This easy, spiced Blackberry & Apple Loaf is the perfect tea time treat. Have it sliced with butter or without, you decide!
Today I’m sharing my recipe for Blackberry and Apple Loaf!
Having picked lots of blackberries and apples recently I wanted to come up with a simple tea loaf to enjoy them in. After a couple of attempts I came up with this recipe which I’m very happy with.
On the first day of making its quite suited to having butter spread on it (if you wish) and on the second and consecutive days it becomes more of a moist cake, a little bit like Sophie Dahl’s Spelt Banana Bread.
How
This loaf is so simple to put together, all you do is mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients/fruit and make sure you don’t overwork the mixture.
Using frozen blackberries helps the berries stay whole but if you only have fresh ones to hand I’m sure that they would be fine too.
How long will Blackberry & Apple Loaf keep?
Store in a cake tin or air tight container where it will keep for 4 – 5 days.
As this Blackberry and Apple Loaf uses foraged fruit I am entering it into Credit Crunch Munch which is run by myself and Helen at Fuss Free Flavours and being hosted by Elizabeth’s Kitchen this month.
Next I’m entering A Kick at the Pantry Door’s Feel Good Food Challenge which is run by Victoria as the theme is apples.
More Blackberry & Apple Recipes
For more blackberry & apple recipes, check out the following:
- Blackberry and Apple Cake
- Blackberry, Apple & Speculaas Muffins
- Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam
- Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam
- Easy Blackberry & Apple Jelly
- Blackberry & Apple Trifle
- Apple & Blackberry Crumble
- Apple & Blackberry Flapjacks
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Blackberry and Apple Loaf
Ingredients
- 200 g plain flour
- 100 g castor sugar
- 50 g light Muscovado sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 135 mls light olive oil
- 2 large free-range eggs lightly beaten
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 120 g frozen blackberries
- 1 dessert apple peeled and chopped (do this at last minute)
- Topping:
- 1 tbsp Demerara sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
- Grease and flour a loaf tin (22 x 11 x 6 cm)
- Sieve the flour and mix all the dry ingredients together.
- Then with a large spoon fold in the eggs, oil, vanilla extract, apples and blackberries until just mixed.
- Place in a loaf tin and sprinkle on the Demerara sugar.
- Bake for 65 – 70 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
- Serve with butter or on its own. Will last for several days kept in an airtight container.
Ursula Hunt
this looks gorgeous,must try it 🙂
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
Nice to be able to be back reading blogs again. A lovely fruit loaf and sounds simple to make. Not sure I would have the patience to wait for it to cool down to eat it! There is something so comforting about eating cakes staright from the oven!
Camilla
Long time no see/hear. Hello stranger:-) Thanks it was really good with a cuppa:-)
YOLANDA DAVIS
looked great so i gave it a go and OMG it was GOOOOOOOD
Camilla
Aah, thank you so much for your lovely feedback:-) Glad you enjoyed it!
Paul Wilson
Seasonal and delicious.
tinkertink2010
Looks lovely Camilla – a fab way of using up fruit from your foraging! xoxo
Camilla
Thanks, hope you get a chance to try it:-)
Javelin Warrior
Love the sound of this cake/bread, Camila – studded with apple bits and blackberries, this sound perfect for breakfast! Simple too, which is really nice for a quick loaf like this…
Camilla
Thanks Mark, I’m a cereal kind of girl in the morning but if you want to eat it for breakfast then that’s cool:-)
carpathian
this looks yummy going to try it for my partner as he loves anything like this 🙂
angela - Garden Tea Cakes and Me
that looks a real treat, would make a change to the usual Tea Loaf I make all the time. Just need to go out and pick more blackberries as used the last batch to make Apple & Blackberry pies and crumbles.
Ooh also loved the fact that you have buttered a slice – yummy!
Angela
Camilla
Thanks Angela, I think it’s a recipe you can really play about with and experiment with different fruits and even nuts:-)
Lisa Williams
I am not a fan of cooked fruit usually but I have to say this post has left me drooling this looks absolutely gorgeous 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Lisa, it’s just the right time of year for this loaf:-)
Elizabeth
Look at those gorgeous chunks of fruit in that loaf! It looks superb! Thank you for sharing with Credit Crunch Munch!
Camilla
Thank you Elizabeth:-)