Apple Recipes

The legendary French upside-down apple tart with just four ingredients: puff pastry, apples, butter, and caramelized sugar. Flip it onto a plate and prepare for gasps.

A traditional Welsh double-crust rhubarb tart with spiced lard pastry scented with cinnamon and mixed spice. Dead simple, properly old-fashioned, and adaptable to any seasonal fruit.

Instead of making mashed potatoes, try this turnip and apple whip for a change. Serve it with pork dishes or grilled chicken.

Traditional Vietnamese herb and vegetable platter with fresh mint, cilantro, basil, bean sprouts, cucumber, and tropical fruits. The essential accompaniment for pho, banh mi, and spring rolls.

Buttermilk-soaked Canadian goose stuffed with prunes and apples, wrapped in bacon, and slow-roasted until tender. Served with a rich sour cream and currant jelly sauce. A showpiece roast for eight.

Bacon-wrapped roasted pheasant stuffed with apples and onions, served with a glossy cherry-wine jubilee sauce. An elegant game bird dinner that brings the hunter's harvest to the holiday table.

Zucchini Apple Bread: a triple-batch loaf with shredded apple, zucchini, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts. Rests overnight for deeper flavor before slicing. Makes three loaves to share.

Apple crumble pie cooks tart green apples on the stovetop with mace and lemon, then bakes them in a flaky shell under a buttery cookie-crumb topping. A streusel-style pie that skips the soggy bottom.

Apple cakes baked muffin-style with a tender sour cream and ground almond crumb, warm nutmeg, and slices of fresh apple fanned across the top. Dusted with powdered sugar for an easy single-serve dessert.

Whole grain apple pancakes leavened with yeast and packed with bran, grated fresh apple, and apple juice. Thicker than regular pancakes, naturally egg-free, high-fiber, and sweet without a drop of added sugar.

German-style apple pancakes bake puffy and golden over butter-sautéed green apples, finished with cinnamon sugar and a squeeze of fresh lemon. Brunch-worthy oven pancake.

Slow cooker apple butter simmers unpeeled apples and cider for 10 hours, then adds sugar and warm spices for the last hour. Yields ten 6-ounce jars of deep, spiced spread for toast or biscuits.

Apple spice muffins use grated fresh apple, apple juice concentrate, and warm cinnamon-allspice for natural sweetness. A lower-fat breakfast muffin with raisins and tender crumb.

Low-fat mocha chip muffins with cocoa, instant coffee, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Applesauce replaces most of the oil for a tender, fudgy crumb under 100 calories per muffin.

Apple walnut cake loaded with four cups of thinly sliced apples and a full cup of chopped walnuts, lightly spiced with cinnamon. A dense, moist autumn sheet cake or loaf.

Old-fashioned applesauce cake with cinnamon, cloves, and a hint of cocoa, studded with raisins and baked in a 9x13 pan. Tender, moist, and ready to slice in 50 minutes.