Apple Recipes

Elegant fruit soup with apricot nectar, brandy, honey, and warm allspice. Serve hot or chilled with fresh peaches, papayas, or cherries for brunch or dessert.

Cinnamon candy apple Jello salad with applesauce and a cream cheese topping. A retro molded gelatin side dish with warm cinnamon heat and tangy lemon notes.

Ice cream pie with a self-forming spice cake crust that collapses into a pie shell as it bakes. Filled with maple nut or cinnamon ice cream and frozen until firm.

Harvest pie made with Granny Smith apples and green tomatoes, spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, finished with a lattice crust. A rustic fall deep-dish pie with optional rum.

Chocolate applesauce cake with just five pantry ingredients. No eggs, no dairy, no butter. Moist, fudgy crumb from unsweetened applesauce and real chocolate.

Carter family coleslaw shreds fresh green cabbage, crisp apples, celery, and carrots, then dresses them with mayo and celery seed. The salt-water soak is the secret. Old-school Southern fish-fry slaw with a little Appalachian wisdom.

Easy caramel apple pie: classic apple pie shortcut with store-bought crusts, sweet sliced apples, and a hot drizzle of caramel sauce and pecans straight out of the oven.

Traditional Yorkshire bilberry pie from Haworth with wild bilberries mixed into baked apple pulp, wrapped in pastry and baked until golden. Served with cream.

Pan-fried potatoes with tart apples, scallions, and fresh mint. A simple skillet side with sweet-tangy crunch and herbaceous brightness, ready in 20 minutes.

Curry stir fried chicken and apples, a quick 20-minute skillet dinner with cubed chicken breast, honey-curry glaze, crisp apples, and plump raisins served over rice.

Sliced apples tossed with pudding mix, layered over a press-in oat crust, topped with shredded American cheese and a buttery crumble. A sweet-savory apple pie with no rolling pin needed.

Pork loin scallops sauteed with baby artichokes, apple slices, sage, and Calvados in clarified butter. A Normandy-inspired one-pan saute restaurant-quality and ready in 30 minutes.

Skillet chicken breasts with sauteed apples in a creamy sour cream and basil sauce, served over noodles. A one-pan weeknight dinner ready in 30 minutes.

Whole wheat and cornmeal muffins sweetened with honey and made oil-free with applesauce. These low-fat, dairy-free muffins are simple pantry-staple baking at its most wholesome.

Sheila's apple pie tops green apples with a buttery batter made from pancake mix, sugar, egg, and butter. The unconventional shortcut topping bakes into a tender, cake-like crust over tart apple filling.

Baked apple French toast casserole with caramelized brown sugar apples on the bottom and custard-soaked bread on top. Make it the night before and bake for a hands-free brunch.