It’s that time of year again and apples are in season. Why not take advantage of the abundance of this fruit? I scoured the Internet in hopes to find not-so-average ways to use apples. Here are 15 ways you can do just that:
1. Cider-Poached Apples Nothing’s better than warm apples with a taste of cinnamon. Get the recipe here.
2. Apple Pie Oatmeal Cookies
Apple pie and oatmeal cookies, two classic favorites of American desserts. Check out the recipe here.
3. Carrot Apple Ginger Soup Whoever thought to put apples in soup is a pure genius because this looks incredible. Find out how to make this magical soup here.
4. Apple, Pecan, and Blue Cheese Salad with Dried Cherries This salad maintains the fresh crispness of apples with flavors that complement it so well. Find this salad here.
5. Spicy Apple Salsa You’ve heard of regular salsa, and I’m sure you’ve heard of mango salsa. But apple salsa? Check it out here.
6. Apple Cinnamon Granola Imagine this sitting atop vanilla Greek yogurt. Fulfill that desire here.
7. Apple Oat Greek Yogurt Pancakes Speaking of Greek yogurt, how delicious do these pancakes look? Check them out here.
8. Apple Pie Fries We love apple pie. We love fries. Why not combine them? Get the recipe here.
9. Slow Cooker Apple Butter Slow cooker recipes have really been trending lately. Try this one and enjoy some fresh apple butter.
10. Apple Spice Pork Chops This recipe is everything wonderful about applesauce with pork chops, except way better.
11. Cream Cheese Apple Coffee Cake Coffee cake, alone, is delicious, but adding apples and cream cheese? Out of this world. Check it out here.
12. No-Yeast Apple Cinnamon Rolls Adding apples to cinnamon roles seems like a no brainer, why hasn’t this been a thing before? Prepare to drool at this recipe.
13. Fluffernutter Apple Nachos This might be my new favorite way to consume nachos. Prepare for excessive mouth watering and day dreaming upon checking this recipe out.
14. Apple Pecan Pie Cronuts with Apple Cider Caramel Drizzle Now this is something I could eat for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner every single day. I mean how amazing do these look?
15. Apple Pie Milkshake You know that dollop of vanilla ice cream you put atop warm apple pie? Well, this is that, but blended together. Get the recipe.