Italian Focaccia with Apples and Cheese (2024)

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Italian Focaccia with Apples and Cheese- What’s better than apples and cheese? Apples, Brie, and herbs baked on top of soft homemade focaccia bread! This is a recipe you will love!

You will also enjoy Tomato Herb Focaccia and Sweet Focaccia with Raspberries and Balsamic.

Why I love this recipe

This apple brie and herb focaccia recipe is sweet and savory. The delicious apple flavor paired with fresh herbs and creamy cheesy Brie, that practically melts into the bread like butter, creates a taste of the fall season in bread form. Make this for every gathering and deliver to friends and neighbors for a tasty fall treat.

Simple Ingredients

• 1 recipe for focaccia
• Apple
• Soft cheese such as Brie
• Herbs such as rosemary and thyme
• Flake salt
• Olive oil

Read all about focaccia bread here

The Olive Oil and Salt Brands I love for Making Focaccia

FLAKE SALT I LOVE!!MALDONS

Great Basic Extra Virgin Olive Oil for This RecipeCOLAVITA

What is Focaccia?

Focaccia is basically an Italian yeasted flatbread. The focaccia dough is flavored with olive oil and sometimes topped with herbs, vegetables, fruit, and other toppings. Like pizza dough, focaccia dough is made withflour, oil, water, yeast, and salt.

What Apples are Best?

• Honeycrisp’sshatteringly crisp texture is guaranteed to hold firm.
• Fuji crisp and sweet apples that hold their shape.
• Pink Ladybalanced between sweet and tart. It will retain its distinct shape when used in this recipe.
• Granny Smithis always a safe bet as far as baking apples.
• Jonagoldtart with a honeyed sweetness, Jonagolds holds up exceptionally well in the oven.

If you love apple recipes, then you will also love these Baked Apple Slices!

Substitutes for Brie Cheese

• Camembert thisbrie-like cheesetexture becomes creamy and soft. The cheese flavor is earthy, mild, and rich with a delicate salty note
• Mozzarella is a white and creamy Italian cheese with a melty texture similar to Brie cheese.
• Gorgonzola is creamy and Brie-like in texture; as the cheese ages, it becomes harder and crumbly. All gorgonzola is wonderfully garlicky and peppery.
• Chevre is a tangy, smooth, and creamy flavor with an earthy undertone that can replicate the Brie cheese’s characteristics.

Serving Suggestions

Since focaccia bread is pretty thick, focaccia can be sliced in half and used for making sandwiches. It’s also a tasty addition to a bread basket or accompaniment to a soup or salad bowl. A sweet version of focaccia can be eaten for dessert or breakfast as a replacement for toast. Mangia!

Storing Tips

Storing: The focaccia willkeep at room temperature, covered with plastic wrap, for 2 days.Reheat in a 375-degree oven for 10 minutes. To freeze focaccia, cut it in pieces, wrap each piece in plastic wrap, place in a resealable plastic freezer bag, and freeze for up to 1 month. *I do not recommend freezing the tomatoes. Remove them before freezing.

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Made with Amore, Elena

It’s one of the simplest focaccia bread recipes that barely takes any work to create an unbelievably tasty Italian bread! Perfectly crunchyon the outside,softin the middle, perfect Focaccia Bread every single time! If you make this recipe don’t forget to come back and leave a STAR rating and comment. Thank you!

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