These easy apple recipes are your answer to the question that comes around every autumn of what can I make with lots of apples?
The scrumptiously simple recipes include everything from all sorts of apple pie to :
- Apple tarts
- Apple cakes
- Apple crisp, crumble & cobbler
- Apple cookies & bars
- Baked apples
- PLUS more classic apple desserts including apple cheesecake, Charlotte, clafoutis and brown Betty.
So if you have a load of apples from a backyard tree, market or picking farm you'll find deliciously different recipes to take you all the way through fall.
For each recipe I've included time to table and a summary of ingredients so you can find easy apple recipes to work with your personal pantry supplies and busy schedule.
All of these recipes can be made with whatever apples you've got but typically it works well to combine some sharper apples e.g. English Bramley, Granny Smith with some sweeter varieties if you can.
Enjoy!!
Table of Contents
Apple Pies
Easy Apple Pie
This easy apple pie is a classic recipe with deliciously flaky pastry and gently spiced apples. It isn't the speediest apple pie to make but most of that time is the pastry resting or in the oven and the prep itself is pretty quick.
Time To Table : 2 Hours (plus resting out of the oven if your prefer)
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, egg, nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon juice.
Apple Galette
Rustic apple galettes are the super quick and easy French alternative to a full on apple pie. We love galettes in my house - including this plum galette and pear galette - as you can whip them up on auto pilot when your brain is full of other stuff.
Time To Table : 1 hr 55 mins
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, light brown sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, ginger, egg, apricot jam or jelly.
You just roll out a very rough round of pastry, brush it with jam/jelly, plonk your apples in the middle, fold over the pastry edges and sprinkle with sugar. That's it!
Latticed Apple Pie
A traditional latticed apple pie does take a little more effort but if you've got the patience - and nimble fingers - it is a thing of beauty and this latticed apple pie recipe is gloriously rich in fall spices and will make your home smell good naturally whilst baking!
Time To Table : 2 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice, nutmeg, cornstarch, egg.
Apple Turnover
Little apple turnovers are a great way to use up lots of apples as they make perfect lunch box and tea time treats and can easily be frozen.
This first super quick apple turnover recipe is made with store bought pastry :
Time To Table : 30 mins
Ingredients : apples, frozen puff pastry, brown sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, egg.
Whilst this second apple turnover recipe includes homemade pie crust.
Apple Pie Filling
You can store apples easily for months but sweeter early season apples don't store that well. So apple pie filling for the freezer is a great thing to make if you've got lots of apples to use up from a bumper harvest.
This amazing stove top apple pie filling macerates the apples in all the fall flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg and apple cider and will make your kitchen smell amazing - think of it as an edible simmer pot!!
Time To Table : 35 mins
Ingredients : apples, lemon juice, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, apple cider, vanilla extra, unsalted butter.
Apple Custard Pie
This apple custard pie is a lovely traditional alternative to a classic pie with just a single crust and a rich vanilla custard filling around your cinnamon-spicy apples.
Time To Table : 2 hours 10 mins
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, milk, cream, eggs, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract.
Apple Tarts
Easy French Apple Tart
As a Brit I may not like to admit it but the French do make great fruit tarts - my family adore these French white peach, plum & almond and pear tarts.
They also excel at apple tarts and this easy french apple tart is a handy French inspired recipe to start with ...
Time To Table : 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, sugar (it's that simple!!)
Or for an even easier recipe try this french apple tart from one of my favourite food bloggers using store bought puff pastry.
Toffee Apple Tart
Toffee and apples truly is a match made in heaven and toffee apple tart is blissful way to use up apples for us grown ups long beyond the temptation of an actual tooth-sticking toffee apple.
Time To Table : 50 minutes
Ingredients : apples, unsalted butter, flour, brown sugar, dulce du leche (milk, condensed milk, butter, sugar)
Apple Tarte Tatin
Classic apple tarte tatin is another amazing French apple tart for using up a big apple haul and much easier to make than it looks. This apple tarte tatin recipe is genuinely French and IN French so just use your browser to auto-translate it.
Time To Table : 2 hours
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, cinnamon
If you love tarte tatins, do also check out these plum, peach and pear varieties.
Apple Tartlets
These sweet little apple tartlets with a spicy oat topping are another adorably delicious way to turn your apple haul into lunch box and tea time treats.
Time To Table : 50 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, oats, vanilla extract.
Apple Custard Tart
This apple custard tart is a French variation on the traditional apple custard pie with a sweet crust and a nutmeg custard made from eggs and heavy cream.
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, eggs, powdered sugar, sugar, thick cream, vanilla, nutmeg.
Apple Crisp, Crumble & Cobbler
Apple crisps, crumbles and cobblers are I reckon the most deliciously quick and easy way to make desserts with all your apples. You barely need a recipe, I just
- Chuck chopped apples in a big skillet with butter, spices, a little sugar (not much at all) and a splash of water.
- Stew-caramelise for 10-20 minutes.
- Splosh in a little brandy (!!!) and cook off for a few minutes.
- Sprinkle crisp, crumble or cobbler mix on top.
- Bung in oven for 20 minutes or so!!
- Serve with cream or natural yoghurt.
But if you do want a proper recipe for your apple crisps, crumbles and cobblers, the ones below are fantastic and still very simple.
Classic Apple Crisp
This cinnamon flavoured classic apple crisp with oat topping needs only 15 minutes preparation to get in the oven.
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, cinnamon, lemon juice, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, oats, flour, unsalted butter, cinnamon.
Classic Apple Crumble
Made with just 5 basic ingredients a classic apple crumble - this one is from Jamie Oliver - could not be simpler and is a great way to use up cooking apples like Bramleys.
Time To Table : 50 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, sugar, lemon juic.
Classic Apple Cobbler
This classic apple cobbler is another super easy recipe full of warming fall spices including cardamom and cloves that tastes amazing AND makes your home smell great!
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, milk, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, cardamom, cloves, lemon juice.
Apple Crumble Cake
This spicy apple crumble cake with beautifully moist sponge and a streusel-like crumble topping works well both as an apple dessert or a teatime treat.
Time To Table : 1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, yoghurt, buttermilk / thinned sour cream, eggs, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla.
Apple Cookies & Bars
Little apple filled lunch box and teatime treats like apple cookies and bars are a great way to use up lots of apples from your garden or the market as they keep well in the fridge and can be frozen.
Apple Pie Bars
These easy apple pie bars use the same simple crumble crust as both the base and the lovely crumble topping
Time To Table : 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice.
Caramel Apple Pie Bars
These caramel apple pie bars are very similar to the easy ones above but have an oaty streusel topping with caramel sauce. They don't take long to prepare but do need a good 2 hours to rest in the fridge after cooking.
Time To Table : 3 hours 20 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, heavy cream.
Apple Crumble Bars
These apple crumble bars are similar again to the pie bars but have a real shortbreadie - classic British-Australian crumble feel to the base and topping.
Time To Table : 55 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, white sugar, baking powder, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, rolled oats.
Apple Pie Cookies
These adorable little apple pie cookies combine simple cookie dough - you can make in a mixer - with skillet caramelised apples and a quick streusel topping.
Time To Table : 45 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, corn starch, baking powder, bicarb / baking soda, cinnamon.
Apple Crumble Cookies
These apple crumble cookies that are both crunchy and crumbly are great for kids but also for dunking in a cup of tea!
Time To Table :
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, rolled oats, cinnamon, baking powder, bicarb / baking soda.
Apple Cakes
Easy Apple Cake
This easy apple cake is a deliciously everyday apple cake with layers of cake batter and sliced apples topped with flaked almonds.
Time To Table : 55 mins
Ingredients : apples, self-raising flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, milk, eggs, flaked almonds.
German Apple Cake
Most European countries have their own classic version of apple cake but German apple cake (apfelkuchen) is perhaps the most famous. You basically stir most of your thinly sliced apples into your cake batter and then press a few slices into the top as decoration finally glazing the baked cake with cinnamon sugar or apricot jam.
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, eggs, milk, baking powder, vanilla extract, lemon juice, cinnamon.
Apple & Walnut Cake
If you are a big fan of nutty cakes you will love this apple & walnut cake. Optionally, you can take it to a whole new level by adding whisky and espresso.
Time To Table : 50 mins
Ingredients : apples, walnuts, plain flour, eggs, dark brown sugar, neutral tasting oil, baking powder, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg plus optionally whisky, coffee.
Spiced Apple Cake
Fragrant fall spices are a common theme in all these easy apple recipes and this spiced apple cake includes cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
Time To Table : 1 hour 50 mins
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, vegetable oil, cornstarch, milk, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, eggs, soft light brown sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda/bicarb, unsalted butter, lemon juice.
This alternative multi-layered spiced apple cake with caramel sauce is very similar but would look stunning as a seasonal dessert.
Apple Bundt Cake
This apple bundt cake uses a very simple batter you can make quickly in a mixer but looks stunning covered in caramel glaze as a dessert.
Time To Table : 1 hour 25 mins
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, vegetable oil, eggs, granulated sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, baking soda/bicarb, heavy cream, light brown sugar.
Swedish Apple Cake
This simple Swedish apple cake (appelkaka) has a wonderfully moist sponge made with milk and is topped with thick slices of apple, brown sugar and cinnamon.
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, eggs, granulated sugar, butter, vanilla extract, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon.
Cardamom Apple Cake
The warm, sweet, spicy fragrance of the cardamom in this delicious cardamom apple cake oozes cosy autumn comfort. It's another lovely fall bake that will make your home smell amazing naturally.
Time To Table : 1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, butter, olive oil, eggs, caster sugar, demerara sugar, baking powder, ground cardamom, vanilla extract.
Invisible Apple Cake
This French inspired invisible apple cake (Gâteau Invisible) is something a bit different. It is made with lots of apples in a loaf tin and a very creamy almost custardy batter. You can top it with a caramel sauce or blackberry compote.
Time To Table : 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, caster sugar, heavy cream, milk, eggs, butter, granulated or light brown sugar.
Italian Apple Cake
Italy's contribution to this collection of easy apple recipes is this Italian apple cake (torta di mele) which has the lovely extra twists of lemon zest and pine nuts rather than the typical northern European flavourings.
Time To Table : 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients : apples, flour, butter, caster sugar, eggs, lemon, pine nuts, icing sugar
Apple Upside Down Cake
I have a real nostalgia for upside down cakes as they were so popular in my childhood and this apple upside down cake is a joyful mix of fall flavours with caramel topping and much easier than it looks.
Time To Table : 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, unsalted butter, dark sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract,
Apple Desserts
Apple Cheesecake
This stunning salted caramel apple cheesecake makes a showstopping fall dessert that would be great for Halloween, Bonfire Night or Thanksgiving if you're not a big pumpkin fan.
Time To Table : 2 hours 35 minutes
Ingredients : apples, apple cider, salted butter, light brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, all spice, cornstarch, Graham's cracker / digestive biscuit crumbs, cream cheese, granulated sugar, eggs, sour cream.
Dorset Apple Pudding
This Dorset apple pudding is a simple everyday British apple traybake that you can serve hot with custard, ice cream or cream or as slices for lunch boxes.
Time To Table : 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients : apples, self raising flour, unsalted butter, light brown sugar, milk, eggs, baking powder, demerara sugar, lemon juice, icing sugar.
Malvern Apple Pudding
This traditional Malvern apple pudding from Worcestershire in England is a great option if you are after a quick easy dessert to make with apples. You just quickly caramelise the apples in a pan then cover them with creamy egg custard topped with demerara sugar and cinnamon and pop it under the grill for 5 minutes.
Time To Table : 35 minutes
Ingredients : apples (traditionally half Bramleys, half russets), butter, caster sugar, lemon, plain flour, full fat milk, egg yolks, vanilla extract, demerara sugar, cinnamon.
Apple Charlotte
This delicious apple Charlotte is another traditional British apple dessert - or pudding - that is very easy to make. You just bake lightly caramelised apples in a pudding bowl lined with butter dipped bread.
Time To Table : 1 hour 15 mins
Ingredients : apples, white bread, butter, sugar, lemon zest
Apple Eve's Pudding
Traditional apple Eve's pudding is another British dessert that takes almost no effort - it is just cinnamon stewed apples baked under a thick soft sponge and served with custard or cream.
Time To Table : 1 hour 15 mins
Ingredients : apples, self raising flour, butter, caster sugar, egg, milk, cinnamon
Apple Clafoutis - Batter Pudding
A clafoutis is a simple French dessert that is basically a fruit and batter pudding. You can make clafoutis with all sorts of fruit including pears and plums. This apple clafoutis is flavoured with cinnamon and vanilla but you could also add blackberries.
Time To Table : 50 minutes
Ingredients : apples, butter, caster sugar, plain flour, milk, eggs, corn starch, baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla extract.
Apple Brown Betty
A betty is very close to a crumble or crisp but as in this apple brown betty has alternating layers of fruit and crumble mixture.
Time To Table : 50 minutes
Ingredients : apples, plain flour, butter, brown sugar, caster sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, lemon juice.
Baked Apples
Baked Apple & Oats
Baked apples in all their different forms are a nice no-brainer way to use up lots of fruit. This baked apple & oats recipe uses whole cored apples that are stuffed with oats, butter, brown sugar and spices plus if you like dried fruit and nuts.
Time To Table : 1 hour
Ingredients : apples, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg.
Cinnamon Baked Apples
Baked apples are a lovely simple way to make your kitchen smell amazing and these cinnamon baked apples will fill your whole home with spicy fall fragrances.
Time To Table : 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients : apples, apple juice, lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, corn starch.
Baked Apple Slices
Finally, these baked apple slices are a super quick way to make an apple dessert if you are on your own or there is just the two of you.
Time To Table : 30 minutes
Ingredients : apples, butter, cinnamon
And there you go a must save collection of easy apple recipes that will give you delicious options for using up your apples all autumn long.
Do save for later and for more inspiration check out these other seasonal fruit recipes and follow my Seasonal Food board on Pinterest.
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