Baked Apple Chips

These easy-to-make, Baked Apple Chips are crunchy with just a touch of sweetness.  They make a perfect healthy after-school snack or a late-night snack attack!

School has been back in session for over a month now, and both kids have an early lunch this year.  Even though I send extra snacks in their lunch boxes, they seem to be hungrier than ever when they get home.  

One of our favorite snacks of late are these baked apple chips.  

They’re perfect for this time of year with apples being in season, plus they give off such a delicious cinnamony-apple scent, it makes the whole house smell like fall.

Baked apple chips are really easy to make.  I like to toss them in the oven while making my lunch and they’ll be ready when the kids get home from school. (If you can keep yourself from eating them all, that is!)  

Want more healthy snacks?  See them here.

Ingredients + Notes

(Ingredients at a glance, find the full recipe and instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.)

• Apples | Granny Smiths, Gala, Gloden Delicious, Pink Lady, and/or Fuji apples are great choices.
• Cinnamon Sugar | You can buy cinnamon sugar premixed, but if you don’t have that, it is a .5 to one cinnamon sugar ratio. (Meaning 1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon for every 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar. Or you can be like me and buy the premade cinnamon sugar once and then just keep refilling the container with your mixture for the next 20 years, lol.)
• Lemon juice

How to make baked apple chips

1. Preheat the oven to 225° F.
2. Mix lemon into a bowl of water.
3. Slice apples as thin as possible, removing seeds. Keeping the slices as uniform as possible.
4. Dip apple slices in lemon water and pat dry.  Arrange in thin layers on a parchment paper or Silpat mat on a baking sheet.
5. Sprinkle the apple slices with cinnamon sugar.
6. Bake apples for one hour.  After 1 hour, flip apple slices, sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar and bake for another 30 minutes to an hour, or until apples are dry and crisp.

Recipe tips:

1. Larger apples work best. (The apple slices will shrink when as they bake.)
2. The thinner you can slice the apples, the crispier they will be. I used a mandoline to get my super thin. If you don’t have a mandolin and are unable to get super thin slices, your baked apples will still be delicious, but they won’t be crisp.
3. Don’t skip the cooling time! I know it will be tempting to eat the baked apple chips straight from the oven, but they need the cooling time to crisp up properly

FAQ’s

The apple chips are good for more than after-school snacks, of course – they’re crunchy and slightly sweet so if you are trying to satisfy that late evening snack craving these are the perfect solution! 

We love them broken up over yogurt or oatmeal, and they are super yummy with a peanut butter dip or cream cheese fruit dip.

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