Easy Oven-Dried Apple Chips Recipe (2024)

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It's easy to make oven-dried apple chips at home. You don't need a dehydrator. Just a little patience while this healthy snack bakes.

And it's worth the wait! Much like pear chips and beet chips, sweet, crispy homemade baked apple chips rival any store-bought version.

Look on the bright side. Since the apple slices bake low and slow, you'll have plenty of time to do other things, like making pumpkin cream cheese dip or Almond Butter Yogurt Dip to scoop them in. And your house will smell amazing!

I'm a big fan of air fryers and microwaves to save time making healthy alternatives to chips. However, in my humble opinion, these methods are best for a single serving.

Why? A plate of microwave zucchini chips disappears in seconds at our house.

Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make dried apple chips in the oven:

• Apples - Use fresh, crisp apples for the best results. The flavor intensifies and becomes more concentrated as moisture is removed. Sweet varieties like Ambrosia, Honey Crisp, Royal Gala, Pink Lady®, Red Delicious, and Fuji are all fantastic choices.
• Cinnamon is optional. It depends on how you are going to use the chips (see the section below for some ideas.) Apple pie spice and pumpkin pie spice can also be used.

If you're using a sweet apple, you won't need to add sugar to this recipe!

Equipment

A mandoline slicer is handy for quickly and uniformly cutting an apple. However, you only need a steady hand and a sharp knife!

You can core the apple before slicing it using an apple corer to make apple rings. However, we just used a knife to flick out any seeds.

Directions

If you've made homemade sweet potato chips, you'll be at home making dried apple chips in the oven. Here's how to do it:

1. Cut apples into slices about ⅛ inch thick using a mandoline or a knife. There will be seeds in some of the slices. Use the knife tip to remove them. It's important to make them a consistent thickness so they dry out evenly.
   • Optional: Remove the core and seeds before slicing to make apple rings.
2. Place sliced apples on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
3. Sprinkle with cinnamon if desired.
4. Bake for approximately 2 hours at 225 °F, turning the apple slices over at about 1 and ½ hours. The exact time will vary based on the oven, the slices' thickness, and the type of apple used. After the 2-hour mark, lift one out to test and continue cooking until they reach the desired crispiness.
   • Note: The chips continue to crisp as they cool. Mine have a crunch at this point and will break in half if I drop one on the floor!

FAQ

Ways to Use Dried Apple Chips

There are so many ways to serve apple chips that have been dehydrated.

• Add them to a salad for a crunchy topper.
• Top oatmeal with them. We make a big batch of crock-pot steel cut oats at night and crunch them over the top at breakfast!
• Garnish soups. They're a fantastic garnish for spicy butternut squash apple soup.
• Top yogurt, whipped cottage cheese dessert cups, or chia pudding.
• Turn them into healthy apple nachos.
• Use them to scoop dip or hummus! Try them with the Nut Butter Yogurt Dip (see the recipe below.)
• Enjoy them right out of the bowl or in a lunchbox.

Storage

Store dried apple chips for up to one week in an airtight container.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away! So what are you waiting for? Make these healthy apple chips, stat!

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This recipe was originally published on October 10, 2013, and has been updated to improve the reader experience.

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