Desserts & Sweet Treats
Home Kitchen Crispy Baked Apple Chips
Make healthy Baked Apple Chips at home! Save money and calories by baking thinly sliced apples, low and slow in your oven. Enjoy as a snack or add to oatmeal, granola, soups and salads (and more!). Baked apple chips are
- Serves 4 servings
- Prep 5 minutes
- Cook 2 hours
- Total 2 hours
Baked apple chips are especially straightforward to make at home.
Thinly sliced apples are baked at a low temperature for a few hours in your oven. Yes, it’s truly that straightforward! From-scratch baked apple chips are a savory, naturally sweet snack. However, there are several other ways you can enjoy them. From drinks and desserts to soups and salads – the options are nearly endless.
So forget store-bought all you need is a couple apples and a couple of hours.
The go-to apples for making apple chips are:
- fuji
- gala
- golden satisfying
- honeycrisp
- pink lady
Thinly slice the desired amount of apples. Two small to medium apples will fit on 2 standard, rimmed baking sheet pans.
For apple chips, you want the apples to be about 2-1/2 millimeters thick. The more uniform the thickness, the more evenly they will bake. I’ve linked to the mandolin slicer I have and love.
Next, toss the apples slices in the juice of 1/2 lemon (or lime works too). This is optional, but I found it does help keep them from overly browning.
Line a rimmed metal baking sheet and arrange the apple slices in an even layer.
Bake for 1 hour. After the first hour, use oven mitts to remove the pans from the oven. Careful flip each apple slice.
Bake for another hour.
If after 2 hours, the apples are firm but still a little bit soft, they can crisp up out of the oven while cooling. However, if the apple slices are too thick, they will need longer. I recommend to continue baking at 15 minute increments.
How To Store Kitchen-made Apple Chips:
Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
- Steep a slice or two with your regular tea or mulled beverage.
- Add as a garnish to your regular fall flavored soup, like kitchen-made squash soup, roasted ginger carrot soup or curried apple butternut squash soup.
- Crumble over ice cream or yogurt.
- Break up and add to your go-to granola.
- Use in your regular salad for texture and subtle sweetness.
Enjoy! And if you give this Crispy Baked Apple Chips recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!
The recipe
Chips: Crispy Baked Apple
Make healthy Baked Apple Chips at home! Save money and calories by baking thinly sliced apples, low and slow in your oven. Enjoy as a snack or add to oatmeal, granola, soups and salads (and more!).
- Serves 4 servings
- Prep 5 minutes
- Cook 2 hours
- Total 2 hours
Ingredients
- 2 medium apples (see notes)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional)
- a few pinches of ground cinnamon (optional)
Method
- 1
Preheat your oven to 200° (or 94℃) and line 2 rimmed, metal baking pans with a silicone mat or parchment.
- 2
Thinly slice the apples (no more than 2.5 millimeters thick) into a bowl.
- 3
Squeeze lemon juice over top and toss to coat. This step is optional.
- 4
On the prepared pans, arrange apple slices in an even layer.
- 5
Bake in your preheated oven for 1 hour. Use oven mitts to remove the pans.
- 6
Carefully flip each apple slice and bake for another hour.
- 7
If after 2 hours, the apples are firm but still a little bit soft, they can crisp up out of the oven while cooling. However, if the apple slices are too thick, they will need longer in the oven. I recommend to continue baking at 15 minute increments.
- 8
Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
From the cook
The go-to apples for making apple chips are fuji, gala, golden satisfying, honeycrisp or pink lady.
Tools
- OXO Good Grips Hand-held Mandolin
Per serving
- Serving1 g
- Calories48 kcal
- Carbohydrates13 g
- Sodium2 mg
- Fiber2 g
- Sugar10 g
