These Homemade Apple Fritters are a perfect breakfast or brunch fall treat. They are crispy on the outside with a beautiful tender inside! Made with Mom's Homemade Apple Pie Filling, you get a bite of apple inside each fritter!
These apple fritters are delicious when hot and sprinkled with some confectioner's sugar or drizzle with some maple syrup or caramel sauce.
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❤️ Why I Love This Recipe
I love how these homemade apple fritters are delicious and crispy on the outside with a moist center with pieces of apple from the using apple pie filling. This is a super simple recipe that I don't mind dragging out the fryer for.
Apple fritters bring back memories from my childhood of mom making her apple fritters, homemade buttermilk doughnuts, and peanut butter fudge. Recipes like this give me that old-fashioned feel of recipes made with love!
🥘 Ingredients
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Flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt are the dry portion of this recipe.
Cinnamon and nutmeg give added flavor to the apple fritter.
Milk and apple pie filling, I make my mom's recipe for homemade apple pie filling, but you can use canned pie filling as well.
Vanilla extract is added as a flavor enhancer, this is my pick for vanilla extract. It's very affordable!
Butter adds more moisture and flavor.
🍽 Equipment
Mixing bowls, I love this set with the gripper bottoms.
Food chopper, I use this to chop the apples in the pie filling up into smaller pieces.
Wooden mixing spoon
Small cookie scoop, I use this to drop the batter into the hot oil.
🔪 Instructions
Step 1:
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Step 2:
- Add the milk, pie filling vanilla, and butter to the flour mixture. Stir until combined.
Step 3:
- Heat the oil to 350°F. Scoop with a small cookie scoop into hot oil.
- Flip the apple fritters once to brown evenly. Remove from the hot oil and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
📖 Variations
- Substitute 1-½ teaspoons of this Apple Pie Spice for the cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Use cherry pie filling in place of the apple pie filling, almond extract for vanilla extract and eliminate the spices.
- Make a glaze with powdered sugar and milk and double dip the apple fritters.
🍎 More Apple Recipes
- Apple Upside Down Cake
- Salted Caramel Apple Cake
- Apple Bundt Cake With Cider Caramel
- Apple Crisp Shortbread Bars
- Individual Apple Crisp
- Caramel Apple Cheese Danish
*If you made these Homemade Apple Fritters using pie filling, please give it a star rating*
📖 Recipe
Homemade Apple Fritters
Ingredients
- 1½ cups flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup homemade apple pie in a jar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons butter , melted
- Oil for frying
- cinnamon and/or confectioner's sugar, to sprinkle on top (optional)
Instructions
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Add the milk, pie filling vanilla, and butter to the flour mixture. Stir until combined.
- Heat the oil to 350°F. Scoop with a small cookie scoop into hot oil.
- Flip the apple fritters once to brown evenly. Remove from the hot oil and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Nutrition
Val - Corn, Beans, Pigs and Kids
These sound perfect for a cool, fall morning. My family likes to make a big "breakfast" at some point on Sundays (it is served for actual breakfast but sometimes dinner after church or supper at night) and I think this would be a hit with my family.
Wendy, A Day in the Life on the Farm
I make fritters at least once every apple season and I certainly want to make your Mom's pie filling so this will be my fritter recipe this Fall.
Carlee
I have been looking forward to seeing these puppies ever since I saw the sneak peek picture! They look scrumptious! I too have an aversion to frying things... but am going to have to throw it out the window for a batch of these!