by Texas Homesteader ~
Apples are super cheap when they’re in season. Don’t you just crave that sweet deliciousness of autumn? Me too!
Come see my 5 favorite ways to preserve lots of fresh apples and some delicious apple dessert recipes as well.
What To Do With Lots Of Apples?
Every year my aunt shares with us the abundance from her very productive apple tree. She always goes through quite a bit of effort to make sure I have all the apples I can possibly tote back home!
So RancherMan & I hauled back all we could fit into our small car. I’ll not let any of them go to waste – I set out to preserve all those beautiful apples!
There were SO many apples that was a lot of work I’m not gonna lie. But after some time in the kitchen preserving them we have plenty of apple deliciousness in the pantry.
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But I ended up with lots of apples so I sat out to preserve them all. Do you want to see some of the things I was able to do with a large amount of apples? I
‘m sharing a list below of my favorite ways to preserve them, and some fun apple dessert recipes too.
Just click on the individual links below for more detailed information. Enjoy!
5 Easy Ways To Preserve Fresh Apples
This apple pie filling recipe is straightforward and canning requires just a 20-minute stint in a water-bath canner. Those beautiful jars in the pantry mean I can make homemade apple pie in minutes!
This is the simplest way to preserve fresh apples. Peel/core/slice them and chunk them into a slow cooker to cook down. Then canning them is easy! I’ve made regular unsweetened to enjoy and also use in my baking, and Cinnamon/Vanilla flavored applesauce too!
A delicious byproduct of making applesauce – the apple cider. It’s easy to can too. In the cold winter months I enjoy a steaming cup of cider stirred with a cinnamon stick to warm me from the inside out.
Dehydrated Cinnamon/Sugar Apples
Slices of peeled/cored apples are sprinkled with cinnamon & sugar and then dehydrated. The result is a delicious, crunchy, sweet apple treat!
If you have excess applesauce it’s easy to make them into fruit rollups. Just spread them on the dehydrator trays & dry until no longer tacky. Then cut into strips & roll. I’ve made regular and cinnamon/sugar rollups. And they’re both delicious!
What Easy Apple Desserts Use Apples?
Apples are used often in my favorite Homestead recipes.
Chunky Apple/Cinnamon Bread
Spiced Rum Fried Apples
Healthy Frozen Applesauce Popsicles
Apple Crumble
Baked Apple Pie Tortilla Rolls
Cute Apple Hand Pies
So don’t despair if you have lots of apples – try one of these easy ways to Preserve & enjoy them deliciously!
~TxH~
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Muffins, Breads
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Cookies
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Puddings
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- (make your own homemade Vanilla Wafers too!)
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Ice Cream & Other Desserts
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Dessert Toppings
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I haven’t made it to the farmer’s market yet. I had planned on going and getting bartlett pears and apples (everyone I’ve asked about apples said their tree(s) didn’t do well this year). But I did spend last weekend baking pumpkins, processing to get it smooth and freezing the meat (you can’t can pumpkin when it’s been processed for pie).
When we went to the pumpkin patch a couple days before Halloween we also went through the corn maze. If you found the answers to all the questions you got a free small pumpkin. We ended up with 5 and I also bought a sugar pumpkin. So I took them home and looked them up. They were called Hooligan pumpkins or my older son said they were called lightning pumpkins in New York. If you get the chance I recommend the white ones. They are orange in the indentation and either white or yellowish (with orange spots) on the part that bows out. I saved seeds so hopefully I can get them to grow next year. They are so sweet and good, but I found the white were a little sweeter.
My next project will be making my mom’s recipe for cranberry sauce and canning it. Oh! And I have yogurt (your recipe) in the oven incubating as I write this. Kaleigh love, love, loves homemade yogurt!
I have never made a pie with cooked apples (I generally freeze them cut up, but that does take a lot of freezer space), but we’ve an abundance this year so I do believe I will try canning the filling! Thank you for the idea.
The canned filling is super convenient to have in the pantry too Mrs. Shoes. RancherMan’s current favorite dessert is by far the easiest to make – rolling apple pie filling in a tortilla, topping with melted butter & cinnamon/sugar and bake for 20 minutes. Done & done! He begs me to make those for him often. ~TxH~