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8 recipes for apple picking season from PBS Food

Don your flannel, grab your basket and fill it with apples.

Tara Lovdahl

09/29/25

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Don your flannel, grab your basket and fill it with apples. It’s time to bake and cook incredible dishes packed with pectin.

Explore these eight recipes from PBS Food to up your apple game this year!

An apple and olive oil cake adorned with powdered sugar, with a missing a piece.

Apple Olive Oil Cake

This apple olive oil cake is perfect for snacking, and the recipe is very straightforward. (Recipe Credit: Adrianna Adarme of Fresh Tastes.)

A glamor shot of an apple hand pie sitting on top of another hand pie, on a plate next to an apple.

Apple Hand Pie

With apples tossed in sugar, butter and cinnamon, these easy apple hand pies come together in less than 30 minutes. (Recipe Credit: Marc Matsumoto of Fresh Tastes.)

A stunning overhead view of a celery and apple salad.

Celery and Apple Salad

This celery and apple salad with toasted almonds and a simple vinaigrette is the perfect transitional dish between winter and spring. (Recipe Credit: Adrianna Adarme of Fresh Tastes.)

A glamor shot of a cinnamon swirl sheet pan bake next to a cup of coffee.

Cinnamon-Swirl Apple Slab Pie

Make Martha Stewart’s Cinnamon-Swirl Apple Slab Pie from the “Apples” episode of Martha Bakes.

A glamor shot of a decorative apple pie, surrounded by apples, and a logo, "John Bunker's Apple Pie" next to it.

John Bunker’s Apple Pie

Apple pie is a great way to appreciate the incredible variety and diversity of this glorious fruit. This apple pie recipe is courtesy of John Bunker, “The Apple Whisperer.”

A close up glamor shot of a stack of pancakes, complete with butter and syrup.

Spiced Apple Walnut Pancakes

Borrowing a technique from carrot cake, these apple-spiced walnut pancakes will get you in the mood for fall. (Recipe Credit: Adrianna Adarme of Fresh Tastes.)

A stack of old-fashioned applejacks bunched together on their side, in a small sheet pan.

Old Timey Applejacks

This classic Southern dessert is a wonderful use of seasonal apples by chef Vivian Howard.

A close up of toffee apple doughnuts.

Toffee Apple Doughnuts

Richard’s toffee apple doughnuts recipe appears in the Advanced Dough episode of The Great British Baking Show.

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