Homemade Applesauce and Baking with Applesauce
Enjoy a collection of our best homemade applesauce recipes! Plus, see a few of our favorite recipes that use applesauce as an ingredient—from applesauce bread to applesauce pudding!
When making applesauce, it’s important to use a softer apple variety (such as McIntosh, Macoun, or Cortland) that cooks down more easily. Find out which apples are best for making applesauce, pies, and other apple dishes.
Applesauce Recipes: Making Applesauce
Cinnamon Applesauce
This homemade applesauce can be eaten straight from the jar or paired with grilled pork chops or potato pancakes.
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Indian Summer Applesauce
Our Indian Summer Applesauce recipe is a reader favorite. Combine apples and purple plums for wonderful flavor and beautiful color.
How to Can Applesauce
Making homemade applesauce is a favorite fall tradition of ours. Here’s how to make applesauce–and how to can it for year-round deliciousness.
How to Serve Applesauce
Applesauce is a delicious snack or dessert on its own. Also, try mixing into oatmeal and hot cereal instead of sugar.
Or, warm up applesauce and serve as a side dish to compliment latkes or sausages.
Image: Latke Recipe. Credit: Greenart/Shutterstock.
Recipes Using Applesauce
Applesauce is also a delicious ingredient for baking, adding natural moistness and flavor. Try making Applesauce Bread, Applesauce Cake, or Applesauce Pie.
Applesauce Bread
Enjoy this delicious applesauce bread with our homemade apple butter!
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Applesauce Crumb Pie
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Applesauce Cake
We recommend a brown butter frosting for this applesauce cake.
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Also try these Sugar-Free Applesauce Cookies!
What’s your favorite applesauce recipe? What sort of pastries do you like to use it in? Let us know in the comments below!
Sarah Perreault
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I NEVER, EVER cook my apples in water, I ALWAYS use apple juice, or cider, AND, I NEVER peel my apples, but cook them with the skins ON, and then run them through a Foley Food Mill!!! You will be amazed at the difference in the taste of your apple sauce, and most likely find that you will not need to use much sugar at all. Check it out!!!
