1 tbs soft butter for loaf pan. 1/3 cup light brown sugar. 2 tsp cinnamon. 2 apples, peeled and chopped (in the above pic I used Honey crisp). 2/3 cups + 2 tbs sugar. 1 stick butter, room temp and cut in 4 or 5 pieces. 2 large eggs. 1 1/2 tsp vanilla. 1 1/2 cups AP flour. 1 3/4 tsp baking powder. 1/2 cup + 1-3 tbs milk. 1/2 cups powdered sugar.
Preheat oven to 350. Butter your 9x5 loaf pan. Mix brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon together in a small bowl, set aside.
Beat butter and remaining sugar in mixer with paddle and blend until smooth and creamy, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla until smooth and combined.
Whisk flour and baking powder together, add to mixer. Put this empty bowl to the side, you'll see why. Mix in 1/2 cup milk and again blend together.
In that empty flour bowl, add chopped apples, 2 tbs sugar and remaining 1 tsp cinnamon and stir.
Build time: In loaf pan, place 1/2 of batter mix, then 1/2 of apples and then 1/2 of brown sugar mix. Repeat with remaining batter, apples and brown sugar. Use a silicone spatula to gently even out mix and set apples into batter. You will bake for about an hour and ten minutes total, going for 200 degrees on an instant read thermometer (you will see that the probe will finally come out clean).
Place loaf pan on a rack to cool for 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack and cool to room temp. If you feel bold, GENTLY turn bread over to right side up. If not wait for it to cool because there is a chance it will break at this point if not careful.
Once fully cooled, in a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar and 1-3 tbs milk, one at a time, into milk, stopping when you like the consistency (for me, it's about 2 tbs). Place bread on parchment paper and drizzle sugar mix over bread, letting it run over bread (you can skip this if you'd rather have less sugar). Once sugar has set, do what you like with it.
Hope you enjoy! And Happy Holidays from me and my son, Jon!!
