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
This homemade applesauce can be eaten straight from the jar or paired with grilled pork chops or potato pancakes.
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Our Indian Summer Applesauce recipe is a reader favorite. Combine apples and purple plums for wonderful flavor and beautiful color.
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.
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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.
Enjoy this delicious applesauce bread with our homemade apple butter!
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Photo credit: Crestock.
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!