Apple Chips

Apple chips. Baked Apple Slices. Whatever you call them – they. are. delicious!

If you’re like us, then you’ll go apple picking at least once this fall and find yourself with a large amount of apples. I love to eat them as is but we were searching for a way to use our freshly picked apples above and beyond the standard pie and crisp. We love our mandolin so we thought we’d try making our own apple chips and boy did they come out great. It’s a bit of work to mandolin all your apples and then bake for 2 hours in batches, but the results are just so yummy I think it’s totally worth it.

Slice your apples with the 1/8″ size on your mandolin and place on a parchment paper or Silpat lined cookie sheet.

Remove any actual seeds but you don’t need to remove the core.

Sprinkle with a little cinnamon sugar mixture (for 6 apples we used 2 Tbs sugar and 1 Tsp cinnamon).

Then bake at 225 degrees for 2 hours or more until they get crunchy. A few notes:
– You’ll want to use an “eating” apple for these like a Honey Crisp rather than a “baking” apple like Macintosh.
– We fit 3 cut apples on 2 baking sheets.
– 2 baking sheets don’t fit side by side in my oven so each sheet was on a different rack. To make sure the apple chips baked evenly, we rotated the baking sheets halfway through baking at 1 hour.
– You can use your own judgement on how much cinnamon sugar to add, or don’t use any at all!
– We used one baking sheet with a silpat and one with parchment paper and I would say the apples baked on parchment paper came out slightly better.

Enjoy!