These chips are a hover situation. As in, I’m going hover in the kitchen, hover over the container, and hover anywhere else where I can feasibly sneak another little handful before someone else beats me to it. Because these baked cinnamon apple chips are a healthy snack, you can hover to your heart’s content.
About These Apple Chips
My first experience with homemade apple chips was elementary school, when my dad purchased a food dehydrator and decided that we were going to dry everything. At one point, we had such a backup of assorted dried fruit and jerky that we probably could have hiked the Appalachian Trail. While I don’t plan on purchasing a food dehydrator myself anytime soon, I still love apple chips and, fortunately, they are easy to bake in the oven. In fact, I’d argue that baked apple chips taste even better than the machine-dehydrated ones because:
You can make them truly crisp, versus chewy, similar to ones you’d find in a shiny bag.They don’t require an extra piece of bulky kitchen equipment that takes up precious counter space.
While I baked these often when Ben was in law school, I hadn’t busted out a batch in years. After bringing home a particularly large apple haul from my local Wisconsin grocery store, however, I decided to refresh my memory and try making them once more. They were outstanding! Dear Apple Chips, I won’t forget you again.
How to Make Apple Chips
These do take a while to bake (2 to 3 hours of low and slow), but I promise your house will smell magnificent by the end. Your cinnamon baked apple chips will be crispy, and after one bite, you’ll be hovering over the pan too!
Ingredients
Apples. Aside from being totally delicious, apples contain vital nutrients like vitamin C, fiber, and antioxidants that have been shown to boost heart, brain, and digestive health.
Cinnamon. An apple’s BFFE. You just cannot beat the aroma and flavor of cinnamon with apples.
Directions
Like the Slow Cooker Apple Butter I shared a few weeks ago, once you see how easy and deliciously rewarding it is to make homemade apple chips from scratch, you’ll start to wonder why you haven’t been doing it this way all along.
