Baked Cinnamon Apple Slices

The fall season is here. It is an excellent time for apple recipes. There are various apple dishes to experiment with and taste this season. Baked cinnamon apples is one of many tasty fall apple recipes. The blend of cinnamon and apples is a delightful and flavorful dish combination. This is a simple and great apple recipe to try out this fall.

Apple is a well-known fruit that represents the fall. Apple orchards are popular during the fall season, and many of the apples are ready to be picked. Baked cinnamon apples have a unique taste that resembles fall delicious apple dishes. The flavors of the baked apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, and additional ingredients create a light, spicy, warm, sweet dish. This dish tastes delicious. I enjoy making simple apple recipes that are not too challenging, nor does it take very long to make, especially during the busy holiday season. It is a great side dish or light sweet dessert to add to the upcoming holiday dinners.

Baked cinnamon apples are sliced apples seasoned with various sweet seasonings and then baked. Apples can be baked, fried, or sauteed. Baking apples is one of the best methods for cooking apples. It is simple and considered healthy when apples are baked.

Ingredients & Instructions Tips

Ingredients

Apple is the essential ingredient. Opt for fresh apples such as gala apples, fuji, Honeycrisp, or any fresh type of red apple.

Apple Preparation

For this recipe, you can either leave the apple skin or you can peel the apples. This is more of a preference, though the texture may differ a bit. It is best to start by making the sugar seasoning mixture first. This prevents the apples from browning up so soon.

At the start of the recipe, you can also begin by peeling and slicing the apples first. Lemon juice or any type of citrus juice can be added to the peeled apples. This can help the apples from browning.

Baking

Adding water and butter during the cooking process helps the apples from drying up. The combination of the water and butter adds moisture to the apples. Feel free to switch up the seasoning ingredients for this dish. Cinnamon and nutmeg are flavorful fall seasonings. Other great options to try are apple and pumpkin pie spice.

Ingredients Details

• Apples: fresh red apples; any type of red apple
• Water: filtered water
• Butter: unsalted butter

Sugar seasoning mixture

• Sugar: brown sugar; alternative coconut palm sugar
• Cinnamon: ground cinnamon; alternative apple pie spice
• Nutmeg: ground nutmeg; alternative pumpkin pie spice
• Extract: vanilla extract; alternative almond extract

Instructions Details

1. In a bowl, add the cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.
2. Mix the sugar seasoning ingredients.

1. Wash the apples.
2. Peel the apples.
3. Remove the core from each of the apples.
4. Slice the apples.

1. Add butter to a baking dish.
2. Grease a baking dish with butter.
3. Add the apple slices.
4. Then add the sugar seasoning mixture.

After 15 minutes, add water and butter. Bake for another 15 minutes. 

This delicious apple recipe pairs nicely with ice cream. Opt for vanilla ice cream or any other desired ice cream flavor for this baked cinnamon apple recipe.

Refrigerate leftover cinnamon apples. Any type of plastic container, such as an airtight container, is great for storage. Allow the cinnamon apples to cool, then store in a plastic container in the refrigerator.

Recipe

1 square baking dish (8x8)

Ingredients

• 5 Apples
• 3 tablespoons water
• 4 tablespoons butter

Sugar seasoning mixture

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions
 
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
 
Sugar mixture. In a small bowl, add the cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix until fully combined.
 
Apples. Wash the apples. Peel, core, and slice the apples.
 
Baking dish. In a baking dish, grease the dish with 1 tablespoon of butter. Add the sliced apples. Then top with the sugar seasoning mix. Gently saturate the sugar seasoning mixture with the apples.
 
Bake. Add the baking dish to the oven. Bake for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, add water and butter to the apples. Mix gently until combined. Bake for an additional 10 minutes. Remove from the oven to cool.