15 Apple Pie Recipes to Make All Fall Long
Celebrate fall with a slice of apple pie.
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Who doesn’t love apple pie? The popular dessert is delicious, often easy to make, and incredibly adaptable to your own personal tastes and preferences. A reward for one of fall’s best pastimes—apple picking—apple pie is beloved for its buttery, flaky crust and ooey gooey apple filling. In this roundup, you’ll find all sorts of apple pie recipes to get you in the mood for fall. For the traditionalists we have an old-fashioned apple pie recipe and a Granny Smith apple pie, while those looking for something a tad different may prefer an apple phyllo pie or an apple pie coffee cake. No matter what you’re in the mood for, we’ve got the apple pie recipe for you!
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The Best Old-Fashioned Apple Pie Recipe
It doesn’t get any more classic than this apple pie recipe, which calls for several different types of apples such as Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Braeburn. When buying apples for this pie or any other one, look for fruits with a fresh, fruity aroma. Apples with a pleasant smell will be especially delicious when baked into a pie.
Apple Pie Skillet Cake
ANTONIS ACHILLEOS
If a pie and a skillet cake had a baby, the offspring would be this autumnal dessert. You’ll start by cooking down the apples with brown sugar and cinnamon, which infuses them with flavor. Then, you’ll fold the apples into a simple batter and bake. Once this treat is done cooking, top it with several scoops of vanilla or caramel ice cream and serve.
Grilled Apple Pie
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Don’t put your grill away just yet! As the name suggests, this take on apple pie is made on the warm-weather appliance. And while it may seem odd to grill a pie, we promise that this dessert is irresistibly tasty and cooks in just one hour. If you notice your pie starting to brown a bit too quickly, loosely tent it with some foil.
Apple Cranberry Pie
If you’re not a pumpkin pie fan, or just want to try something new for the holidays, consider this apple cranberry option. Here, spiced apples are mixed with dried cranberries and brandy and encased in a buttery crust. To give your pie a deep golden crust, use an egg wash!
Dutch Apple Pie
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Instead of a double-crust, a Dutch apple pie has a bottom crust and is covered with a crumbly streusel topping. This version uses a combination of Granny Smith and Honeycrisp apples, and a streusel made with oats, brown sugar, butter, and spices. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for an extra-special treat.
Apple Phyllo Pie
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If you’re an apple pie fan but can do without the dessert’s buttery crust, try this variation. This pie, which takes just an hour to make from start to finish, features a crust made with sheets of phyllo dough brushed with honey and warm water. For a festive presentation, sprinkle confectioners' sugar on top of the pie once it’s done cooking. You can also mix some chopped walnuts into the apple mixture for added texture.
Granny Smith Apple Pie
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This pie has it all—a buttery crust finished with a crackly sugar topping and a flavorful filling studded with sweet-tart, juicy apples. Worried your pie will have a soggy bottom? Position your oven rack low so the bottom crust gets plenty of heat.
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Apple Pie Coffee Cake
This dessert is the perfect combination of apple pie and coffee cake. It features a cakey center with apple pie filling, a marbled spice layer made with cinnamon, pecans, brown sugar, and flaked coconut, and an icing topping that’s rich and sweet. This treat is decadent enough to eat solo, but you can also enjoy it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream if that’s your jam.
French Apple Pie
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Like a Dutch apple pie, this French pie boasts an apple filling with a streusel topping. Since the sweet and spicy streusel is much easier to handle than a top crust, this fall dessert is a great option for beginners.
Healthy Apple Pie
The Spruce / Tara Omidvar
If you’re trying to watch the amount of sugar you eat, this is the apple pie for you. Here, the classic dessert is missing a top crust and there’s zero sugar in the crust that encases the remainder of the pie. To add a healthy dose of sweetness, try serving this pie warm with a scoop of low-fat, low-sugar frozen yogurt.
Cinnamon Roll Apple Pie
Kristina Vanni
Cinnamon rolls and apple pie are the dessert combo you never knew you needed. Here, the two treats come together to create a confection that boasts a gorgeous cinnamon roll pie crust and a sweet cinnamon-sugar filling. Pro tip: You can make the pie crust and freeze it, then thaw it before filling and baking the pie to cut down on the day-of prep.
Ginger Apple Tarte Tatin
Christopher Testani
A traditional tarte Tatin is made by covering the bottom of a baking dish with butter and sugar to caramelize around apples held together by a flaky pastry crust. In this recipe, you'll infuse caramel with fresh ginger. Then, drape thawed puff pastry on top and watch it turn flaky and golden in the oven. Flip the entire dessert over for the big reveal table-side, and get ready for your guests to be impressed.
Sheet Pan Apple Crisp
Yes this dessert is technically a crisp, but it still hits all of the trademark apple pie flavors. Our favorite part of this treat is the crispy browned edges, which are largely missing in an apple pie. To get those perfectly golden corners, use a sheet pan instead of the typical glass baking dish.
Honey-Apple Galette With Pistachio Sugar
This decadent fall dessert, which is apple pie-esque, combines honey and apple flavors into a flaky dough for a beautiful galette. As delicious as that may sound, a homemade pistachio sugar sets this confection apart from other apple treats. To make the tasty topping you’ll blitz pistachios with sugar and a pinch of salt until ground, then liberally sprinkle the mixture all over the dough.
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Apple Spice Donut Pudding
Fred Hardy
This fall-forward doughnut version of bread pudding is packed with syrupy apples sautéed with sugar and cinnamon. While there’s no crust, glazed doughnut pieces provide plenty of pillowy goodness. Don't forget to top the dessert with vanilla or caramel ice cream before serving for the tastiest results.
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