These 5-ingredient stovetop warm cinnamon apples are the perfect quick fall treat, ready in under 15 minutes! Tender apples sautéed in butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon create a deliciously comforting dessert that tastes just like homemade apple pie filling. Perfect for cozy nights or as a topping for pancakes, ice cream, or oatmeal!
Enjoy a simple and delicious recipe for warm apples with cinnamon! Perfect for cozy days, these tender apples are spiced with cinnamon and brown sugar. A comforting dessert or topping for oatmeal, ice cream, and more.
Apple cinnamon dessert ingredients
Apples: Any variety of apples like Gala, Fuji, Jonagold, Mackintosh, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, or Pink Lady can be used to make this warm apple with cinnamon. You may cook this gooey apple dessert with peel on or peeled.
Butter: I love to cook apples with butter. You may replace butter with coconut oil or plant-based butter to make it vegan.
Brown sugar: Brown sugar gives a deeper caramel like flavour to the apple dessert recipe.
Cinnamon: Cinnamon can be added as per taste. You may increase or reduce the quantity as per your taste.
How to make warm apples with cinnamon?
- Peel, core, and slice the apple into ¼ inch thick slices.
- Heat a pan and add butter.
- After butter melts, add apple slices and sauté apples for 2-3 minutes.
- Add brown sugar, cinnamon, a pinch of salt and mix.
- Cover and cook apples for 5 minutes on medium – low flame stirring occasionally.
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How to serve this simple spiced apple dessert?
This dessert made with cooked apples on stove can be served as a stand-alone side dish with any meal or with breakfast like oatmeal, overnight oats, yogurt, or crepes. It may also be served as a topping for pancakes, ice cream, waffles, French toast, muffins, etc.
Variations
Some people add spices like nutmeg and cardamom to this spiced apple dessert. Sometimes lemon juice is also added to balancing the sweetness of apples.
If you want a thicker apple sauce, add a paste of corn flour and water while cooking the apples with spices.
Storing & re-heating
Leftover apple cinnamon dessert maybe stored in airtight container in refrigerator for 3-5 days. You may even freeze it in an airtight container, just remember to bring it to room temperature before re-heating in microwave.
Warm Cinnamon Apples
Ingredients
- 2 apples
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- A pinch salt
Instructions
- Peel, core, and slice the apple into ¼ inch thick slices.
- Heat a pan and add butter.
- After butter melts, add apple slices and sauté for 2-3 minutes.
- Add brown sugar, cinnamon, a pinch of salt and mix.
- Cover and cook for 5 minutes on medium – low flame stirring occasionally.
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Notes
- Some people add spices like nutmeg and cardamom to this spiced apple dessert. Sometimes lemon juice is also added to balancing the sweetness of apples.
- If you want a thicker apple sauce, add a paste of corn flour and water while cooking the apples with spices.
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