I brought this to our Easter potluck after church. I always forget whether anyone notices, it becomes a friendly competition of who brought the best dish. Well this won! My husband overheard people all day saying did you taste that and later people were discussing what's in it? Well there's raisins, nuts, spices. My husband didn't correct them, it's funny everyone thought it was some amazing, complicated & unhealthy recipe.
We were happy to have one just for us for breakfast.

Yum! I liked the idea of putting cream cheese in it so that is what I did. I didn't put the glaze on top and we had it for breakfast. It did definitely need to be covered for part of the baking otherwise it got very brown before the fruit was done.:-)

We love this recipe. I'm making it again today to take to church tomorrow...I'm sure they'll love it too!

This was pretty good, although, I won't put as much nutmeg in it next time. It was very good served at room temperature. I might try putting a layer of cream cheese under the fruit to make a "danish" apple ladder loaf. Thanks Tammy!

I agree that this recipe leaves lots of room for variation. You could leave the sugar out of the apples all together or drizzle honey over them before closing it up. It's very impressive looking and a great starter project for first-time bread makers.

This is a delicious pastry!! It's not overly sweet, which means you can eat a lot of it at once. ;) It's so yummy!! While it does take some time to make, the recipe makes two large loaves. Not that they will last very long, anyway, but... Very good recipe!!

We did add some extra flour to make the dough more manageable.

We also had to cover the loaves loosely with foil about halfway through baking, so they wouldn't get too dark.

For drizzling the icing, we put the icing in a ziplock bag and cut the bottom corner just enough so that it would drizzle nicely.

Yes, a must try!! I have made this twice now and it doesn't last long here!

This loaf is delicious. There are a lot of pros to trying this one out. First, is that it is absolutely delicious. Second, is that it is not overly sweet. You could easily eat this for breakfast. Take off the icing, maybe add a pinch more of fruit, substitute some whole wheat and all your guilt should wash away! Which leads to the third point--the recipe is rock solid, which opens the door up to variants. Add more icing, put a different fruit in, put a cream cheese base under the fruit, and so forth. Seeing as it makes 2 loafs and you can store some of the dough in the fridge for days there are a lot of possibilities. We loved this recipe and WILL be using it again--hopefully often!

This is simply delicious and worth all the time it took to make it!
Mmm!

I made one of these yesterday evening (the other half of the dough is in the fridge). I had it ready when hubby got home from his class and he loved it! He had another piece for breakfast this morning and told me again how good it was. I used some home-canned apple pie filling instead of the filling listed in the recipe. and sprinkled a bit of flour over it before folding the dough over so it wouldn't get too runny. Delicious and very pretty. Looks very impressive when it's done!