Apple Desserts: 21 Awesome Apple-tizing Ideas Fit For Any Party!

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End your meal on a sweet note with 21 apple desserts everyone will love.

Apple season is here, and we’re ready to celebrate! 🍎 From Caramel Apple Snack Cake (Apple Dapple Cake) to Apple Enchiladas, Apple Pie Dip, 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. Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp

This dessert features golden delicious apples combined with cinnamon, lemon juice, old-fashioned, sugar, flour, and butter. The result? Nostalgia in a bowl.

3. Apple Cider Donuts

A fluffy and moist inside is revealed once you take a bite on these apple cider donuts. The combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, sugar, and buttermilk is behind their amazing flavor. Top these donuts with butter, sugar, and nutmeg for a luscious finish.

4. Baked Apple Fritters

Drizzled with sweet vanilla glaze, this apple breakfast pastry will remind you why you love sinfully sweet treats. Cut down a bit on the richness with a dusting of cinnamon instead of the glaze.

5. Apple Rose Tarts

You may see these dusted with powdered sugar, but these muffin-sized treats are even better with a caramel drizzle!

6. Apple Cider Donut Cake

The blend of Honeycrisp apple, allspice, and nutmeg adds a slight sweetness to this apple cider donut cake.  The recipe has a ton of steps, but it’s worth it!

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Apple Pie Enchiladas

I’m not sure what’s more appealing: the caramel drizzle or the crisp-chewy tortilla shell or or or… so as a finisher on Taco Tuesday or anytime you have a can of apple pie filling, this might be the dessert plan!

10. Cider-Glazed Apple Scones

This is an easy apple dessert sure to impress with its buttery, flaky, and melt-in-your-mouth scones, bits of tender apples, and fabulous cider glaze. 

Make these scones and take them to potlucks, parties, or any family gathering for endless entertaining.

11. Apple Crisp Cheesecake

If you’re looking for a dessert for your fall dinner party, then the hunt ends here. Behold, the apple crisp cheesecake. Made with basic ingredients, this apple dessert recipe is topped with cinnamon apples, crumble topping, and heavenly caramel sauce—it’s truly worth making!

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Irish Apple Cake

This Irish apple cake may appear intimidating at first glance, but with a few basic ingredients, you’ll have this on the table in an hour. It’s laden with flavors from fresh apples, streusel topping, and custard sauce. 

15. Apple Blondies

These chewy and sweet apple blondies have a secret…the blend of cinnamon and sugar! They taste like your traditional apple pie. The addition of chopped walnuts lends a nice crunch to this straightforward dessert. 

16. Cinnamon Apple Cobbler

If you’re in the south, you are probably well aware of how popular peach cobbler is at most BBQs and picnics in the summer. Well, swap out fall’s favorite fruit and you get that righteous biscuit dough on top of a stellar pie filling.

17. Cinnamon Sugar Apple Muffins

Trust me, these cinnamon sugar apple muffins are so delicious that everyone begged for more. They’re soft and filled with juicy apples and coated with sugar and cinnamon—these muffins are the perfect excuse to have dessert for breakfast!

18. Apple Dumplings

Expecting a new spin on dumplings? You’re in for a sweet surprise! These apple dumplings are smothered in a syrup of 7-up soda, sugar, and butter then baked to golden brown perfection. Pro tip: You can make these dumplings ahead; just don’t put the soda in the mix until it’s ready for baking. 

19. Apple Pecan Cake

Be warned—the glaze on this apple pecan cake oozes with caramel goodness—you can’t handle it! Make this epic cake by combining Granny Smith apples, vanilla, cinnamon, pecans, sugar, eggs, and flour. Once the cake is done, pour the caramel glaze over the top of it.

20. Apple Strudel

If you want to impress at this year’s get-together, serve this apple strudel to the guests! The secret to this fall dessert is the thick and flavorful homemade apple pie filling which is bursting with tender and juicy apples. 

21. Apple Hand Pies

Chopped apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg add a new dimension to the sweet filling and buttery-flaky pie crust in this totally portable apple dessert.

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.

🍏 We’re also big fans of apple appetizers, too! 🍏