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Pie Is Just the Beginning: The Best Apple Desserts to Make This Fall

Fact: The best fall desserts are the ones that have apple in them.
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Alex Lau

Fact: The best fall desserts are the ones that have apple in them. Here are over a dozen of our favorites, from fritters to cobbler.

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    Alex Lau
    1/24

    BA's Best Apple Cider Doughnuts

    These sugared doughnuts are craggy and crunchy on the outside, tender and moist on the inside. Apple butter (not sauce!) is key to their texture and flavor; look for it alongside jams and jellies in the supermarket, or at farmers’ markets, or make your own.

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  • Annabel Mehran
    2/24

    Whole Wheat–Apple Crisp

    Natalie Chanin is famous for her dead-simple but delicious apple crisp, which is often on the menu at the café in her Alabama Chanin store.

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  • Christopher Testani
    3/24

    Apple-Almond Turnover

    Some almond paste is sold in a tube; other brands will be in a can in the baking aisle. If you don’t have a scale, measure ⅓ cup, packed.

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  • Alex Lau
    4/24

    Apple–Brown Sugar Pie

    Chilling the filled pie before baking helps it keep its shape; preroasting the apples packs in more flavor.

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  • 11/24

    Apple Croustades with Brown Sugar–Bourbon Ice Cream

    Layers of buttered and sugared phyllo pastry are molded in muffin tins to form the crisp crusts for these mini apple croustades.

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    12/24

    Country Mince Pie

    This recipe, part of our Throwback Thanksgiving feature, is from our 1970 issue. Mincemeat can be purchased at specialty baking shops, or made with a combination of dried fruits, rum or brandy, brown sugar, and baking spices. It's traditionally mixed with beef suet, but you can substitute butter or schmaltz.

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  • Alex Lau
    23/24

    Apple-Rhubarb Crumble

    This simple process works for practically any fruit; gauge how much sugar to use based on the fruit’s sweetness, and try cardamom or ginger in place of cinnamon.

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  • Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott
    24/24

    Vanilla Bean Tarte Tatin

    Don’t wait too long before inverting this vanilla bean tarte tatin recipe; the caramel will stick if it gets cold. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

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