Easy Mini Caramel Apple Cheesecakes

You are in for a fall treat! These cute mini cheesecakes are bursting with caramel apple flavor and are the perfect dessert to bring to your next gathering. They are made with a classic graham cracker crust, a layer of my favorite caramel sauce and rich and creamy vanilla cheesecake. They are then topped with cubed apples that have been cooked in cinnamon and nutmeg and drizzled with even more caramel sauce. You will fall in love with how tasty these are!

I love that these mini cheesecakes are so much quicker to make than a traditional cheesecake and are much more hassle-free. The inspiration came from my Salted Caramel Cheesecake, which also has caramel sauce in the filling, but is a full sized cheesecake and takes longer to make. These mini versions bake up and cool in a fraction of the time and are so delicious with the addition of apples. Plus, you don’t have to worry about water baths, springform pans, or messy slicing.

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Decadent Caramel Apple Cookie Cups

Cookie cups are such a great treat. They’re a fun spin on classic cookies that allow you to add more textures, layers and flavors to cookies with ease. All you have to do is spoon your favorite fillings into a deliciously chewy vessel that was just as easy to make as a basic cookie.

And these particular cookie cups are perfect as we move into fall. The cookies themselves are moist and tender, the apples are soft and tender, and the salted caramel sauce is always a hit. The whole thing is spiced with some cinnamon and nutmeg and the final cookie is heavenly. The prefect cross between cookie and pie!

These cookies are great served warm or at room temperature. The caramel will be more melty the warmer they are, which can get messy but is also delicious. Having them closer to room temperature gives a gooey texture without them being too melty.

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The Best Homemade Apple Pie

This Homemade Apple Pie is going to become your go-to apple pie recipe! It’s absolutely delicious, easy to prepare ahead of time, and bakes beautifully. It also solves common pie problems such as having an undercooked filling or experiencing the dreaded pie gap!

After testing LOTS of apple pie recipes, I can say with total certainty that this is the BEST! With this apple pie, you’ll experience simple and classic flavors that are anything but boring. The apples are tender without being mushy and have enough sauciness to hold things together without being runny.

The apples in this recipe are pre-cooked. Before you run, hear me out! While it’s common to add uncooked apples to apple pie, it’s also common to experience epic failures when making apple pie. Even though it’s an extra step, precooking your apples eliminates those issues. 

Plus – and this is my favorite part – precooking the apples actually makes prepping your pie ahead of time even easier. You can prep your pie crust and the filling several days ahead of time and then assemble and bake the day you want to serve it.

As with any homemade pie recipe, this apple pie is a labor of love and time. But the satisfaction you’ll experience when you take that first bite of apple goodness will be worth every minute!

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This post is sponsored by Challenge Butter, but all opinions are my own.

Fail-Proof Apple Fritter Recipe

Once you taste one of these light and tender apple fritter donuts, you’ll swear off all store-bought fritters for the rest of your life. Those pre-made letdowns couldn’t begin to compare to these quick and easy clusters of heaven.

My whole family went absolutely nuts for them. The hubs even said they’re some of the best things he’s ever eaten – and he has tested a lot of treats! We nearly fought to the death over who got to claim the last fritter.

The combination of tasty apples, comforting spices and warm, pillowy donut is just delightful. When I tested and refined this recipe, I found that a slightly thicker batter gave me the results I was after. A thinner batter made the fritters feel more like funnel cake. While I love a good funnel cake, a fritter is a donut, so it needs to have a little more structure and texture to it.

These fritters definitely deliver. They’re not too dense or heavy, but just right. Plus, they’re jam-packed with tender and delicious apples!

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Easy Spiced Apple Cider Recipe

A hot mug of cider on a crisp fall day is the coziest thing I can think of. This easy apple cider charms your taste buds with classic fall spices and warms you up from the inside out. Plus, it makes your whole entire house smell heavenly while it slowly simmers over the stove.

This isn’t just a homemade version of your average apple cider – it’s a specific variety known as mulled apple cider. Regular cider usually sticks with apples as its sole ingredient while mulled cider incorporates spices and citrus fruit.

Classic apple cider is also meant to be served cold, but for mulled cider, the opposite is true. That being said, this foolproof mulled cider is just as amazing straight out of the fridge!

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