The ultimate collection of apple recipes to help celebrate the beginning of autumn, from sweet muffins, breads, and desserts, to the savory main course!
Fall is one of my favorite seasons, especially when my family comes home from apple picking with cases of freshly harvested apples! I love to make everything from baking sweets and breads, to savory dinners balanced with the natural sweetness of apples. For breakfast, I recommend starting with a Sausage and Apple French Toast Bake, the perfect dish for a holiday morning when you have guests over. For dinner, try my Pork Chops with Apples and Onions, ready in under 30 minutes for busy nights! If you’re looking for something to do with a bag of apples you picked this week, or want some new fun fall recipes to try, this collection has everything you need to keep busy in the kitchen!
Autumn Apple Recipes
The ultimate collection of apple recipes, with everything from dessert bars and pies to pork chops and applesauce!
A few of my favorite ways to use apples for breakfast, with warm spices that your entire family will love!
Apple Crisp Cinnamon Rolls
Apple Crisp Cinnamon Rolls are homemade cinnamon rolls filled with cinnamon apple pie filling, topped with a brown sugar oat crumble and cream cheese icing.
If you love to bake, these bread and muffin recipes will make your entire kitchen smell amazing! Enjoy them with a warm cup of coffee in the morning, or as a sweet treat at night.
Apple Bread Recipe
Apple Bread is the perfect moist and sweet quick bread recipe for the Fall and Winter months. Enjoy it with a cup of coffee or as a dessert!
Easy Apple Muffins are quick melt-in-your-mouth buttermilk muffins with tons of apple cinnamon and brown sugar flavor. The perfect fall breakfast on the go!
Apple Pie Muffins are super moist and flavorful fall muffin recipe made with red apple chunks, buttermilk, cinnamon, nutmeg and a brown sugar crumb topping.
Apple Crisp Quick Bread is soft, moist, and rich with a crumbly brown sugar, oat crisp topping. Flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, apples, and vanilla extract.
Some of my favorite old-fashioned apple pie recipes, with a few of my own twists! I’ve also included my homemade apple pie filling, along with all of my cooking tips.
Apple Pie Recipe
Apple Pie is a classic American dessert, famous for its warm, comforting flavor and beautifully baked golden crust. Perfect for any holiday!
A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it’s a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!
Caramel Apple Cobbler is the ultimate autumn treat. Baked apples, sweet caramel, cinnamon, and a buttery dough all come together in this delicious recipe!
These apple cakes are so incredibly moist and tender, they’re the perfect dessert to feed a crowd! You can also bring these to brunch for a sweet treat!
Apple Dump Cake Recipe
Apple Dump Cake is an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert with a golden, buttery topping and a sweet drizzle that is perfect for fall gatherings!
The sweet and savory flavor combination that happens when you pair apples with your favorite protein is so good that your guests will be asking you for the recipe every time!
Applesauce BBQ Chicken Recipe
Applesauce BBQ Chicken is cooked quickly and coated with a glossy, sweet, and spicy glaze that delivers big, robust flavors in every bite!
A few more desserts that I couldn’t leave out of this collection, these apple recipes have that old-fashioned autumn flavor that everyone craves once the fall weather arrives!
Apple Crostata Recipe
Apple Crostata is a simple, easy, and delicious rustic apple tart that is perfect for holidays and cozy winter nights. Try it out tonight!
The type of apple you choose can depend on what you’re making and what the cooking method is, so make sure you check the recipe and buy the right type! Let me know in the comments section below which of my apple recipes you loved the most. For more cozy recipe ideas, try my other collections, 30 Cozy Comforting Recipes for Chilly Fall Nights, and my Cozy Soup Recipes for Fall!
About the Author: Sabrina Snyder
Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.
Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.
She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.
She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.
As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.
Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.
As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.
Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.
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