‘Tis the season to celebrate fall’s favorite fruit—apples! With the harvest in full swing, we’re performing a role call of our tested and approved apple recipes, from how-tos on classic sweet combos like apple cider doughnuts and streusel, to easy-to-tackle, party-pleasing sensations like mini cider cupcakes with cinnamon buttercream and the Zapple, a zingy apple cocktail. So, grab your baskets of this season’s bounty and start baking today!
PA Eats Names Top 10 Apple Recipes:
Perfect Apple Pie
Do you want to make the easiest, most delicious apple pie for your friends and family? Well then, read on here and try this one on for size.
Baked Apple Cider Doughnut Holes
If you’ve ever lived close to Northbrook Orchards in Chester County, Pennsylvania, then you know all about their famous apple cider doughnuts. Click here to take a healthy spin on the iconic doughnuts.
Apple Turnovers
If you are looking for a ridiculously easy, but totally impressive dessert (or breakfast?), you’ve gotta try Home Beccanomics recipe for turnovers.
Beer-Infused Apple Sticky Buns
With a two-day undertaking, including time spent kneading the dough and breaking for it to rise—multiple times—this gooey and gorgeous pull-apart bread is well-worth replacing any weekend plans. Test out the recipe here.
Mini Cider Cupcakes with Cinnamon-Spice Buttercream
Living in farm-forward county, we are lucky to have fresh-pressed ciders at our fingertips. Filling up the fridge with gallons is a no-brainer for the holidays, no matter if you are serving it ice-cold, or piping-hot, mulled with a handful of spices. But, have you considered splashing your baked goods with cider, too? Incredible cupcake recipe here.
Easy Apple Crisp with Oatmeal Streusel
This recipe was easy enough for an eight year old to make, so what are you waiting for?
Gingerbread Pancakes with Warm Apples
Consider this the holiday breakfast of masters! Combining gingerbread pancakes with warm apples makes for a satisfyingly sweet start to your day, and best of all, it’s so easy to create—and delicious too.
Apple Upside Down Cake
This season, reinvent the pineapple upside down cake with the help of in-season fruit and Becca Boyd. Click here to snag her easy-as-pie recipe for apple-topped upside down cake.
Classic Apple Dumplings
An apple dumpling is a beautiful thing. The fresh-out-of-the-oven stuffed pastry is like your own personal apple pie, perfect for individual consumption and ideal to satisfy your need for fall flavors. And sometimes, you can excuse yourself from baking. When you do, consider popping by Cakes and Candies by Maryellen of West Chester, Pennsylvania for the best classic rendition in Philadelphia’s suburbs, one deliciously accented with caramel.
The Zapple
After all this baking, you’re going to need a cocktail—duh. This ‘tail is hot, sweet, sour, strong. Consider this sip a whiskey sour on steroids, one perfect to warm the bones on a blustery late-autumn day.
