Best Applesauce Recipes

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Homemade Applesauce and Baking with Applesauce

Written By: Sarah Perreault Managing Editor
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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.

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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. 

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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.

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!

About The Author
Sarah Perreault

Sarah Perreault

Managing Editor

Managing Editor Sarah Perreault joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac in 2003. She has tons of quirky and little-known facts crammed into that brain of hers, which may be thought useless elsewhere—but not h...