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If you are looking for unforgettable recipes to make apple appetizers, you have come to the right place. We have rounded up apple appetizer recipes to help you use up that batch of apples!
We’ve got a secret confession to make: when it comes to apples, none of ours make it much farther than a crumble or a pie.
But now we’ve got no excuse. Our neighbors brought us a heap of apples from Michigan, adding to our last grocery store stockpile of apples, and thus put us on the hunt for apple recipes.
Here are marvelous, mouth-watering apple appetizers that are sure to become a regular fixture at your table.
As the apples in our kitchen age and wither, it may finally be time to reconcile ourselves to the previously unthinkable: we’ve allowed a love for the warm, nostalgia-infused crumbles, pies, and turnovers of our childhood make us thoroughly complacent.
Those gleaming, red towers of fruit generate a gravitational pull we’re helpless to counter.
Trapped in slow, wobbling orbit (and heedless of the looks of pity we’ve begun to draw), it’s easy to convince ourselves that we need more apples.
“We’ll only buy a few,” we think to ourselves, our thoughts already turning to fond memories of school lunches livened by iced apple buns and windowsill-warm pies.
“Ooh, pie . . . we could definitely go for some pie. Maybe even a nice, custard-y crumble?”
Thus the battle is lost — and our failure of imagination wins again.
While an old-school crumble or pie is as good a place to begin as any, there’s a whole lot more an apple could do or be.
From prosciutto-wrapped apples with brie and balsamic vinegar to bacon and brie apple crostini; these apple appetizer recipes prove that even the most shriveled, sad apples-in-waiting have potential.
Apple Pie Dip With Cinnamon Sugar Chips
Enter: Apple Pie Dip + Cinnamon Sugar Crisps. It’s warm, gooey, cinnamon-spiced magic—basically the inside of an apple pie, made for dipping as a salsa! (Crazy, right?) And those crispy cinnamon sugar tortilla chips make the best sweet snack sidekick.
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Creamy Apple Pie Dip
Cream cheese and brown sugar beaten until fluffy, whipped topping that takes it to another level, and folded through with apple pie filling. Set it out with graham crackers and watch it beat every cookie tray in the room to the bottom of the dish.
Air Fryer Apple Pie Filling Egg Rolls
You HAVE to try these air fryer apple pie filling egg rolls — warm, cinnamon-spiced apple pie filling in an eggroll wrapper that crisps and blisters in the air fryer in a snap.
Air Fryer Apple Chips
If you have a bunch of old apples sitting around, you can plot their demise with these air fryer apple chips, too.
Apple Rose Tarts
I’ve been excited to show you this recipe for Apple Rose Tarts—little treats that look like delicate roses! These pretty party desserts are easy, albeit a little time consuming until you get the hang of rolling pastry dough up with apple slices.
Easy Apple Turnovers With Puff Pastry
These apple turnovers use a simple can of apple pie filling, a shortcut version of a bakery classic. I like them warm for breakfast with coffee, but they hold their own on a fall dessert table too.
Prosciutto Wrapped Apples With Brie And Balsamic Vinegar
A riotous, colorful blend of savory and sweet.
Slice apples.
Layer with fresh basil and creamy, dreamy brie.
Wrap it all in salty, razor-thin slices of prosciutto.
Write us an effusive, flowery thank-you note.
Apple Goat Cheese Crostini Appetizer
The quality of the fruit in this excellent take on raw apple appetizers is paramount.
The apples must be firm, crisp and just unyielding enough not to go to mush in one’s mouth.
You’ll want an aged, pungent goat cheese – milder, softer varieties aren’t quite as capable of tempering the sweet apple.
Dust generously with a crackle of black pepper and serve.
Apple Cranberry Brie Bites
Cranberries bring just the right amount of sweet and sour to these superlative cold appetizers.
The finger-food no picnic/potluck/brunch should ever, ever be without.
You’d do well to serve alongside a lovely cranberry-infused alcohol – we’re partial to an icy cranberry vodka.
Bacon Brie Apple Crostini
These are delicate little morsels, but the brie in this apple crostini packs a robust, flavorful punch that’ll fill you right up.
Delightfully, unashamedly rich – this is one for a chilly fall day.
The bottom line
And here we are! We’ve arrived at the end of yet another roundup of easy appetizer recipes.
An abundance of apples at this time of year means an abundance of apple-centered dishes: salsas and wraps and cheese plates and pies.
No matter what kind of apple you’ve got on hand – whether they’re granny smith apples, or Goldspurs or Melbas – there’s no shortage of seasonal recipes to help you ward off that autumnal chill a little while longer.
