After seeing pin after pin for baked apple chips, I knew I had to try making them myself.
Baked Apple Chips
Ingredients
2 apples
(I used Jazz apples but I'm sure any kind would be good!)
Cinnamon
Directions
Preheat oven to 200.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Thinly slice the apples.
(Take out any seeds - and cut out any centers that look too tough)
Arrange apples on your baking sheet; make sure they aren't touching.
Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake for 1 hour, then flip.
Bake for another hour or so, until dry and chip-like.
Store in an air-tight container.
Just to be totally honest, when I started making these I thought the recipe seemed like an awful lot of work when you could easily just eat a fresh apple instead - and I've already been eating an apple a day for the past few weeks so I really started to wonder why I was going to all this trouble!
But really, it's not that much work at all. It's super easy to cut up the apples thinly, and this is definitely the kind of thing you can just pop in the oven when you have some time & let cook without worrying about.
One recommendation: load your baking sheet up as many apple slices you can fit. They shrink and shrivel a little so by the end it looks like a much smaller quantity than you were expecting. And trust me, you'll want more than just one apple's worth of chips!
When the chips were done, I popped one in my mouth and was totally pleasantly surprised! It tasted just like a healthy, crunchy, fruit chip (shocker, right?).
All of a sudden I realized why the slicing and 2+ hours in the oven was worth it - these are a fabulous way to spice up just munching on a regular apple. Plus, they totally have a satisfying crunch that could help squash a potato chip craving. Win!
Overall? Totally dig it and will be making these again. I want to try granny smith apples next!
Recipe source here.
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