What to Do with Cooking Apples

17 Recipes That Turn All Those Cooking Apples Into a Delicious Treat

Nov 6 2018 by Elle Taylor

Ahh Autumn, season of mists, mellow fruitfulness, and a bounty of cooking apples. If you're wondering how to use up your stash, these recipes will turn tart cooking apples into the most delicious treats. After all, an apple a day does more than keep the doctor away, it can also keep you regular. And apples pair so well with so many of the season's most delicious flavours, from cinnamon to blackberries. Cakes, sauces, and savoury options — apples can be cooked in lots of ways.

Browse our pick of the scrummiest ways to use the fruits of your scrumping, and keep the seasonal bakes going with the best Autumn berry recipes and slow cooker meals.

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Apple Upside Down Spice Cake

If the thought of baking terrifies you, you'll love the fact that this cinnamon-infused bake uses packet cake mix. Apples and chopped walnuts provide a tasty topping.

Get the recipe: apple upside down spice cake

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Salted Caramel Apple Pie (Vegan)

This twist on the classic apple pie adds in salted caramel. It's even vegan. Win-win.

Get the recipe: salted caramel apple pie (vegan)

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Individual Caramel Apple Galettes with Brown Butter

Sticking with the caramel theme, these are like toffee apples in galette form, with the welcome addition of brandy and brown butter.

Get the recipe: individual caramel apple galettes with brown butter

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Apple Butter

Take your love of apple sauce to the next level with this super-concentrated version. Cooking the apples in cider or water for hours leads to caramelization and all kinds of yumminess.

Get the recipe: apple butter

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Slow Cooker Rosemary Dijon Pork with Cinnamon-Apples and Red Potatoes

Looking for something savoury? Pork and apples go together like, well, pork and apples, and this recipe brings in apple's other BFF, cinnamon.

Get the recipe: slow cooker rosemary dijon pork with cinnamon-apples and red potatoes

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Best Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins

Made with coconut oil, unrefined sugars, and lots of apples, these muffins can be made vegan too with a few tweaks to the recipe. Perfect for healthy snacking.

Get the recipe: best healthy apple cinnamon muffins

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Apple Cherry Turnovers

These pastry delights contain granny smith apples, dried cherries, and an all-butter puffy crust. They look pretty fancy to boot.

Get the recipe: apple cherry turnovers

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Fresh Apple Cake

Grandmothers have the best recipes, and this one involves grated apples and spices in a simple method. Homemade caramel sauce is the perfect finishing touch.

Get the recipe: fresh apple cake

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Apple Crumble Bars

This is a really easy way to enjoy the flavours and textures of apple crumble on the go, and you don't even have to cook the apples separately. Apples, spices, rolled oats, brown sugar — all that good stuff rolled up in one.

Get the recipe: apple crumble bars

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Baked Apples

Let the apple be the star of the show with this easy recipe. Stuffed with cinnamon sugar and walnut mixture, you'll probably want to dollop on a scoop of vanilla ice cream too.

Get the recipe: baked apples

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Mince Pies with Homemade Mincemeat and Brandy Butter

Get in the festive mood with your own homemade mince pies with cooking apples along with sultanas, raisins, currants, almonds, dried cranberries and cherries, and spices, spices, spices.

Get the recipe: mince pies with homemade mincemeat and brandy butter

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Apple Crumb Cinnamon Rolls

These homemade cinnamon rolls are filled with apples and finished with a crumb topping. There's even icing on the top, literally.

Get the recipe: apple crumb cinnamon rolls

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Cinnamon Roll Apple Crisp

This recipe combines a layer of cinnamon rolls with an apple topping and crunchy oatmeal crumble. It uses ready-made cinnamon rolls so it's super-easy to make. There are lots of different finishing touches to choose from too.

Get the recipe: cinnamon roll apple crisp

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Apple Fries

If you're looking for a wicked treat, then these apple fries fit the bill. Battered, cooked in a frying pan, and coated in cinnamon sugar, they're part churro, part apple pie.

Get the recipe: apple fries

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Old Fashioned Apple Cobbler

There's a warm, spiced apple filling and a sweet biscuit crust topping to this cobbler. In case you were wondering, cobblers traditionally do not have a bottom crust, despite some bakers choosing to add one to theirs.

Get the recipe: old fashioned apple cobbler

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Apple Fritter Bread

This tastes like an apple fritter doughnut but is actually baked. It's constructed from just 4 ingredients: apples, cinnamon rolls, sugar, and cinnamon, all made into a pull-apart bread.

Get the recipe: apple fritter bread

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5-Ingredient Apple Crisp

Yep, there really is only 5 ingredients in this recipe, namely apples, brown sugar, unsalted butter, rolled oats, and cinnamon. Perfect with a scoop of ice cream on top.

Get the recipe: 5-ingredient apple crisp