Apple Pancakes

These pancakes are perfect for a crisp fall morning. There is no better way to describe them.

Recipe adapted from here.

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
2 tablespoon brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
dash of salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter, melted and cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sweet apple, finely chopped

Directions:
In a medium bow, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl combine milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. It's okay if mix has some lumps; you don't want to overmix. Fold in apple.

Grease a skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Pour 1/4 cup batter on the skillet. Cook until small bubbles form on the edges of the pancakes, about 1 or 2 minutes, then flip. Cook other side until golden brown, about 1 minute. Repeat with remaining batter.

Serve with maple syrup.

Enjoy!

~Krissy

More Apple Recipes:
Baked Apple Chips
Savory Apples Stuffed with Sage and Sausage
An Apple Cider Birthday Cake
Apple Cider Cookies with Spiced Rum Glaze
Applesauce Cookies with Caramel Frosting
Delicious Apple Pie 
Apple Rings!
Peanut Butter Baked Apples

Apple Pie Salsa with Cinnamon-Sugar Chips

Have a hankering for homemade apple pie, but don't feel like going through the work of making one? Then this apple pie salsa is for you. The salsa is just apple pie filling made on the stovetop. And instead of making pie crust by hand, transform tortillas into cinnamon-sugar chips in just 10 minutes.

Recipe adapted from here.

Ingredients:
Apple Pie Salsa
2 cups finely diced apple, peeled and cored (I used 1 very large Mutsu apple)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cornstarch disolved in 1 teaspoon water

Cinnamon-Sugar Chips
5 6-inch tortillas (store bought or homemade)
cooking spray (or 2 tablespoon butter, melted)
1/4 cup cinnamon-sugar

Directions:
Cinnamon-Sugar Chips
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease a baking sheet.

Cut tortillas into wedges. Spray both sides of the chips with cooking spray (or brush with butter. I used cooking spray to make them slightly healthier). Coat both sides of the chips with cinnamon-sugar. Arrange of the baking sheet in a single layer.

Bake for 7 to 10 minutes, flipping the chips halfway through the baking.

Place on a wire rack and allow to cool. Store in an airtight container.

Apple Pie Salsa
Combine the diced apple, lemon juice, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a saucepan. Heat over medium-high heat until the extracted juice from the apples begins to boil. Add cornstarch water and stir. Continue to boil until liquid has thickened.

Serve with cinnamon-sugar chips.

Enjoy!

~Krissy

More Apple Recipes:
Baked Apple Chips
Savory Apples Stuffed with Sage and Sausage
Apple Cider Cookies with Spiced Rum Glaze
Apple Cider Cupcakes with Caramel Filling and Spiced Rum Frosting
Applesauce Cookies with Caramel Frosting
Delicious Apple Pie 
Cheese Tortellini in a Pumpkin Sauce
Cinnamon-Sugar Pastry with Pumpkin Dip
Mini Pumpkin Cupcakes
Pumpkin-Black Bean Stew with Spicy Sausage  

Peanut Butter Baked Apples

I've been really inspired by apples this season. I have been meaning to make baked apples for a while now. Well, there were only two Fuji apples left in the fridge so I knew it was now or never (maybe that's a little dramatic. Now or wait until I make it to the store again). I have looked through a dozen different baked apple recipes and they're all pretty much the same: oatmeal, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Some add raisins. Some add pecans or walnuts. I wanted something a little different. Then I found one with peanut butter. Apples and peanut butter, there nothing else like it.

Recipe adapted from here.

Ingredients:
2 large apples
1/2 cup instant oatmeal
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon creamy peanut butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Slice the tops off the apples and scoop out the core, seeds, and flesh. I used a regular spoon, but a melon baller probably would have been easier. Discard the insides.

In a small bowl, mix together the oatmeal, brown sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Add peanut butter and mix until it forms a crumble. It's easiest to use your hands.

Stuff the apples with the mixture and place them in a glass baking dish.* Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the apples are tender. Remove the foil for the last five minutes to allow the tops to crisp.

*My apples were small so I cut the recipe in half and used ramkins to bake them because, honestly, I didn't want to dirty my 8x8-inch glass pan for two little apples.

Enjoy!

~Krissy

More Apple Recipes
Baked Apple Chips
Savory Baked Apples Stuffed with Sausage
Delicious Apple Pie
Apple Cider Cupcakes with Caramel Filling and Spiced Rum Frosting

Apple Rings!

Source

I can tell you right now that these apple rings are going to become a yearly tradition in our house. It's kind of like eating apple pie but in onion ring form. They are best right out of the oven, hot and crispy, and everything a fall treat should be. I found the recipe here, changed it just a little, and reduced the servings since these delectable treats are best right out of the oven and don't keep for long. Two apples fed four of us.

Ingredients:
2 apples
1 large egg white
1/3 cup water
splash of vanilla
1/3 cup flour
pinch of salt
canola oil for frying
cinnamon-sugar*

Cinnamon Glaze:
1 tablespoon, butter, melted
large pinch of cinnamon
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1-3 tablespoons of milk

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a medium bowl, whisk egg white until foamy. Whisk in the water and vanilla. Set aside. In another medium bowl whisk together flour and salt. Set aside. Pour cinnamon-sugar in a shallow dish. Set aside.

Peel your apples. If you have a coring device, core your apples then slice them into 1/2-inch slices. If you don't have an apple corer--I don't--slice your apples into 1/2-inch slices then use a paring knife to cut the centers out of each apple slice. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.

Heat your oil over medium-high heat. Dip each apple slice in the egg mixture, then the flour, and carefully set it in the oil. Working in small batches, repeat with the rest of the apple rings. When the rings turns a golden brown, place them on a towel paper-lined plate. Once the rings have cooled enough to handle, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Place the apple rings on a cookies sheet and place them in the oven to crisp up. Bake for 5 to 10 minutes or until the rings become crisp.

While the rings are in the oven, make the glaze. Mix all the ingredients together except for the milk. Add the milk a tablespoon at a time until you reach your desired consistency.

Remove the apple rings from the oven and drizzle the glaze over them. Serve warm.

I went a little heavy on the glaze since I was making the plate up for Eric.

*We usually have cinnamon-sugar on hand. Mix 1/2 cup granulated sugar with 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon. Store in an air-tight container at room temperature.

Next time I makes these, I plan on doing two things differently.

Number 1: Have Eric do the frying since he is the superior fryer (I may or may not have filled the kitchen with smoke while making these)

Number 2: Eat these amazing fall treats with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy!

~Krissy

Also Check These Fall Recipes:  
Acorn Donuts
Applesauce Cookies with Caramel Frosting
Cheese Tortellini in a Pumpkin Sauce
Cinnamon-Sugar Pastry with Pumpkin Dip
Mini Pumpkin Pies
Baked Apple Chips
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies
                                                      Pumpkin Caramels!

Baked Apple Chips

Every autumn Eric and I go to the cider mill in St. Johns, host a fall dinner party, and go apple picking. Sadly, this year there will be no apple picking. The dry, scorching hot summer hurt a lot of farmers, including the apple orchards. Even if we can't pick our own apples this year, we can still buy them at the grocery store. So I am starting my apple cooking/baking with apple chips, a tasty, healthy autumn snack.

Ingredients:
1 apple
1 tablespoon cinnamon
pinch of nutmeg
1/2 tablespoon sugar
pinch of salt

Directions:
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. 

Mix cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and salt together in a small bowl. Set aside.

Cut both ends of the apple. Using a mandoline, slice the apples as thin as possible. The thinner the slices, the crisper your chips will be. Remove any seeds from the slices.

Place the apple slices on the baking sheets in a single later. Rub the spice mixture onto one side of the apple slices.

I almost forgot to take a picture of the unbaked apple chips.

Bake for 30 minutes, flip the chips over, and bake for another 30 to 60 minutes or until the chips are lightly browned and crisp. Allow to cool.

I love how the edges become wavy.

Enjoy!

~Krissy

Also Check These Fall Recipes:  
Acorn Donuts
Applesauce Cookies with Caramel Frosting
Pumpkin-Black Bean Soup with Spicy Sausage 
Cheese Tortellini in a Pumpkin Sauce
Cinnamon-Sugar Pastry with Pumpkin Dip
Mini Pumpkin Pies
Pumpkin Bread!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies
Pumpkin Caramels!
Pumpkin Oatmeal



More Chip Recipes:
Banana Chips
Potato Chips in the Microwave
Zucchini Chips in the Microwave
Homemade Pita Chips