This cinnamon baked apple chips recipe is one of the tastiest and healthy snacks around. Thin slices of apples are dusted with cinnamon and crisply baked into a snack that you can feel good about. Pack ’em in the lunch box and snack to your heart’s content!
Whether it’s extra garden bounty or a sale at the supermarket, dehydrating food is a budget-friendly way to stock up for later. You can use a food dehydrator, a low temperature oven, or natural sunshine to preserve natural healthfulness.
This apple chips recipe was made using the “low slow oven” method.
The first time I ever dehydrated food in my oven was when I made my own sun dried tomatoes. I love that recipe!
Because it takes a couple of hours to bake these up, this baked apple chips recipe is the perfect project for a rainy day. In addition to having the house smell amazing from the cinnamon and apples baking, I think it’s awesome that no sugar is needed in this sweet treat.
These baked apple chips are pretty much the easiest healthy snack you can make in your oven. Just thinly slice some apples, dust them with cinnamon, and bake on low until they’re dried and crispy like potato chips.
You can use any variety of apple you want, but the first time I made them, I used organic Envy apples. Just like the ones I used to make my apple pie ice cream bowls. By the way, have you seen that post? That is a seriously awesome dessert!
Anyhoo, I love Envy apples because they don’t oxidize (turn brown) like some of the other varieties do. The second time I made them, I used some gorgeous organic Cortland apples that I got in my weekly organic produce box. I used a mandoline to make my apple slices really thin.
Be super careful using a mandoline, though. They are freaking dangerous, especially when unnamed people (ME) ignore the handy dandy food guard that comes with it. Do not, under any circumstances, avoid using the food guard! No, no no…. well, unless you LIKE losing parts of fingers and having roaring blood and oozing scars, and ewwww… just use the guard, please. 🙂
Another bonus of this baked apple chips recipe is the nutritional value: They’re loaded with healthy fiber, NO added sugar, and they’re naturally vegan and gluten-free! Snack and enjoy, my friends!
Let’s get going on this baked apple chips recipe.
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Baked Cinnamon Apple Chips Recipe
Thinly sliced apples are dusted with cinnamon and baked until crispy and sweet. Full of fiber, no added sugar, and they're even vegan and gluten free!
Ingredients
- 2 apples (your favorite variety - I used Envy apples)
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Set oven to 200 degrees F
- Line a stoneware or similar rimmed, heavy bottomed sheet pan with parchment paper
- Use the smallest setting on a mandoline or a knife to very carefully cut paper thin slices of apple (about 1/16th of an inch). Remove and discard any seeds from the center of each slice, then arrange slices in a single layer onto the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle slices liberally with the cinnamon.
- Bake for 90 minutes, then flip each slice and bake for another 60-90 minutes, or until the chips are crispy and no longer soft.
- If placed into an airtight container, the chips will stay good for 4-5 days, but I doubt that they'll last that long!
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Katie Cavuto says
This looks SOO good and simple. Can’t wait to try this one out! 🙂
Chef Becca says
I appreciate you stopping by, Katie!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
These look amazing Becca and so easy too! Pinned!
Chef Becca says
Thank you, Trish! It really is an incredibly easy recipe!
The Food Explorer says
Hi Becca,
Your delicious recipe has been nominated as one of the “Top 100 Best Apple Recipes of 2014 for National Apple Month”. You and your readers can vote for it here: http://thefoodexplorer.com/fruit-2/100-delicious-apple-recipes-for-national-apple-month/ (position #45 – random order).
Happy National Apple Month! 🙂
Chef Becca says
Thank you so much for the nomination! The lineup of recipes looks very competitive, but I appreciate that you nominated my cinnamon apple chips recipe
Serena | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch says
I love apple chips! Always a favorite!
Stacy says
I have bought these in a bag and loved them but yours look much more wonderful and are probably much healthier too, Becca. I wish I could get those Envy apples!
Chef Becca says
Thanks, Stacy! I can’t even tell you how good Envy apples are. I know you’re half way across the world, but if we can get fruit from New Zealand in the States, I would be that you can get it in Dubai! Just ask the produce manager where you shop for groceries. They’re SO tasty!
Shashi at RunninSrilankan says
What a quick and easy snack!! I need to stay far away from a mandolin – I sure hope blood isn’t roaring out of your fingers and your scars have stopped oozing too – the stuff you endure to put good, healthy and tasty snacks in our bellies is mind boggling 🙂
Chef Becca says
Haha! The blood stopped gushing a couple of weeks ago, Shashi, but that nasty scar is gonna be with me for a while. Mandolines are a necessary evil… I think they just need to be sold with a cutting glove! 🙂
Shashi at RunninSrilankan says
What a quick and easy snack!!! I need to stay far away from a mandolin – I sure hope blood isn’t roaring out of your fingers and your scars have stopped oozing too – the stuff you endure to put good, healthy and tasty snacks in our bellies is mind boggling 🙂
Amanda says
I need to make these now!
Karen says
I love that, thanks to you, I can now make these myself.
David says
These apples look awesome, Becca! I’ve never made chips of any sort at home…I always assumed I needed a dehydrator. Looks like I was wrong…thanks for the inspiration!
Chef Becca says
Thanks, Dave. They’re super easy to make… they just require patience. I know, sometimes that can be the biggest challenge of all 😉
Liz says
These are truly gorgeous! And I’d be eating them by the handfuls!
Chef Becca says
Thank you, Lizzy. They’re pretty addicting for a healthy little chip 🙂
Audra says
Yum! Apple Chips are a fall family favorite here and they never last more than a day! Beautiful photos 🙂
Chef Becca says
Thank you so much, Audra! I thought I was a pumpkin lover, but I’m beginning to think that this is the year of the apple 🙂
adam j. holland says
Beautiful photo in so many ways. (Watch out Saveur and Bon Appetit!) I don’t know that I’ve ever craved apple chips … until now. Here’s the deal with using a mandolin — it’s one of those contraptions that is usually better, the more you spend on it. But a better contraption also means a sharper blade. I tend not to use the guard, but that is my version of sky-diving or swimming with sharks. 😉
Chef Becca says
What a sweet compliment… thank you so much, Adam. Culinary sky-diving with a mandoline? Haha! I think I’ll stick to deep frying in a 3-inch deep skillet and call it a day.
Chris says
That’s fall in a bowl right there! They look beautiful!
Chef Becca says
Thanks so much, Chris!
Jessica says
These are beautiful and they look delicious! Wish I had the patience to make them 😉
Chef Becca says
Thanks, Jessica. It’s easy to make them… just set it and forget it 😉 While you’re waiting, keep your patience busy dancing around the house 😉
Annemarie (Real Food Real Deals) says
What a simple recipe! These look so great. I’ve never dried my own apples, but I’ll try this after I go apple picking this week. Thanks!
Chef Becca says
It’s super easy, Annemarie! I hope you make and enjoy the apple chips recipe 🙂
Lindsey says
I have always wanted to make apple chips! Yours look generously sprinkled with cinnamon, which makes them the BEST in my book! I don’t know why it has taken me so long! Pinned!
Chef Becca says
When it comes to cinnamon in my life, it’s go big or go home, Lindsey! I don’t know why I’m always so late to the recipe bandwagon party, but I’m SO glad I finally made these apple chips!
gretchen | kumquat says
ok, these look delightful, but that apple pie bowl is downright brilliant!!
Chef Becca says
So sweet of you to say, Gretchen…. thank you!