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22 Easy Apple Desserts That Are Quick to Make

By Food & Wine Updated July 30, 2020
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When fall rolls around, apple pie is the obvious dessert—bursting with fresh, soft apples and a crispy crust. However, there are plenty of other ways we love to make the most out of apple season, including an apple cake with toffee crust (made all the more indulgent with a scoop of ice cream) and a light and fluffy apple sharlotka. Read on for those recipes, and all the other apple desserts we can't get enough of.

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Apple-Pomegranate Cobbler


Apple-Pomegranate Cobbler
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This juicy and bright apple cobbler is just the right amount of sweet, with an irresistibly tender and crunchy crust on top.

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Tarte Tatin

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Golden Delicious apples are perfect in this classic version of tarte tatin from chef Jonathan Waxman because they get perfectly tender while they bake but never lose their shape.

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Maple-Apple Upside-Down Cake

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This is one of the best upside-down cakes ever—the maple syrup infuses both the apples and the cake, making the dessert taste like a stack of apple pancakes.

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Country Apple Galette

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Jacques Pépin loves to serve this delicate apple tart as a buffet dessert, since it's beautiful, easy to slice and simple to eat, pizza-style, while standing. The miraculously easy and versatile pastry dough comes together in a food processor in less than 20 seconds and can be filled with all sorts of fruits or vegetables. Because the tart is free-form, the pastry can be rolled into either a round or a rectangle.

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Apple Pie Bars

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These bars have a nutty, streusel-like topping and a crisp shortbread crust.

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Double-Crust Apple Pie

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Grace Parisi uses a mix of Granny Smith, Pink Lady and Golden Delicious apples for this iconic dessert.

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Apple Bread Pudding

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In a reality-TV moment that shocked us all, Tre Wilcox of Top Chef Season 3 was eliminated after preparing a dense, dull apple bread pudding in an epic Restaurant Wars. Gail Simmons rescues his recipe by sautéing the apples in brandy and butter, then soaking both them and brioche in lots of vanilla custard before baking.

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Fried Apple Pies

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Apple pie is incredible on its own—but fried? Even better.

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Apple Tart with Almond Cream

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In this delicious dessert, the thin, crisp pastry shell is filled with a layer of almond cream made from both finely ground and coarsely chopped nuts that give the tart layers of texture. The thinly sliced apples on top caramelize as the tart bakes.

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Apple Cake with Toffee Crust

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When pastry chef Lara Atkins was little, her mother made this cake for her bridge club; Atkins remembers how she and her brothers would have to wait (and wait and wait) for their slices until all the ladies of the club had served themselves. Atkins now makes the cake for her son, who never has to wait for his piece.

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Spiced Upside-Down Apple Bundt Cake

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David Guas, co-author of the cookbook DamGoodSweet, tops his apple Bundt cake with a nicely salty streusel of pecans and toasted rolled oats. He bakes the streusel on its own to make it extraordinarily crisp, then pats it over the warm cake right out of the oven.

  • Lessons from Cake Experts Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

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Apple Pie Granita

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Natural-style apple juice—less filtered than regular—is high in vitamin C and antioxidants. Here, Emeril Lagasse transforms it into a refreshing granita.

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Granny Smith Apple and Brown Butter Custard Tart

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Kate Neumann often showcases rich, nutty, fragrant browned butter in her desserts. Here, she adds it to a sweet custard loaded with caramelized apples and baked in a buttery tart shell.

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Apple Crisp with Dried Cranberries

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For this dessert, chef Lee Woolver recommends a tart apple, like the Northern Spy variety that grows all over upstate New York. To make the recipe more decadent, he often adds chocolate chips.

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Apple Pandowdy

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This pandowdy is the perfect fall dessert.

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Caramelized Apple Clafoutis

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This lightly sweet pastry, studded with caramelized apple, is one component of an elaborate dish entitled Brillat-Savarin. Its major ingredients—apples, créme fraîche, Calvados and the Brillat-Savarin cheese—all come from Normandy in France.

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Apple Cider Cream Pie

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In 2009, Allison Kave and her boyfriend, Jay Horton, were winners in Brooklyn, New York's Pie Bake-Off with this clever pie. The challenge was to use a local ingredient, so they chose apple cider and developed this delicious combination of cream pie and apple pie.

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Apple Sharlotka

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Chef Matt Danko uses his father's recipe to make sharlotka, a deliciously light and fluffy Russian apple cake.

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Apple and Olive Oil Bundt Cake

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At Coyle's Bakeshop in Seattle, chef-owner Rachael Coyle always keeps a Bundt cake or two in the case. This autumnal version, an adaptation of an Italian apple cake, is moist and light, fragrant with freshly ground spices and studded with chunks of fruit. In the spring, substitute fresh rhubarb for the apples.

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Apple Pie à la Mode Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Top Chef winner Kristen Kish designed this dessert to honor both of her grandmothers, one known for her apple pie and the other for her snickerdoodles. Kish folds spiced apple pie filling into vanilla ice cream, then sandwiches it between chewy snickerdoodle cookies.

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Apple Tart with Apricot Glaze

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Frank Stitt, owner of Highlands Bar & Grill in Birmingham, Alabama, started his culinary education by working for the late great cookbook author Richard Olney in Provence, France. This tart is the final dish in a dinner party menu designed by Stitt and inspired by Olney's love of seasonal produce and great wine.

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Deep-Dish All-American Cinnamon Apple Pie

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This pie—one of our 40 best recipes—gets its intensely apple-y flavor from macerating the apples in sugar for an hour. The liquid drained from the apples is simmered with a hit of butter until a syrup forms. That rich syrup is mixed with the apples, piled into the crust, and baked until tender and delicious. The pie is excellent the day it's made, but even better the next day.

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    1 of 22 Apple-Pomegranate Cobbler

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    4 of 22 Country Apple Galette
    5 of 22 Apple Pie Bars
    6 of 22 Double-Crust Apple Pie
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    9 of 22 Apple Tart with Almond Cream
    10 of 22 Apple Cake with Toffee Crust
    11 of 22 Spiced Upside-Down Apple Bundt Cake
    12 of 22 Apple Pie Granita
    13 of 22 Granny Smith Apple and Brown Butter Custard Tart
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    15 of 22 Apple Pandowdy
    16 of 22 Caramelized Apple Clafoutis
    17 of 22 Apple Cider Cream Pie
    18 of 22 Apple Sharlotka
    19 of 22 Apple and Olive Oil Bundt Cake
    20 of 22 Apple Pie à la Mode Ice Cream Sandwiches
    21 of 22 Apple Tart with Apricot Glaze
    22 of 22 Deep-Dish All-American Cinnamon Apple Pie

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