Apple-Cherry Pie Loaves

This quick-to-make bread makes great holiday gifts for friends and family! I found this recipe in a folder of magazine and newspaper clippings that I ran across when I was cleaning up my office.

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Yields: 6 loaves

Ingredients

• Bread

• 3  cups flour
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 2  teaspoons cinnamon
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2  eggs
• 1 1⁄3 cups  packed brown sugar
• 1 1⁄3 cups applesauce
• 1⁄2 cup  oil
• 1  cup  chopped dried cherries

• Topping

• 1⁄2 cup flour
• 1⁄4 cup  packed brown sugar
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1⁄4 cup  chopped pecans
• 1⁄4 cup  chopped  dried apple

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom and sides of 6 mini loaf pans, 6x3x2.
2. In a large bowl combine 3 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda.
3. In another smaller bowl whisk eggs; whisk in 1 1/3 cups brown sugar, applesauce, and oil.
4. Add egg mixture to flour mixture and stir until just moistened; batter will be lumpy. Stir in the dried cherries.
5. Spoon batter into prepared pans and spread evenly.
6. In a medium-sized bowl mix the 1/2 cup flour and 1/4 cup brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Stir in pecans and chopped apples.
7. Sprinkle topping evenly over batter in pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on a wire rack.