9 fresh apple butter recipes

Sauteed fresh morel mushrooms with Granny Smith apples, asparagus tips, and butter noodles flambed with Calvados. A spring-foraged dish with chipotle heat and watercress garnish.

Moist, chocolaty, nutty, and delicious. This apple cake is made of fresh apples and apple sauce and frosted by both butter and chocolate frosting.

Blueberry apple scones made with applesauce instead of butter and whole wheat flour for a lighter, lower-fat take on a classic. Fresh blueberries, no yolks, no cream needed.

Apple pierogi filling: grated fresh apples with cinnamon and sugar. Traditional Polish dessert pierogi served with sour cream, buttered crumbs, and a final cinnamon dust.

Apple Cinnamon Tart has a no-butter oat crust pressed with apple juice, topped with fresh apple slices and a honey-sweetened yogurt gelatin filling. A light dessert at under 185 calories.

Old-fashioned crab-apple butter made with just two ingredients: fresh crabapples and sugar, simmered down into a thick, rosy spread. A Fall preserving classic ready in 30 minutes.

If you're looking for new ideas when it comes to breakfast, try this recipe that will have you making pancakes everyday!

Curry buttered popcorn tossed with golden raisins and fresh diced apple. A sweet, savory, and warmly spiced snack ready in 10 minutes flat.

Dutch-style chicken fillets coated in a mustard-egg batter, pan-fried in butter, and served over sauteed leeks with fresh red currants and Granny Smith apple. Sweet, tart, and savory in every bite.