These easy apple recipes include cozy fall apple recipes for breakfast, dinner, and dessert. You’ll find apple dessert recipes like moist apple cake, apple bars, caramel apple treats, and apple crisp, plus healthy apple recipes and savory options like pork and apples. This collection uses fresh apple recipes with green apple, granny smith, honeycrisp, pink lady, and red delicious to make the best apple recipes simple and full of cinnamon flavor. Pin this list so you’ll have baked apple oatmeal, baking ideas, and fall favorites ready anytime!

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Our #1 Apple Recipe of All Time

Cracker Barrel Copycat Skillet Fried Apples

Cracker Barrel copycat skillet fried apples make a delicious side dish for any brunch, breakfast, or dinner or a rich dessert over ice cream or custard. This is a simple & easy recipe that can be prepared in under an hour.

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Apple Breakfast Recipes

Apple Ring Pancakes – Light & Fluffy Pancakes Filled with Sweet Apples

This recipe for apple ring pancakes is delicious, quick, and easy and makes light and fluffy pancakes with an apple center. The perfect meal for breakfast, brunch, or even dinner!

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Baked Apple Pecan Pancakes

This baked apple pecan pancake recipe is simple and easy. Originally from The Pampered Chef, it is the best breakfast for dinner or brunch recipe! Cooked in the oven with fresh apples and chopped nuts. Great for fall family gatherings.

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Healthy Baked Oatmeal

This healthy baked oatmeal is quick, cozy, and easy to prep ahead for busy mornings. It’s one of the best easy baked oatmeal recipes made with old fashioned oats, no banana, and mix-ins like apple, cherry, and blueberry for a perfect baked blueberry oatmeal.

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Apple Crisp Recipes

Pampered Chef Apple Crisp with Cake Mix

This easy apple crisp is the best recipe you’ll ever eat! With its rich topping and no oats plus a secret ingredient, you’ll never make another apple crisp recipe again!

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Apple Crisp Without Oats

No oats? No problem! This is the simple apple crisp you need this fall, with warm spiced apples and a buttery topping that’s crisp, golden, and totally satisfying. Whether you’re after a healthy apple crisp or an old-fashioned apple crisp, this easy apple crisp recipe delivers comfort without the oats.

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Healthy Apple Crisp with Oats and Graham Crackers

How to make the best apple crisp – This simple and easy recipe with fresh apples, oats, graham crackers, and brown sugar makes a healthy crumble topping that is baked in the oven. Homemade recipe adapted from Pampered Chef’s Easy Apple Crisp.

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Apple Cake Recipes

Nana’s Best Classic Apple Cake Recipe

This simple and delicious apple cake recipe is perfect for beginners and will be a hit at any occasion. With only a few ingredients and minimal prep, you can whip up this tasty treat in no time! Get ready to indulge in a slice of sweet and tender goodness.

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The Best Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake

How to make the best easy caramel apple upside down cake. This simple recipe uses a box cake mix with apples, cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar to make a gooey, rich, moist dessert.

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More Apple Dessert Recipes

Caramel Apple Strudel with Puff Pastry

How to make the best simple and easy caramel apple strudel – Because this recipe uses puff pastry for dough, it comes together in just a few minutes and tastes amazing. The filling is sweet but not too sweet because it uses Granny Smith apples.

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Super Stuffed Baked Apples

The best simple and easy gluten-free baked apples recipe. This healthy recipe can be made in the oven or microwave. Stuffed with granola, sugar, and oats. Whole apples soften and make a perfect side dish or dessert. Delicious with ice cream.

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German Apple Fritters from the 1910 Gold Medal Flour Cookbook

These easy German apple fritters come from my great grandmother’s 1910 Gold Medal Flour cookbook. You’ll love this simple vintage dessert!

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Miscellaneous Apple Recipes

Wormy Apple – A Creative, Healthy, & Fun Afternoon Snack for Kids

This creative and unique apple snack is silly and fun. Kids will love the gummi worm and gobble down the healthy apple with peanut butter. It’s a new take on an old favorite.

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Leftover Ham and Rice

This leftover ham and rice skillet is a quick and easy way to use up leftover ham with sweet apples and tender carrots. It’s a healthy, gluten-free, dairy-free meal that’s simple to make and loaded with deliciousness. This simple 30-minute dinner is comfort food for any night of the week.

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How to Make Applesauce in the CrockPot

Easy homemade slow cooker applesauce with none of the work. Add some cinnamon and spice and sugar if you want it. This is the perfect gluten-free, vegan, allergy-free, and paleo sweet snack!

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Homemade Apple Butter

This easy recipe will show you how to make the best thick and rich homemade apple butter in the slow cooker or on the stove. Spiced only with cinnamon for the authentic flavor you love!

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Fruit Dip to Serve with your Apples

Cinnamon Fruit Dip Recipe

How to make the best 4 ingredient quick & easy cream cheese and cinnamon fruit dip. This healthy homemade recipe uses no sugar or sweetener. Ingredients include lemon juice and sweetened condensed milk. Low carb, keto, and paleo. Awesome with apples or strawberries.

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