Cinnamon Spice Baked Apples

These Cinnamon Spice Baked Apples are so delicious! They’re baked to perfection with cinnamon, maple syrup and a little bit of brown sugar. Pairs perfect with vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream!

This recipe was originally posted in October 2018. I’ve updated the content and photos! 

I have no shame when admitting my adoration for apples. I love them in any way – sliced raw with lots of peanut butter, eating it straight to the core (to the point where I have to spit out the seeds), and of course, baking them.

And loving them, especially in the Fall, is perfect because THEY’RE SO IN SEASON, Y’ALL. Man, you haven’t lived until you’ve eaten a fresh apple in the Fall. So juicy. So crisp. So much of everything you love in life. Especially Honeycrisp apples! Those are my all time favorite.

However, as much as I do love a fresh apple, there is something that screams “Fall” about BAKED APPLES. You don’t even need any Fall candles burning when you are baking these. Your whole house will feel as cozy as grandmas. Warm, delicious and just everything you love about this magical season. Plus, it will smell like you lit the most amazing delicious candle in all of the world.

These Cinnamon Spiced Baked Apples taste pretty much exactly like the inside of a warm apple pie. By baking them, you get this caramelized sauce of sugar and butter and cinnamon. It coats the apples, making them extra warm and cozy. The apples get perfectly baked but they still retain a bite to them – they never turn into mush as you might expect. They would make the absolute perfect side dish OR dessert at your Thanksgiving table! 

Ingredients You Need for Cinnamon Spiced Baked Apples: 

• apples (i prefer honeycrisp!)
• cornstarch
• half of a lemon
• maple syrup
• light brown sugar
• water
• cinnamon
• butter
• turbinado sugar
• whipped cream or vanilla ice cream

How to Make Cinnamon Spiced Baked Apples:

One of my favorite things about these Cinnamon Spiced Baked Apples is how EASY they are. Let me explain…

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grab 3-4 medium sized apples. Using a sharp knife (and be careful), slice the apples very thin and uniform! You want them all to cook evenly.

They should look something like this:

Oh, and yeah, once you’re done slicing them, you really do just put them directly into a baking dish. #easypeasy

Next, you add brown sugar, maple syrup, cornstarch, cinnamon, and the juice of half of a lemon directly on top of the apples.

Gently mix together until the apple slices are EVENLY coated. Be sure you don’t have a couple slices with all of the cornstarch mixture on them. You want them to be even to make sure you get enough of that delicious sugary caramely syrup on each apple slice!

Now that they are all mixed, pop ’em in the oven and bake them to perfection! They need about 30 minutes.

My favorite part of this baking process is right around the end of the baking time. That is, when I take the almost done baked apples out of the oven, add a few dollops of butter and crunchy raw turbinado sugar and bake them for an additional 5 minutes. TALK ABOUT LIFE CHANGING. It’s cinnamony sugary caramely slightly crunchy goodness. Yes. Game changer!

Truth be told, this was probably the recipe that I’ve struggled with NOT eating while shooting the most. The smell of those cinnamon apples fresh out of the oven was luring me in. Self control, Haylie! Self control. Thankfully I held it together until it was fully photographed. And somehow there are still leftovers! #blessed

How to Eat Cinnamon Spice Baked Apples:

What I love about these apples is how diverse they are! You can eat them directly out of the pan with a spoon (like I did!) Or you can load it up in a bowl for a super easy dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream OR homemade whipped cream! The creaminess pairs perfectly with the warm spicy apples.

You can also meal prep these for the week! They taste awesome on top of oatmeal! Another recommendation would be spreading a thin layer of peanut butter on top of toast and then adding these warmed up apples on top. Yassss.

If you liked this recipe, here are some other Fall recipes you may like:

Baked Caramel Apple Streusel Donuts

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Blondies 

Healthier Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins 

Cinnamon Roll Oatmeal Bars 

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