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15 Easy Apple Recipes to Make This Fall

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on August 30, 2025

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15 easy apple recipes to welcome fall! There's everything from delicious fresh salads to decadent desserts.

September is just around the corner! After such a surprisingly cool August, we're more than ready to welcome the cozy flavors of fall. I spotted fresh mountain apples at a local farmstand this week, and it instantly had me dreaming of all the delicious apple recipes to come.

Harvest apple salad in a wooden bowl with apples, pecans, figs, pomegranate seeds.

We've rounded up some of our favorites, everything from crisp, fresh salads to warm, decadent desserts. Don't let apple season slip by without trying a few (or all!) of these easy apple recipes. We think you're going to love them. Enjoy!

Slow cooked apple butter in a small white dish on a round board with cheese, crackers, fruit and salami.

Ridiculously Easy Slow Cooked Apple Butter (with free printable gift labels)

Ready for the taste of fall? With minimal effort on your part? Welcome to our Ridiculously Easy Slow Cooked Apple Butter! Simply throw everything in the slow cooker and wait for the magic to happen! It's fabulous on toast, biscuits, scones, and English muffins and is a wonderful addition to cheese and charcuterie appetizer boards.

Apple cranberry spinach salad in a pewter bowl with salad serving spoons.

Apple Cranberry Spinach Salad

Apple Cranberry Spinach Salad with Honey Cider Dressing - an insanely delicious and super healthy salad - perfect for any get-together with family and friends!

Apple cider scones on a white plate on a blue and white dish towel with butter and small glasses of milk.

Ridiculously Easy Cider-Glazed Apple Scones

These Ridiculously Easy Cider-Glazed Apple Scones are buttery, flaky, and studded with bits of tender apple. They're also ridiculously good!

Apple infused balsamic vinegar in glass jars with labels and apples in the background.

Ridiculously Easy Apple-Infused Balsamic Vinegar

This fabulous Apple-Infused Balsamic Vinegar costs a fraction of the price you'd pay at one of those fancy gourmet shops. Make it yourself, add our free printable labels and impress your family and friends!

Harvest apple arugula salad in a wooden bowl with figs, pomegranate seeds, squash and feta cheese.

Harvest Apple Arugula Salad

If you enjoy the flavors of Fall, you're going to LOVE this new salad. It's fresh, healthy, beautiful, and oh... SO delicious!

French apple tart on a white cake stand with apples in the background.

Easy French Apple Tart

This fabulous French Apple Tart employs a store-bought pie crust for easy convenience. With ribbons of cinnamony apples and sweet cream cheese plus a magic trick for a crisp crust, this dessert is beyond delicious!

Puff pastry apple roses on a wooden cutting board with caramel sauce in a small pitcher in the background.

French Maple-Glazed Puff Pastry Apple Roses

These delicious French maple-glazed puff pastry apple roses are sweet, crisp and bursting with bright apple flavor. They're also easy to put together, can be made ahead and look like they came from a fine bakeshop!

Magic apple cake on a white cake stand on a wooden table with forks and white plates with napkins.

Ridiculously Easy Magic Apple Cake

This one-bowl, no-mixer, Ridiculously Easy Magic Apple Cake is super moist and ridiculously delicious. The fabulous caramel icing is the crowning glory!

Apple bran muffins on a white cake stand with blue and white plates, a small dish of butter and apples in the background.

Honey-Glazed Apple Bran Muffins (Gluten-Free... or Not!)

These delicious Honey-Glazed Apple Bran Muffins are moist, tender, studded with sweet chunks of apple and laced with cinnamon. They rise up with high-domed tops and come together quickly with one bowl and no mixer!

Easy apple pie on a navy pie plate with a slice cut out on a blue and white plate with gold forks and apples.

Annie's Easy Apple Pie

This Easy Apple Pie makes a fabulous dessert for holidays, dinner parties and special occasions but it can be thrown quickly and with minimal effort. That makes it perfect for making an ordinary day quite special!

Apple cinnamon breakfast focaccia bread on a white plate with small glasses of orange juice, blue and white napkins and small dish of butter.

Ridiculously Easy Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Focaccia

The one-bowl, no-mixer dough for this Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Focaccia comes together in minutes with no kneading needed. Even the sleepiest heads will arise and head to the kitchen as the delicious aroma fills the house!

Caramel apples on a white cake stand with wooden sticks.

Easy Homemade Caramel Apples

These Easy Homemade Caramel Apples taste a hundred times better than anything you can buy. Make a dozen apples in less than an hour!

French toast casserole cut into a square with fresh fruit and maple syrup being poured on top.

Cinnamon Apple French Toast Casserole

You're going to love this crazy delicious overnight French Toast casserole. Prep it the night before and in the morning, breakfast is easy peasy!

Quinoa and kale salad in a blue and white bowl with stacked plates and dressing in the background.

Quinoa and Kale Salad with Avocados, Apples and Bacon

You won't be able to get enough of this healthy, super delicious salad. And it's just as good the next day too!

Danish apple cake on a green and white napkin with a silver knife.

Danish Apple Cake (Æblekage)

A delicious, tender yellow cake laced and topped with cinnamon apples. This Danish Apple Cake is perfect for any occasion!

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3 Comments

Shirley says:

August 30, 2025 at 12:46 pm

Thank you for sharing your Meniere's story and now your low sodium journey. I 'm sure you'll be discovering new ways to flavor food and we will all get to benefit with new low salt recipes. Yeah! cheers

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Pamela says:

August 30, 2025 at 12:04 pm

Everything looks so DELICIOUS
THANK YOU FOR THE RECIPES

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1. Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine says:
  
  September 1, 2025 at 11:13 am
  
  Thanks, Pamela! Enjoy!
  
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