour earlier than putting the bowl within the fridge in a single day (not less than 12 hours and as much as 48 hours).
At any level through the time the dough is resting, make the apple filling. This received’t be a ton of filling, however it packs a punch of taste.
Peel and cube a big apple (about 170 grams or so) into small cubes. Cook dinner down with butter, lemon, brown sugar, and spices till the juices launch and begin to bubble on the backside of the pan. Lastly, sprinkle over a combination of granulated sugar and flour to thicken the sauce and let it bubble all the way down to a syrupy consistency. Actually cook dinner the sauce down – we don’t desire a watery apple filling to sog our bread.
Enable the apple combination to chill fully earlier than introducing it to the focaccia dough.
Be aware: In growing this recipe we (me and my recipe tester/photographer Karlee) observed that we had barely totally different outcomes by way of the consistency of the dough. This can be a VERY moist dough! For me, baking in central Texas, I discovered the dough to be very moist and sticky, however not alarmingly so. For Karlee baking in wet Oregon, she discovered the dough to be alarmingly moist. With out including further flour, I inspired Karlee to push via the moist dough and he or she baked up a stunning loaf of bread. You may add a further 35-50 grams of flour as you see match in case your dough feels alarmingly moist however I encourage you to only butter your arms and hold going!
Generously butter a 9×9-inch sq. baking pan, sides and all. Scoop half of the focaccia dough into the buttered pan and use oiled (or buttered) fingers to nudge the moist dough from edge to edge. Spoon the cooled apple combination over the underside layer of focaccia.
Lastly, on a generously floured countertop, scoop the remaining focaccia and use greased arms to once more nudge the dough right into a 9×9-inch sq.. Use a bench scraper, your arms, and some prayers to scoop the counter focaccia on high of the apples. Enable the dough to relaxation and rise for an hour at room temperature. Simply earlier than baking, stipple the dough together with your fingertips to create indentations within the high of the dough. Drizzle generously with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar simply earlier than it hits the oven.
Bake till deeply golden brown and effervescent across the edges. The bread will likely be puffed and scent completely irresistible. Take away from the oven and (hardest half) enable to chill to heat room temperature earlier than working a butter knife across the edges of the pan and scooting the bread onto a slicing board.
Lower the dough into cubes and placed on a pot of espresso. We’ve entered the house between the place bread meets doughnut and it’s a marvel!
You’re going to find it irresistible!
Go away any recipe questions or feedback under! And you’ll want to come again and price the recipe after you bake it! We admire that a lot!
xo
Description
In the event you’re within the temper for a fall baking undertaking, this apple fritter focaccia recipe is it: tender, yeasted bread meets the comfy vibes of apple fritters. With cinnamon-sugar apples nestled in a fluffy dough and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, this In a single day Apple Fritter Focaccia is the final word fall morning indulgence.
For the Bread:
For the Apple Filling:
For the Topping:
- The day earlier than you’d wish to make the focaccia, make the dough and the apple filling.
- In a big bowl, whisk collectively flour, salt, and yeast. Add the water, olive oil, and honey, and blend with a rubber spatula till totally mixed – about 2 minutes. The dough will likely be very moist and sticky. Cowl the bowl and let relaxation at room temperature for Half-hour.
- After Half-hour, uncover the dough and once more use the rubber spatula to stir and fold the dough across the bowl. Cowl the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 12 hours, as much as 48 hours.
- Whereas the dough is resting, make the apple filling. In a medium pot, soften the butter over medium warmth. Add the diced apple, tossing to coat within the butter. Add the lemon juice, vanilla, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt and stir to mix. Proceed to cook dinner, stirring sometimes, till the sugar dissolves and the apples begin to soften, 3-4 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk the sugar and flour to mix. Add to the pot and stir nicely to mix. Stir continually till the combination thickens to a thick syrup, 4-5 minutes. Let the filling cool fully earlier than putting in an hermetic container within the fridge in a single day.
- When able to make the focaccia, convey the dough and filling to room temperature for Half-hour.
- Grease a 9×9-inch sq. baking pan with 2 tablespoons of butter, utilizing a pastry brush to swipe the butter alongside the underside and sides of the pan. Use a evenly greased rubber bench scraper to deflate the dough within the bowl, folding it over itself just a few instances.
- Use the bench scraper to divide the dough in half, within the bowl and gently scoop out half of the dough and place within the buttery pan. Flip that dough to coat it in butter. Use your fingers to softly stipple and press the dough from edge to edge and nook to nook as you possibly can. The dough could not need to fully calm down, however press it out as greatest you possibly can.
- Use a spoon or spatula to dot the apple filling over the focaccia within the pan. Use an offset spatula to unfold into a good layer.
- Flip the remaining half of focaccia dough out onto a generously floured countertop. Press and stipple the dough out into as a lot of a 9×9-inch sq. as you possibly can. Use a bench scraper, your arms, and some prayers to rapidly and gently switch the focaccia sq. to high the apple combination, floured aspect down. Cowl the pan and permit the bread to double in measurement, about 1 hour.
- About Half-hour earlier than baking, place a rack within the higher third of the oven and preheat oven to 450 levels F.
- In a small bowl stir collectively sugar and cinnamon for topping.
- Use your fingertips to softly stipple the dough to evenly press the dough from edge to edge. Drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and sprinkle with as a lot of the cinnamon sugar as you’d like. Sprinkle evenly with flaky sea salt.
- Switch to the oven and bake till focaccia is deeply golden brown, 25-Half-hour. Take away from the oven and permit to chill for 20 minutes earlier than scooping out onto a wire rack to relaxation till cool sufficient to chop into – about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Retailer any leftovers, nicely wrapped within the fridge. Toast gently within the oven to reheat and luxuriate in for as much as 3 days.
Notes
Be aware: In growing this recipe we (me and my recipe tester/photographer Karlee) observed that we had barely totally different outcomes by way of the consistency of the dough. This can be a VERY moist dough! For me, baking in central Texas, I discovered the dough to be very moist and sticky, however not alarmingly so. For Karlee baking in wet Oregon, she discovered the dough to be alarmingly moist. With out including further flour, I inspired Karlee to push via the moist dough and he or she baked up a stunning loaf of bread. You may add a further 35-50 grams of flour as you see match in case your dough feels alarmingly moist however I encourage you to only butter your arms and hold going!
