29 Recipes to Get Your Apple Cinnamon Fix This Fall

These are soft, incredibly moist, and just sweet enough. We love them with Granny Smith apples to provide a little tartness, but any good baking apple will do! The streusel topping makes them feel like you're eating an apple crumble for breakfast, and we couldn't be happier about it.

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Each bite of this baked oatmeal is studded with chunks of tart Granny Smith apples and toasted walnuts. There's just enough cinnamon and nutmeg to infuse the dish with a cozy autumn aroma without overpowering the other flavors. Yum!

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Apples work wonders in this easy coffee cake. They add extra sweetness as well as making the cake moist and tender. We love it with Granny Smith and Honeycrisp apples, but your favorite baking apple will do the trick!

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Every fall, we turn to this recipe because we think it's, well, pretty perfect. We like to fill our homemade flaky, buttery, lattice crust with a combination of apples for an irresistibly sweet-tart filling. We're being 100% serious when we say this is the BEST apple pie recipe out there.

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Bursting with chunks of cinnamon apples, this bread is a MAJOR hit come fall. Gone apple picking? It's the perfect baking project to use up some of those goodies. Don't worry, you'll still have enough for apple pie too. 😉

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Apple butter is essentially a reduced applesauce, where the apples are cooked low and slow to become caramelized and extra sweet. Making it in the slow cooker makes this process hands-off and SO easy.

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There's nothing like a fresh stack of pancakes on a weekend morning, and these may just be our new favorite. Topped with a sticky, cinnamon-scented apple compote, we don't even need maple syrup.

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Homemade apple cider is one of the greatest things about fall. It's extremely easy to make and the perfect way to use up any extra apples you have. It's warm, full of spice, and just sweet enough—turn it into dessert, like our apple cider donuts, or add alcohol and turn it into a cider cocktail too.

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Pick an apple on the crisper side to make these, like Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, or Pink Lady. Avoid softer, mealier apples like Red Delicious or Fuji—they just don't crisp up the same way.

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No standing over the stove and stirring with this insanely easy applesauce! We like ours on the less-sweet side, but if you're finding yours a little too tart, you can always stir in more sugar after they've been cooked.

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We dressed this pound cake up for autumn with crisp apples and a buttery crumb topping that you'll want to put over everything. Drizzle with a simple glaze to top off this perfect dessert.

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Baked apples kind of feel like a shortcut way to eat apple pie...you'll never hear us complaining!

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Using refrigerated crescent dough makes these apple dumplings a cinch to make and adds an extra buttery, flaky texture. The dumplings are essentially poached in a lemon-lime soda, which may seem a little odd, but trust us on this one: They come out slightly doughy and gooey, and the soda turns the whole thing into a sweet sauce that you can drizzle over your dumplings. 😍

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In this classic French dessert recipe, you're supposed to cook down an apple compote to go on top of the crust and under the spiral of apples. Not here! We skipped the sauce completely and macerated the slices in brown sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, and vanilla to make sure they got nice and jammy in the oven.

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Apple butter is extremely easy to make, and it's how we transition from avocado toast in the summer to a more fall-themed toast (wow, imagine it on sourdough toast). Apple butter also goes great on apple pancakes and is amazing atop warm buttermilk biscuits.

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Strudel is a layered pastry with a gooey filling. It can be done with all types of filling, but the most popular is apple, and this one is made even more delicious with the addition with cinnamon, lemon zest, and raisins.

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You need to try this hasselback trick with apples ASAP. It tastes like a cross between a homemade apple pie and a warm apple crumble. The best part: You don't need to deal with rolling out and chilling pie dough.

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These snickerdoodle-like cookies are chewy in the center and slightly crisp around the edges. The dough is infused with all the best warm autumnal spices, thanks to the shortcut superhero apple pie spice, and each bite is packed with plenty of tart Granny Smith apple chunks. On top is a drizzle of thick white icing to take these cookies OTT.

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When you need to make apple pie for a big group, these bars are absolutely perfect. With a no-fuss crust that you press (not roll), they're SO easier to throw together, and you can't beat that crumb topping. Drizzle them with some extra caramel or serve with ice cream for an extra special treat!

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Got a lot of apples and don't know what to do with them? If homemade apple pie seems like too much of an undertaking, this jam is just the thing to prolong those delicious fall apples. We love it shmeared on toast with peanut butter, but it would also be delicious stirred into yogurt or spread on top of pancakes or waffles.

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