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Welcome to #AppleWeek on RecipeChatter! We’re kicking off apple season with a full week of alluring, easy apple recipes. It’s going to be a sweet week!
I suspect the reason apples are so exciting every fall is the opportunity to go apple picking. It’s wonderful to spend a gorgeous, crisp fall day outside with some loved ones, choosing from a variety of apples. Plus, there’s usually apple cider and donuts as a reward. Apple picking lends itself to some beautiful memories.
Even if you drop by your local grocery store’s produce section, you’ll find plenty of inspiration in the form of granny smith, honeycrisp and red delicious apples. Whether you prefer your apples sweet or tart, there’s a perfect easy apple dessert recipe. How ’bout them apples?
Join the fun! Share your own apple recipes with us! Use the hashtag #AppleWeek all week long on Facebook and Twitter so we can see what you’ve got and share it with our readers.
What’s Going On This Week
Check in with us every day for some apple-tastic recipes. Bookmark this page so you don’t miss a thing! Here’s our schedule for the week.
Monday, September 21
Test Kitchen: Mom’s German Apple Cobbler Recipe
Tuesday, September 22
Dump and Bake Caramel Apple Crisp Recipe – Guest post by The Seasoned Mom
12 Apple-tizing Dump Dessert Recipes
Wednesday, September 23
5-Ingredient Cinnamon Apple Muffin Recipe – Guest post by Healthy T
Thursday, September 24
Apple Pie Dippers with Bourbon Caramel Sauce Recipe – Guest post by Revamperate
Friday, September 25
Autumn’s Essential Apple Pie Recipes
Bonus Giveaway!
To celebrate #AppleWeek, we’re giving away one Vacu Vin Apple Corer and Knife set to one lucky winner! You’ll be all set to make our wonderful apple recipes with these tools.
And the winner is… Kathy Boyle!
Kathy said, “My favorite apple is Honey Crisp because it is such a versatile apple. Love making applesauce with the kids and they also love peeling apples to make apple pie and apple crisp.”
Thanks for entering, everyone! Kathy, we’ll email you about your prize.
What’s your favorite kind of apple?
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My favorite kind of apple is definitely the jazz apple. They’re really sweet and usually come from New Zealand. They’re very hard to find. I found them only once last year.
I love mackintosh apples they make the best pies and a great eating apple also .
I love Macintosh apples because they make delicious applesauce and apple desserts.
my favorite eating apple is the Wealthy for its super taste and juiciness. For apple recipes, I like the Haralson for its good tart taste and it gets a little mushy.
I love the Jonathon Apples they are good for cooking and eating. Makes wonderful Apple Butter. Thank You for Your Receipes.
My favorite apple is the Honeycrisp apple! They have the perfect tartness and go well in all the desserts that I make!
Granny Smith’s are my favorite! They are always crisp and tart and NEVER mushy! They are a wonderful “eating” apple and my favorite “cooking” apple.
My favorite Apple is the granny Smith apple nice and start perfect for.baking.
Granny Smith apples are my favorite!
My favorite apple is the McIntosh. It is tart and crisp and I just love to cook with it.
My favorite apple is Honey Crisp, they are sweet and firm and last a lot longer than the other apples I have tried.
My favorite apple is the McIntosh. Great for munching – applesauce – apple crisp. I’m in my 60’s & seems that apple has been around as long as I have!! So I guess you could say I’ve eaten them (al)most of my life!! Now I cut them up for my Grandchildren to munch on!
I love the Golden Delicious, but used a blend of apples when I make and can applesauce.
Cook Cortland apples with the skin on. Put them through a food mill and you will have the very best applesauce.It will be a very pretty pink color and the flavor is the best. It does not need sugar to be delicious.
I live in NJ and the best tasting and really last a long time is the Winesap…..The taste is a little tart and has a nice firm texture. Also great for baking.
Definitely Fuji apples for munching.
i really enjoy the honey crisp apples but often refer to fuji apples as they are more available.
my fav apple is the jonagold–crisp, juicy and very sweet
My favorite apple is the Golden Delicious. I remember helping my Granny make apple butter in a big black vat over an open fire and stirring it with a paddle. Nothing says fall like the smell of apples being made into something delicious!
Sharon, your comment brings back very fond memories of my gparents making apple butter in a copper vat and the process taking ALL day long to complete and preparing the jars for canning. The night before our family and friends from church would come and help peel many bushels of Stayman apples for the butter. Thanks for the memories.
My favorite is Golden delicious. They are juicy and crispy and hold their shape after cooking. I prefer them both cooked and raw (wonderful with cheese).
Gala, sweet apple for eating and baking…
I agree with you!! Gala is my very favorite apple ever!!!
Granny Smith. Love the tart crispness.
My favorite is the Red Delicious. I would take one to school almost every day.
There is nothing like a Minnesota grown Honeycrisp apple! Perfect blend of sweet and tart but still has that crispness.
Give me a MacIntosh any day of the week. Crisp, sweet-tart, perfect for eating raw or cooked, great for juice or sauce. Just a perfect apple IMHO.!
Love Washington state red delicious
Gravensteins are my favorited sweet and juicy a pleasure to cook with use for any recipe with good results. Hiwever, I just love all apples. My favourite fruit
AH! at last, someone else favours the Gravenstein – I’d never heard of them until I moved to the West Coast, I find them to be the best for pies or crumbles. Love them! We have an orchard of various varieties but my favourite is the Gravenstein.
My favorite apple is the Granny Smith. It’s tart and sweet at the same time, and I can easily find it.
Cortland. I ate my first in 1973 on a trip to New Hampshire. Ate them all the way back to Nevada. Can’t get the on this side so we go for the honey crisp. All apples are wonderful no matter how you use them.
My favorite apple is the “PINK LADY” apple. It is very crisp,tart,and sweet. Such a good snacking apple. It’s my CANDY everyday.
I’ll vote for honey crisp!
Macintosh. Delish!!!!!
Golden delishes
I like nice sweet crunchy gala apples.I eat at least 1 or more a day. Im never sick so i guess the saying : an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is true!
For baking and cooking, I love Rome and/or Gala apples, and for eating fresh, I love Golden Delicious!
Never met a honeycrisp I didn’t like. Good raw or baked! Definitely my favorite!
I love apple cobbler
Love, love, love Honey Crisp apples! In my house, they don’t hardly last long enough to bake with them because they get eaten so fast. I just love biting into a Honey Crisp because it tastes like an explosion of mixed apple flavors. Oh, yum!
C’mon, how can I have a favorite? All apples have a redeeming quality. Some are better for baking/cooking and others are fabulous for their wonderful crunch. I never met an apple I didn’t like!
My favorite apple is Golden Delicious.
I love Gala apples. They are crisp, not too sweet , and you can cook with them or eat them as they are. I do not like an apple that is too sweet. Winesaps are good too, but Galas are better.
Until two years ago Granny Smith were all time favorite apple. We went to the Royal Winter Fair and we tried the Honey Crisp, they are more expensive than the rest but have an awesome sweet taste. I do however still buy Granny smith apples.
My favorite apple of all is the Grimes Golden, first discovered in West Virginia. Not well known but everyone who knows it, loves the flavor!
Golden delicious for everything
my favorite apple is the Granny Smith, I like the tart taste with salt. It is great in all my apple recipes for sure.
My favorite apple is Golden Delicious.
I love McIntosh apples for my homemade applesauce with a few Granny Smith apples put in to give the sauce a little bit of tartness.
For baking the Apple Pie my husband will devour I use his favorite Honey Crisp and Fuji apples. If I don’t serve it to him myself he will just take a fork and eat the whole pie.
When I want to quench hunger between meals I eat My favorite granny Smith apple. It cures the hunger for me and leaves my mouth feeling fresh and clean.
Granny Smith and Golden Delicious are my favorites!
Honey crisp stay true to their name. They are sweet with a hint of tartness and stay crisp the longest compared to other varieties. Great to bake with or just cut up and enjoy!
My favorite baking apple is Granny Smith.
My favorite eating fresh apple is Red Delicious. It’s a nice crisp apple.
Baking-Granny Smith
Eating-Red delicious
I love to bake with granny smith apple there my favorite
My favorite apples is Granny Smith apples. They are crisp and alittle tart and especially good when dipped in caramel.
I like the “Blush”. ..Nice…crisp..sweet…and it just LOOK so pretty. But in truth…In ALL my cooking and canning, I like to mix them all! You get the different joys of ALL the apples ans their textures and tastes!
I just LOVE apples!
For snacking I love red delicious apples; however, for baking I prefer McIntosh, Fuji, Gala, and Granny Smith.
I prefer the Golden Delicious apples especially when baking. You use less sugar in the recipes. Sometimes, no sugar at all is needed.
Honeycrisp apples are my favorite! They are sweet and wonderful with caramel dip.
Definitely MacIntosh!
My favorite apple is Honey Crisp.
I love any type of apple . They are all great tasting to me. The Granny Smith are best for pies. But I also use the gala in baking sometimes. Apples are great in salads also, and make delicious snacks too.
My favorite is the Golden Delicious since there are so many different thing you can make from it.
nothing is better than a good ole granny smith except maybe a good ole GA crabapple straight off the tree!!!!!!
Without a doubt, it is now Honey Crisp! Before that, we had very old apple trees that no one knew the variety of. We took them to the county agriculture extension, master gardeners. No one could tell us, but they were so good!
They’re gone now. We lost them in the wild fire up in Washington a few weeks ago.
Granny Smith is my favourite apple, because it goes well with baking,and it is always nice and crisp, and the flavor goes very well with my taste buds!
My favorite apple to eat is Golden Delicious soft and sweet, but for cooking it is Cortland apples, crisp and tart
Apples are just about the perfect fruit on the planet! For eating out of hand: Hands down – Royal Galas – sweet, crunchy, juicy!
For cooking the perfect pie: Every apple pie needs a combination of apples for the best flavour: Rome, Cortland and HoneyCrisp – truly a match made in heaven!
My favorite Apple is the Macintosh. We used to have several trees on our property, and I still remember the crisp sweet taste of a Mac fresh off the tree on our way home from school.
Our favorite is Mc Intosh we do alot of canning so we have alot of them around tll we can not can anymore. The kids have their own families and now the grandchildren and the great – grandchildren love this time of year plus they know that it is what they will be eating all winter long……………
My favorite apple is the Gala.
My favorite type of apple for cooking is the Granny Smith but for just grabbing and eating is the Red Delicious
I love Gala apples
My favorite apple is which ever one is ready to eat!!!! I have twenty trees to choose from!!!!
Our favorite apple is Stayman however, they are difficult to find and usually requires a trip up to the mountains of Viriginia to get a couple bushels. These apples are wonderful for baking, cooking and just eating and have a sweet/tart flavor. Yum!
I have a few favorites, Granny Smith for my never fail apple pies, and Honey Crisp for my applesauce & apple butter home canning recipes! For snacks with caramel sauce or cream cheese marshmallow homemade dip has to be hands down both red and golden delicious apples, but my lunch box favorites are Macintosh! Then of course, Braeburn and Fuji have that snap factor, I guess I am not partial except for how I make and eat them ! But thanks for giving me the opportunity to let you know my feelings on this “forbidden” fruit?
Macouns definitely!
This is a very difficult question. However, I prefer Granny Smith for baking any type of apple recipe. They are solid, just the right texture and go with anything. They also last a long time without losing their taste. If you need it sweeter, just add the sugar.
Pink Lady is my favorite apple. Pink is my favorite color. This pink apple is great for apple pies and cutting to show its pink color.
I think Granny Smith are the best
My favorite by far is the Honey Crisp apple. When in season and fresh, they have the perfect texture, flavor and juiciness you can find in any apple. They can be a little on the pricey side verses some of the others, but when I bite into one, the price goes away. I am always glad to see the fall apple season come because I know those fresh delicious Honey Crisp are going to be here for a short while.
My favorite apple is red delicious. It is always so sweet and the taste burst in your mouth.
Granny Smith is my favorite apple. I love the tart taste of these apples and then to mix them with caramel is the ultimate delight.
My favorite apple is the Fiji. It is so sweet and juicy that it adds a lot of flavor to any recipe.
Fuji
Granny Smith
My favorite apple is a honeycrisp. They go into anything and are best just by themselves.
i like the granny smith they are great when dipped in carmel and chocolate
My favorite apple is Honey Crisp because it is such a versatile apple. Love making applesauce with the kids and they also love peeling apples to make apple pie and apple crisp
Honey crisp and Granny Smith. I had a Grandma Smith who made the best apple pies I’ve ever had!
Love those apples!! My favorite is whatever is ripe & ready to use. I sit on a stool(I am disabled) and prepare my apples, fill my 3 crockpots & add honey & spices .I can & freeze them & always have a bowl in refrigerator. Hubby takes Gala in lunchbox. Apples or applesauce is great snack at night.
I love Red & Golden Delicious but I’m a HUGE apple lover and love any sweet, tart and hearing that first “crunch” when taking a bite into it!! I have proudly ate them since eating solids! I can eat a whole jar of canned applesauce just by myself!
My favorite apple is Golden Delicious!
Cortland is my favorite for baking pies, the family can’t get enough.
Love apples, pink lady and gala. Do you have diabetic recipes?
Honey crisp are our favorite
My favorite apple is a Gala. I love to just eat them plain, but they are good to bake with also.
My favorite Apple is probably Fiji; however, I love any Apple that is fresh, cold, crisp and sweet. Yum!
Personally I like Pink Lady, But truthfully any apple will do for me. You just need to tweak it for sugar if you need to.
My favorite apple is granny smith especially submerged in caramenl and pecans.
I have included apples in my healthy eating habits-two apples a day helps lower the cholestrol and other preventions. So the “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not just a saying but a true reality.
We raise a couple varieties ourselves, and have many more grown around us, But my favorite is the Cameo.
Gala apples are my favorite.
I just love the honeycrisp. Such a wonderful combination of sweetness and a nice, crisp, firm bite. I could eat a million of them.
Love apples. Would love to have the corer.
I love Honey Crisp!
All apples are good. I like ’em all. but, my favorite is Granny Smith. Tart, sweet and crunchie. Great for making my fried apples pies. OMG!
I love Honeycrisp or Macintosh for eating out of hand. If I’m baking, a mixture of Granny Smith and any sweeter apple.
I buy a combination of apples – pies are usually a combination of Gala, Fuji, MacIntosh and I make my Mom’s apple sauce with both Mac’s and Fuji’s. I love eating any of them – they are so refreshing.
My favorite apple is all of them! It’s hard to limit it to just one. I love a firm, sweet, easy on the eye apple. Whether I’m cooking with it, eating it paired with dipping sauce or plain just eating it…an apple a day makes me smile.
We all love the Gala. It is sweet, and crisp enough to eat right out of the tree, as our kids loved doing, but also sweet enough that I can bake with it using much less sugar.
Love all apples, but my favorite is Macintosh. Enjoy the flavor and juice.
My favorite is one we grow in MN, an older tree named Beacon. It’s fruit is tart, sweet and crisp. When winter comes I love the Pink Lady which I discovered last year in the grocery store. A recipe to pass on to those who don’t like to spray their trees for insects, worms, bugs, etc.: take an empty water bottle, one tablespoon molasses and one tablespoon vinegar. Put these two ingredients in the water bottle and hang it in your apple trees. The molasses attracts the “critters” and the vinegar kills them. A very organic and successful way to rid your apples of these pests. Each year you have to make a new batch because the bottles have lots of dead “critters” in them.
Gala apples are my all time favorite. I eat a fresh Gala apple every day with my lunch. It is so sweet that it satisfies any craving for something sweet. My hubby enjoys Gala apples in my cobblers, turnovers and fried pies. Yummy!
I like granny smith to make homemade applesauce and pies
I just love ENVY apples from Australia, they are crisp and tart. Thanks for your recipes.
MacIntosh is my favorite because I love to make apple butter!
I have to admit that I have never been a fan of apples. That is until I tasted a Honey Crisp Apple. The HONEY CRISP APPLE WON ME OVER–HANDS DOWN!!! They are the best apples that I have ever eaten. I love the tart, sweet. crispness of this apple. They are delicious in pies, tarts and especially to just eat by themselves. Now everyone knows when I have apples on my shopping list, the ones that make it back from the store to my house had better be HONEY CRISP. They are wonderful!
I love Golden Delicious apples. I use them for simple quick baking in the microwave using spices & natural honey (or sugar) to sweeten with or use them in baking various recipes. They are my favorite!
My first taste of apples came as a child returning from Hawaii and visiting my great grandmother’s home.
She had a tree in her yard which grew four kinds of applies on one tree, my favorite were the granny smiths which we ate with a salt shaker, She had red delicious. yellow delicious and gravisteins. Not since Johnny Appleseed, did i think anyone, was as magical as my great grandother and her tree.
I love Granny Smith Apple. They are my favorite to eat & bake with.
My favorite apple is any one apple that grows on a tree. I have yet to have tasted an apple that I didn’t think was my favorite at the time. I LOVE all apples!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite apple is Jonagold for snacks and apple pie, so pretty with green/red swirls.
My favorites are Macintosh and Gala, love them all and love to use them in many recipes.
Although I buy a variety of apples from farmers market, I think Red Delicious and Gala apples are my favorites.
I like the July apples for apple sauce-it is the best but they are only in july.
I like the Cortland ,Stayman and Granny Smith for pies.I am 90 yrs old and still bake pies.
My favorite kind of apple is Honey Crisp. It’s big, and juicy, sweet, and tart and the smell is just fantastic. I have to hide them if I want to use them in a salad or make apple crisp with them.
I love Granny Smith apples. They have a great refreshing taste when eaten fresh and they make wonderful hot dessert whether in pie ,crisp, apple turn overs.
I definitely like the Honey Crisp variety; it is very appealing to the taste,travels well, stays firm for a long period of time,and makes excellent apple butter. I go from FL to PA every fall and bring back apples from Amish country. It is almost impossible to find good apples in FL!
I love the Red Delicious. It’s so sweet and juicy!
My favorite apples are the ones I pick. Every year I have neighbor’s who don’t pick their tree. So sked permission I pick them and share with everyone who wants them. I usually receive as thanks. ..Apple crumble, jelly, pie, sauce, and muffins. I love my neighbors and my neighborhood!
I love the Macintosh!!!!…..they great for eating and baking and caramel apples
Mackintosh is my favorite Apple. Love the crisp flavor and excellent in muffins.
My favorite apple is honey crisp! I love biting into a sweet and juicy honey crisp apple. My son loves apples as well.
My favorite apple is the Golden Delicious. They are so tasty and crisp. My dad making apple dumplings and applesauce with these apples make such a delicious dessert. Even the smell of them baking brings all of us inside just waiting to eat them.
I just can’t choose one… I love all types of apples, as do my 11 grangchildren… we do lots of baking, cooking and just plain old eating around here !!
Honey crisp, because it’s so versatile and delicious.
I like the grape flavored grapple
Definitely the honey crisp apple. So sweet and juicy when it’s in season!
My kids love honey crisp apples. As the name states they are sweet and very crisp and crunchy. We like to eat them right from the fridge or pair them with cheddar cheese or peanut butter. Yum!
My all around apple for every use is the Gala.
my favorite apple is granny smith’s. they are juicy. make great pie’s and we like to slice them and eat them in front of the tv. they are healthy for you. not like potato chip’s with all the grease.
I prefer the sweet crispy taste of Fuji apples for eating; however for Apple sauce and pies, I prefer a combination of crisp and mushy sweet plus tart apples.
The combination of different levels of sweet and tart tastes together with crisp and mushy apples makes for a great pie filling together with the juice of an orange. Yum!
I LOVE the Fuji apple…..Great just for munching…….
I enjoy all kinds of apples. My all around favorite is the Mackintosh, because it is crisp, a little sweet and tart at the same time. It is an excellent choice for apple pies. The texture holds up to baking well. You never have to worry if the apple will hold its shape in baking. The apple pie when finished baking is so delicious, not too sweet or tart, just perfect.
My favorite apple is the golden delicious. It can be used many ways and is also a great eating apple.
I like the Pink Lady for its unique taste and pies, and the Braeburn for baking.
Made my first apple pie of the season last night with my favorite apple Cortlands. Looking forward to having another piece tonight , apple pie seems to taste even better the day after.
We use honeycrisp apples in a delicious apple sauce -type recipe that includes
maple flavored bourbon. Tried other apple types but honeycrisp works best in this yummy apple recipe.