# Brown Butter Apple Fritter Focaccia

This recipe guides you through making a delicious apple fritter focaccia with a brown butter cinnamon sugar filling and a sweet glaze.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.5 cup salted butter
- 0.5 cup light brown sugar
- 1.5 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 0.25 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 count apples
- 2 tablespoons melted salted butter
- 125 g powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
- Sprinkle cinnamon

## Instructions

1. Brown the salted butter in a pan until it turns golden brown.
2. Pour the browned butter into a bowl.
3. Add light brown sugar and ground cinnamon to the browned butter.
4. Add vanilla extract to the mixture.
5. Mix the ingredients together to create the cinnamon sugar butter filling.
6. Peel the apples.
7. Core the peeled apples.
8. Finely dice the cored apples.
9. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and brush with melted salted butter.
10. Transfer the focaccia dough to the prepared baking sheet.
11. Gently stretch the dough to the edges of the tray.
12. Mix 1/3 of the diced apples with half of the cinnamon filling.
13. Spread the apple and cinnamon filling mixture over the dough.
14. Fold the dough over the filling.
15. Flip the dough over.
16. Cover the dough and let it proof at room temperature for 1-1.5 hours.
17. Warm up the remaining cinnamon sugar butter until it's a drizzling consistency.
18. Mix the remaining 2/3 of the diced apples with the warmed cinnamon sugar butter.
19. Spread the apple and cinnamon mixture evenly over the proofed dough.
20. Dimple the mixture into the dough.
21. Bake the focaccia in a preheated oven at 215C/420F for 23-25 minutes.
22. Whisk powdered sugar, milk, and a dash of vanilla extract and a sprinkle of cinnamon to create the glaze.
23. Drizzle the glaze over the baked focaccia.
24. Brush the glaze over the top, sides, and bottom of the focaccia.
25. Transfer the focaccia to a cooling rack to allow the glaze to harden.
26. Serve and enjoy.

## Equipment

- pan
- spatula
- bowl
- cutting board
- apple peeler
- apple corer
- knife
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- container with lid
- wire cooling rack
- pastry brush

## Tips

- Browning the butter first will give more complex caramel notes to the filling.
- Warm up the cinnamon sugar butter to make it a drizzling consistency again before mixing with the remaining apples and spreading over the dough.
- Rub the bottom of the focaccia in the tray brushed with glaze to coat the bottom.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGWcgnUou72/?igsh=ZmYxNGRwZTZoOTRq
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/4c646809-2a68-4765-8db4-0fc8200c8742
- Extracted: 2025-07-02

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