Easy Fall Apple Desserts
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Looking for the best easy apple desserts? Here you'll find delicious recipes for everything from apple pies and crisps to cakes, breads, scones, cinnamon rolls, and more. Perfect for fall baking, or anytime you're craving a cozy, sweet treat.
Why I Love Apple Desserts
There's something about apple season that makes the kitchen feel extra cozy. From the first crisp days of late summer through the holidays, apple desserts are timeless favorites that never go out of style.
Whether I'm baking for the family dinner, a weekend treat, an autumn afternoon tea, or to fill the house with the fragrance of cinnamon and apples, these recipes are where I always begin.
This collection of apple desserts ranges from rustic pies and crisps to elegant cakes, muffins, breads, scones, and even quick options like mug cakes. Each is easy, tested, and highlights the best apple flavors!
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Apple Pies & Crisps
Few desserts capture the flavor of fall like a classic apple pie recipe and crisps. These easy recipes highlight flaky crusts, warm spices, and sweet-tart apples in every bite:
- Apple Slab Pie - A crowd-pleasing pie baked in a sheet pan with layers of tender apples and a golden, buttery crust-perfect for gatherings.
- Apple Hand Pies (Air Fryer or Oven) - Portable and irresistible, these hand pies deliver all the flavor of apple pie in a tidy, hand-held package.
- Crock Pot Apple Crisp - A no-fuss dessert that practically makes itself, with spiced apples bubbling under a crunchy oat topping.
Apple Cakes & Muffins
From cozy weeknight cakes to quick single-serve treats, apple cakes and muffins bring warmth and comfort to everyday baking:
- Apple Spice Bundt Cake - A moist, spiced cake with tender apple pieces, baked in a bundt pan for an impressive yet simple dessert.
- Apple Coffee Cake with Caramel Sauce - Soft layers of cinnamon-spiced cake topped with buttery crumble and drizzled with rich caramel sauce.
- Apple Mug Cake - A single-serving dessert made in minutes, this mug cake is the perfect quick fix when a craving hits. For a variation, try this quick apple crisp in a mug!
Apple Breads
Apple breads are some of the coziest bakes, perfect for breakfast, snacking, or sharing with friends. These loaves combine soft crumb, warm spices, and bursts of fresh apple flavor:
- Apple Fritter Bread - A swirled loaf with layers of cinnamon-sugar apples and a sweet glaze that tastes just like a bakery favorite.
- Apple Visiting Cake - A tender, rustic cake-like bread that's simple enough for everyday but special enough to serve with tea.
- Apple Oatmeal Bread - A hearty, wholesome muffin bread loaf with oats and apples that makes a perfect breakfast or afternoon snack.
Easy Apple Dessert Recipes
1
Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe
An old fashioned sweet condiment becomes a late summer and early autumn treasure. Slow Cooker Apple Butter couldn't be easier.
Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe
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Crock Pot Apple Crisp Recipe
Warm, cozy, and effortless - this Crock Pot Apple Crisp (Slow Cooker Apple Crisp) is a fall favorite with tender apples, cinnamon spice, and a buttery oat topping. Perfect for autumn gatherings or a weeknight dessert.
Crock Pot Apple Crisp Recipe
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Apple Coffee Cake with Caramel Sauce
This Apple Coffee Cake with Pecan Streusel and Caramel Sauce is an incredible way to enjoy morning coffee or a sweet treat later in the day. It's a tender and soft apple spiced cake made with fresh apple and topped with delicious streusel. And then... drizzled in caramel. Are you hungry yet?
Apple Coffee Cake Recipe
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Apple Hand Pies (Oven and Air Fryer) Recipe
Make easy homemade apple hand pies with a delicious cinnamon apple filling in the oven or air fryer. A scrumptious treat for any occasion.
Apple Hand Pies Recipe
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Easy French Apple Hand Pies
This French Apple Hand Pies recipe is a super easy, delicious adaptation of French Apple Pie. And are reminiscent of a favorite boulangerie. Simple and sweet, perfect with a cup of tea.
French Apple Hand Pies Recipe
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Easy Apple Spice Bundt Cake
Apple Spice Bundt Cake is one of the easiest, prettiest, most delicious apple spice cakes you can make. Made with fresh apples and warm fall spices, it's soft and tender with a stick to your fork moist crumb. And easy? Absolutely!
Apple Spice Bundt Cake Recipe
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Apple Tarte Tatin Recipe
This Apple Tarte Tatin is a delicious, French-inspired apple tart, baked in rich caramel sauce, that's perfect to serve during apple season, or anytime you're craving sweet baked apples with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Apple Tarte Tatin Recipe
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Apple Cinnamon Scones Recipe
These Apple Cinnamon Scones are flaky, tender, and utterly delicious. Topped with maple cinnamon glaze, they are easy and perfect for fall.
Apple Cinnamon Scones Recipe
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Apple Oatmeal Muffins Recipe
Moist, tender, and warmly spiced, these Apple Oatmeal Muffins are a wholesome treat for breakfast, snacks, or lunchboxes. Filled with fresh apples and hearty oats, they're quick to make and freezer-friendly.
Apple Oatmeal Muffins Recipe
10
Easy Apple Crisp Recipe
An easy Apple Crisp recipe for days when you're craving comfort food like grandma used to make. A simple to make apple dessert served warm from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Oven Baked Apple Crisp Recipe
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Simple Anytime Apple Cake Recipe
This simple Apple Cake is really an Anytime Apple Cake. Which simply means it's an easy to make light and airy buttery cake, filled with fresh apples, warm spices, and topped with crunchy chopped walnuts. That's perfect… anytime!
Easy Apple Cake Recipe
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Easy Apple Slab Pie
This Apple Slab Pie recipe is a simple way to make an apple pie that feeds a crowd and is 100% delicious with warm spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Using ready-made crusts speeds up the process and delivers a fabulous pie everyone will love.
Apple Slab Pie Recipe
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Apple Cinnamon Blondies Recipe
Apple Cinnamon Blondies are one of my favorite fall treats. The flavors of the season imbue every single bite. Perfect for lunch sacks, after school snacks, tailgating and game day treats!
Apple Cinnamon Blondies Recipe
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Easy Apple Strudel
This Easy Apple Strudel recipe, or Apfelstrudel, is a centuries-old classic made easy with store-bought pastry. Perfect for entertaining, bake sales, or simply inviting the neighbors over for tea... and strudel.
Easy Apple Strudel Recipe
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Apple Fritter Bread Recipe
Apple Fritter Bread is a decadent treat packed with layers of sweet, cinnamon-spiced apples in a soft and moist quick bread. Drizzled with vanilla glaze, it's reminiscent of a favorite donut-shop fritter. Perfect for morning coffee or always with tea.
Apple Fritter Bread
16
Cranberry Apple Galette Recipe
This cranberry apple galette is a lot like apple pie, but a whole lot easier! It's beautiful, impressive, effortless, and oh-so-delicious! Perfect for your holiday table or anytime you're craving pie, the easy way!
Cranberry Apple Galette Recipe
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Apple Oatmeal Bread Recipe
This Apple Oatmeal Bread is everything you love about apple muffins, baked into a soft and wholesome quick bread loaf. Filled with shredded apple, hearty oats, and warm spices, it's an easy recipe that's perfect for breakfast, afternoon tea, or a cozy snack any time of day.
Easy Apple Oatmeal Bread Recipe
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Caramel Apple Bites
These Caramel Apple Bites are bite-size treats made with 3 ingredients in minutes. They're a perfect party food, snack, dessert, or Halloween treat!
Caramel Apple Bites Recipe
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3 Minute Apple Mug Cake Recipe
This Apple Mug Cake is a 3-minute microwave mug cake dessert that's perfect for the season. Sweet, delicious, and oh-so-easy!
Apple Mug Cake Recipe
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Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Fall in love with the taste of homemade apple cinnamon rolls. Fluffy rolls filled with fresh apples and topped with maple icing.
Apple Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
21
Instant Pot Apple Butter (Naturally Sweetened)
Make delicious Instant Pot Apple Butter at home with this easy recipe. Enjoy the perfect fall treat that's healthy and naturally sweetened.
Instant Pot Apple Butter Recipe
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Mini Puff Pastry Apple Tart with Caramel Sauce
Celebrate the season with this quick and easy puff pastry Apple Tart that makes its own buttery and cinnamon caramel sauce. A mini, individual dessert that's utterly simple to make.
Mini Apple Tarts Recipe
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Apple Spice Visiting Cake
Apple Spice Visiting Cake is a buttery and moist fall cake with autumn spices that permeate every bite. It's a simple cake, with simple ingredients, to have ready for guests, or to bring to a favorite friend.
Apple Visiting Cake Recipe
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Apple Dumplings with Maple Caramel Syrup
Apple Dumplings with Maple Caramel Syrup are a rite of fall passage in our house. Tender apples, wrapped in flaky pastry; sweet with maple, warmed with cinnamon... and mouth-wateringly delicious. Simply put, every... single... bite is like tasting autumnal splendor in every spoonful.
Apple Dumplings Recipe
25
Baked Apple Cider Donuts Recipe
Irresistibly delicious Apple Cider Donuts. While these doughnuts are baked using 6-cavity doughnut pans, they can easily be made into doughnut holes by using a mini muffin pan. Or even baked into standard size muffin tins by adding a few more minutes of baking.
Apple Cider Donuts Recipe
More Apple Recipes You'll Love
- Crock Pot Apple Crisp (Slow Cooker Apple Crisp)
- Roasted Fall Vegetables
- Cast Iron Irish Apple Cake
- German Apple Kuchen
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