269 apple butter recipes

Veal stew Normandy style with sauteed Granny Smith apples, reduced apple cider, cream, and steamed Kirby cucumbers. A French-inspired way to transform leftover veal stew.

Irish comfort food at its finest: fluffy mashed potatoes whipped with butter-soft apples. Sweet and savory collide in this traditional side that pairs beautifully with bacon or fried fish.

Microwave spiced red cabbage with vinegar, cloves, coriander seeds, peppercorns, and tart apple cooked tender in 20 minutes. A quick German-style braised cabbage side dish without the long stove time.

An upside-down apple cake baked in a skillet over a layer of homemade caramel with golden apples, almond extract, and a splash of amaretto. Flip it out and watch jaws drop.

Grated apple pie with coarsely shredded unpeeled apples, sugar, and cinnamon in a lattice-topped crust dotted with butter. A unique twist on classic apple pie where grating creates a dense, jammy filling.

Broiled salmon steaks with butter-sauteed pears, apples, and lime slices. A fruit-forward seafood dish where the sweet compote and citrus brighten rich, fatty salmon in every bite.

Irish cider sauce for oat-coated herrings, made from a butter-flour roux thinned with apple cider and finished with cream. A traditional accompaniment for fried fish.

Honey crunch baked apples stuffed with granola, dates, and almonds, drizzled with a honey-butter apple juice sauce. Old-fashioned autumn dessert you can feel good about.

Classic apple crisp with an oat and corn flake topping that bakes up crunchy. Brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg season both the apples and the crumble. Pour apple juice over everything before baking.

Rahm-Fleckle are German potato dumplings rolled thin, topped with cream and sliced tart apples, then baked and cut into squares. A sweet-savory Bavarian comfort dish served hot with cream.

Hot apple muffins with chopped apples in the batter and a cinnamon-sugar apple ring baked on top of each one. A big-batch breakfast muffin best served straight from the oven.

A comforting Eastern European side dish of egg noodles layered with sliced apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon, baked until bubbly and caramelized.

Apple pie topped with halved marshmallows that brown into golden, gooey peaks under a slow second bake. Tart apples, just sugar and nutmeg, no top crust. The midcentury trick that turns weeknight apple pie into something special.

Hot buttered cider spiked with rum and simmered with whole cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and lemon peel. A warming spiked apple drink topped with a melting pat of butter.

These German Puff Pancakes rise to the occasion! Baked in the oven, they can also be known as Dutch Babies, but baked in individual dishes they are an impressive meal. The apples are prepared on the stove separately and added after the pancakes are baked. An especially nice aroma in the morning is derived from apples, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Dutch oven pork chop dinner braised in apple juice with potatoes, carrots, onions, and cabbage. Everything cooks in one pot for a complete fall meal with built-in gravy.