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If you’ve got a few apples out in a bowl that aren’t getting any fresher, it’s time to put ’em in one of your new favorite desserts.
Apple season is here, and we’re ready to celebrate! 🍎 From Caramel Apple Snack Cake (Apple Dapple Cake) to Apple Pie Dip with Cinnamon Chips, and Apple Rose Tarts, these recipes prove apples belong in every dessert lineup.
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1. Caramel Apple Cake (Apple Dapple Cake)
Serve with fresh whipped cream, maple syrup, or vanilla ice cream, this easy caramel apple snack cake is quick to make and disappears even faster.
2. Apple Fritter Monkey Bread
This easy recipe starts out with a couple cans of biscuit dough, and you slather on some fall’s greatest hits: Butter, brown sugar, sundae caramel sauce, and it bakes up into a delectable pull-apart brunch bread everyone will enjoy.
Apple Rose Tarts
You may see these dusted with powdered sugar, but these muffin-sized treats are even better with a caramel drizzle!
Baked Apples with Cinnamon Oat Stuffing
It took us a couple tries to find the perfect kind of oats, peeled or unpeeled apples, level of sweetness. And the result is…really, whichever suits your fancy. Without the peel, these cut easily with a fork right out of the air fryer. Old Fashioned Oats leave a bit of chewiness. Call it dessert or an after-school snack, these really hit the spot.
Simple Sauteed Apples
If you just need a touch of something sweet, this recipe will make a glossy, rich homemade apple-pie filling that you can eat with a spoon. The sugar level is entirely customizable, and you can make this exactly the way you want it.
Apple Pie Dip + Cinnamon Sugar Chips
It’s all the luscious, thick apple-pie filling without the work of the crust. Make it a new party favorite and add the easy homemade dipper chips alongside.
Baked Cinnamon Apple Slices
This recipe’s ridiculously easy—apples, butter, and a few spices you’ve probably got sitting in your pantry right now. These become an aromatic and sweet treat without the fuss of pie.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
This recipe uses a bakery method: a hit of high heat then tempered to allow for that wonderful domed muffin top. If you like a crumb topping, I’ve included steps to add it on these tender cinnamon apple muffins.
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. No oven needed—the mixer and the fridge do most of the work.
Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls
These apple pie cinnamon rolls use cut and quartered canned cinnamon rolls folded into a can of apple pie filling then drizzled with that little can of vanilla icing that comes with the rolls. From a casual finger food to a fork-and-knife brunch dessert in an 8×8 pan.
Apple Danish
This is an open-faced treat made with store-bought puff pastry and canned apple pie filling (or make your own if you have lots of apples to use up). You get 12 danishes from this recipe, so if it’s a special brunch, you may want to double the amounts.
Apple Dump Cake
Combine the two with some pats of butter and you get a sweet casserole that is like a fruit cobbler with a crackly top. Add a scoop of ice cream and it’s the easy dessert for last-minute company or to keep a few teens happy on a Friday night.
Apple Cinnamon Biscuit Loaf
This apple cinnamon biscuit loaf is pull-apart bread wearing its Sunday best: canned flaky-layer biscuit halves dipped in melted butter, rolled in cinnamon sugar, layered in with chopped apple pie filling, then baked in a loaf pan. It looks like an all-day project but really, it’s a can of Pillsbury biscuits and about 15 minutes of dipping.
Apple Turnovers
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.
Apple Pie Filling Cookies
These soft apple pie filling cookies use just four ingredients: a spice cake mix, unsweetened applesauce, chopped apple pie filling, and a caramel drizzle. (No eggs or oil!) The cookies bake up more like the top of a luscious muffin than a crisp cookie, full of jammy apples and spice-cake flavor. Super easy and splendid with a hot tea or coffee.
Apple Pie Bread Pudding
This apple pie bread pudding uses a loaf of sliced brioche bread (I think they even still sell this at Aldi) and your base is ready. It’s a sweet dessert as is, but add a little ice cream on the side if you want that fancy touch.
Apple Crisp with Apple Pie Filling
But canned apple filling saves a lot of time and prep. Why not let a handful of pantry ingredients do all the work this time around with this easy apple crisp?
Apple Coffee Cake
You get this apple coffee cake by combining a soft vanilla cake with a ribbon of apple pie filling and a thick cinnamon crumble that bakes into craggy, golden clusters. The brown sugar crumble is the part everyone picks at first.
Apple Pie Filling Muffins
These apple pie filling muffins come from just three ingredients, a box of spice cake mix, a can of apple pie filling, plus eggs. You get tender, sweet muffins without the fuss of homemade.
Air Fryer Apple Pie Filling Egg Rolls
A brush of melted butter and a roll through cinnamon sugar gives each one a crackly, churro-like coating, and the filling inside is soft and jammy. Fifteen minutes of rolling, ten in the basket, and you have a plate of hand-held apple pies.
Apple Cobbler with Apple Pie Filling
This one uses a box of butter cake mix —lots of rich, sweet buttery vanilla flavor with cans of apple pie filling, so no peeling and dicing. It’s a “dump cake” casserole dessert that’s really a cobbler, and the easiest, tastiest one yet.
Apple Cinnamon Rolls
We love easy here, and I had to run this by you guys: a simple can of Grands Cinnamon Rolls levels up with a simple addition of apple pie filling. The icing comes in the container, and you add it like you normally would at the end of baking.
Baked Apple Cider Donuts
Get homemade flavor with this baked apple cider donuts recipe: I stir spice cake mix, applesauce and apple cider (not juice) into one bowl and the batter comes out thick. Dunk each donut into a bowl of cinnamon sugar so it comes out looking sandy.
The bottom line
Apples are insanely delicious on their own—apple fans agree. If you have a backyard tree and you’ve given away all the apples you could, it’s time to do a practice round of holiday baking and treat yo’self.
I looked far and wide for this recipe. Love it.