39 + Best Apple Dessert Recipes

During apple season, there is nothing better than making fresh baked apple desserts. From pies to cakes and everything in between, these are Apple Dessert Recipes the best!

Best Apple Desserts

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Easy Apple Dumpling Recipe

Easy Amish Apple Dumplings can be made for breakfast or as a dessert- easy recipe uses only 5 ingredients. Serve with caramel or ice cream.
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Apple Slab Pie using Canned Apple Pie Filling

This EASY Apple Slab Pie using apple pie filling is the easiest way to satisfy your cravings for the classic dessert!
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caramel dessert dip topped with toffee bits surrounded by apple slices

Caramel Apple Dip Recipe

Ready in only 10 minutes, this EASY Caramel Apple Dip is the perfect quick dessert recipe for fall! Great for parties and holidays too.
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Caramel Apple Bark Recipe

Salty pretzels, sweet apples, and gooey caramel combined with chocolate make this EASY Caramel Apple Bark is the perfect fall treat!
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Apple Nacho Recipe

Apple nachos are an easy no-bake dessert featuring crunchy fresh apple slices drizzled with dreamy caramel sauce, marshmallow fluff, mini M&Ms and whipped cream.
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Apple Bread Recipe

This EASY Apple Bread recipe combines sweet apples with brown sugar and warm spices to create the most decadent and moist quick bread!
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Apple Brickle Dip

Savor the creamy blend of cream cheese, brown sugar, and toffee bits in apple brickle dip. Perfectly paired with tart apples, it’s the go-to for any gathering!
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Applesauce Cookie Recipe

These soft and moist Applesauce Cookies are perfect as a sweet snack. They're also healthier than full-sugar cookies, so eat up!
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Apple Turnovers

These easy Apple turnovers are the perfect blend of everything you love about fall! Made with less than 10 ingredients.
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Applesauce Cake

With a moist crumb and warm spices, this old-fashioned Applesauce cake is one that you'll want to make over and over again!
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Apple Cider Pumpkin Bread

This Apple Cider Pumpkin Bread is an easy treat will the best flavors of fall. Filled with delicious, warm spices, it’s the best pumpkin loaf recipe!
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Apple Coffee Cake Recipe

The Apple Coffee Cake recipe uses crescent dough for fun ribbons of buttery pastry with tender apples, a caramel sauce and crunch of salt.
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Apple Hand Pies

Apple Hand Pies are an easy and fun fall dessert recipe that’s loaded with a thick spiced apple filling and can be topped with sugar or a glaze for a delicious finish!
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The Best Apple Pie

The Best Apple Pie Recipe is an all-American dessert recipe that pairs tart apples with the perfect amount of sugar and spice. 
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Apple Brown Betty

Apple Brown Betty is a classic baked apple recipe that's super easy to make. It's loaded with spices and topped with a sugary crust people can't get enough of!
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The Best Baked Apples

The Best Baked Apples are simple and can be prepared all the way until baking ahead of time. They are perfectly paired with a crisp apple wine and a generous scoop of vanilla, butter or caramel ice cream.
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Apple Pie Cookies

Apple Pie Cookies are the perfect fall treat that’s made with fresh, crisp apples and pantry staple ingredients! A crowd-pleasing dessert that takes under an hour to make!
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Apple Pie Egg Roll Recipe

These Apple Pie Egg Rolls have a sweet apple filling with creamy brie all encased in crispy egg roll wrappers with a cinnamon sugar coating!
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angled shot of apple cheesecake bar on plate topped with whipped cream

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars are made with a shortbread crust, a creamy cheesecake layer, cinnamon baked apples, and an oatmeal crumble topping!
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Caramel Apple Dump Cake

This caramel apple dump cake is made from apple pie filling, gooey caramel sauce, buttery yellow cake mix and a melted butter and vanilla blend.
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Apple Pandowdy Recipe

This Apple Pandowdy Recipe is loaded with sweetly spiced tender apples and covered in a pie crust that's been sprinkled with cinnamon sugar! It takes only 30 minutes to prep this baked cozy apple dessert!
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Applesauce Brownie Recipe

This delicious Applesauce Brownies recipe is chock full of rich chocolate flavor, from the brownie itself to the sweet topping!
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Apple Cider Whoopie Pies

Apple Cider Whoopie Pies are a tasty fall treat that gets rolled in an easy cinnamon-sugar topping and filled with a cozy brown sugar filling!
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Easy Caramel Apple Recipe

Classic caramel apples recipe with 20+ ideas to roll them in. Perfect for a fall dessert idea or a Halloween treat! 
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Classic Apple Pie

Classic Apple Pie pairs perfectly spiced homemade apple pie filling with a flaky crust for an easy-to-make pie that will please everyone! Pull this delicious pie out of the oven in under an hour!
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Homemade Apple Pie Filling

The only homemade apple pie filling recipe you'll ever need! Perfect for all baked goods!
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Apple Cider Donut Cake

Apple Cider Donut Cake combines easy ingredients with apple sauce, shredded apples, and apple cider to create a tasty seasonal Bundt cake! Cover it with a cinnamon-sugar topping or a sweet apple cider glaze!
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Homemade Apple Fritters

Homemade Apple Fritters have never been easier than with this apple fritter recipe! Surrounded by a cakey batter and drizzled with glaze, they're perfectly sweet and delicious!  
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Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes

Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes have a creamy caramel cheesecake filling that's covered with tender spiced apples and a sweet oat topping! Prep this mouthwatering Fall dessert in only 30 minutes!
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How to Make Candied Apples

The classic candied apple is a beautifully colorful, glassy red apple. A lollipop candy coating with lush and slightly sour crunchy apple inside.
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This Caramel Apple Poke Cake is one of the best recipes using boxed cake mix! With tons of apples, and cinnamon, this from scratch apple cake will become an instant family favorite! #pokecakerecipes #recipesusingboxedcakemix #applecake #easypokecakerecipes #savoryexperiments www.savoryexperiments.com

Caramel Apple Poke Cake

This Caramel Apple Poke Cake is one of the best recipes using boxed cake mix! With tons of apples, and cinnamon, this from scratch apple cake will become an instant family favorite! 
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Apple Monkey Bread is an easy monkey bread with canned biscuits and fresh apples. A winning brunch and breakfast recipe for special occasions. #monkeybreadrecipe #easymonkeybread www.savoryexperiments.com

Apple Monkey Bread

Apple Monkey Bread is an easy monkey bread with canned biscuits and fresh apples. A winning brunch and breakfast recipe for special occasions. 
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Caramel Apple Bites with Brie are a quick apple tart recipe using puff pastry. The best mix between mini caramel apples and salted caramel apple pie! #minicaramelapples #caramelapplebites www.savoryexperiments.com

Caramel Apple Bites with Brie

Caramel Apple Bites with Brie are a quick apple tart recipe using puff pastry. The best mix between mini caramel apples and salted caramel apple pie!
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Apple Cinnamon Popcorn

Apple Cinnamon Popcorn is a great way to enjoy popcorn as a dessert or snack. Fresh popcorn tossed with honey butter, cinnamon, vanilla and crunchy apple chips.
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Easy Puff Pastry Apple Strudel

Pastry isn’t as challenging as you might think! My Easy Apple Cream Cheese Strudel uses only 6 ingredients and 10 minutes to prepare for a fancy-pants breakfast or dessert!
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Pumpkin Apple Pie with Pecan Crust

Pumpkin Apple Pie is the best of both worlds! Pumpkin pie and apple pie merged together in a pecan crust with streusel topping. The perfect holiday dessert!
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stack of caramel apple cookies on apple with caramels

Caramel Apple Cookie Recipe

Caramel Apple Cookies are the easy and mess free way to enjoy caramel apples! Apple spiced cookie dough stuffed with gooey caramel is the best apple cookie recipe you will ever taste!
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Every year we take the kids to go apple picking. There’s just something about apples picked from a local apple orchard that makes things taste so much better than what you can get at the local grocery store.

We make memories, the kids have a blast and we’re left with a bountiful harvest ready for all the best apples recipes. Some of my favorite dessert recipes are made with apples, so I’ve rounded them all up in one place to share with you.

A delicious dessert is what I usually make with the spoils of our picking, my personal favorite being a good apple crisp recipe or apple crumble. These apple dessert recipes are the perfect way to celebrate the fall season!

​Common Apple Dessert Recipes Ingredients

While all recipes will be different, these are some ingredients that will be helpful to have on hand when making apple recipes:

  • Apples – Some of the most popular apple varieties to use in the best apple desserts are granny smith apples, honeycrisp apples and red delicious apples. But really you can use many different kinds of apples.
  • Spices – Most favorite apple desserts include spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, apple pie spice, and ginger.
  • Pastry – A lot of easy apple desserts have some sort of crust or pastry. A buttery shortbread crust, pie dough, a crumble topping, or even crescent roll dough are all very popular.  

So whether you’re looking for an easy apple crisp, an easy apple cake or even simple baked apples, these best fall desserts are the perfect combination of apples and spice! Let us know in the comments which ones are your favorites!

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Chef Jessica Anne Formicola

Jessica the mom, wife and chef behind Savory Experiments. You might see her on the Emmy- nominated TV show Plate It! or on bookshelves as a cookbook author. Jessica is a Le Cordon Bleu certified recipe developer and regularly contributed to Parade, Better Homes & Gardens, The Daily Meal, Mashed and more!

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Questions and Reviews

  1. From pies to crisps, this recipe collection has it all. The recipes are easy to follow, and the end results are simply mouthwatering. Definitely a must-have for apple lovers!

  2. Good to have this 39 + Best Apple Dessert Recipes, so we have lots of recipes to try. Will definitely make them soon. /thanks for sharing 🙂

  3. Never imagined enjoying Apples in so many delicious ways. Thanks for this awesome recipe collection for Apple Desserts. Very helpful anyday.

  4. My family and I go apple picking every year and always end up with a crazy amount of apples. These apple dessert recipes have been a savoir! Absolutely delicious choices!