This Homemade Apple Fritters Donut recipe is a perfect breakfast or brunch recipe on Sunday morning.
It is one of my favorite apple recipes with a crispy outside crust and a tender delicious inside made with apple pie filling.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
✔️ Apple fritter doughnuts are delicious and crispy on the outside with a tender center with small pieces of apple from the using apple pie filling.
✔️ You can make your own apple fritters recipe for less than you would pay for them at your local donut shop.
🥘 Ingredients
🥘 Ingredients
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All purpose Flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt are the dry ingredients for 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.
Vegetable oil for deep frying
🔪 Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with paper towels and set aside. In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- In a medium bowl, whisk milk, apple pie filling, vanilla, and melted butter. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a large dutch oven to 350°F. Scoop donut batter with a small cookie scoop, carefully placing into hot oil. Cook for 1 minute, until fritters are brown on bottom side.
- Flip the apple fritters and cook another 2 minutes, until golden brown color and cooked on the inside. Remove the fritters from from the hot oil with a slotted spoon and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
🥄 Equipment
Deep fryer or large dutch oven
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
Candy thermometer to check temperature of the oil.
Small cookie scoop, I use this to drop the batter into the hot oil.
Paper towels to absorb grease when draining fritters.
🥫Storage
Store in an airtight container on the counter up to 3 days, or on the freezer up to 3 months. To reheat apple fritters, place in an air fryer or oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, until hot. Serve as suggested.
📖 Variations
- Substitute 1-½ teaspoons of this Apple Spice Blend 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.
- In a small bowl, mix 2 cups powdered sugar with enough milk to make a thick glaze then dip fritters into glaze and place on wire rack to dry.
- Substitute 1 cup chopped fresh apples for the apple filling. Honeycrisp or Granny smith apples are good crisp apples to use.
- For a deeper caramel like flavor substitute brown sugar for the granulated sugar.
💭 Pro Tip
- If dipping fritters in a glaze, place parchment paper beneath the wire rack to catch drips.
📚 Related Recipes
- Apple Cider Donuts
- Apple Filled Cinnamon Rolls
- Butter Rum Glazed Applesauce Cake Recipe
- Salted Caramel Apple Cake with Toasted Walnuts
- Mom's Buttermilk Donuts
🍽 Serve with...
I love to serve each apple fritter donut hot with a drizzle of maple syrup, or a sprinkling of cinnamon or confectioner's sugar sprinkled on top of the fritters.
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📖 Recipe
Homemade Apple Fritters
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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 Mom's Apple Pie Filling
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons butter , melted
- Oil for frying
- cinnamon and/or confectioner's sugar, to sprinkle on top (optional)
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with paper towels and set aside. In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- In a medium bowl, whisk milk, apple pie filling, vanilla, and melted butter. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a large dutch oven to 350°F. Scoop donut batter with a small cookie scoop, carefully placing into hot oil. Cook for 1 minute, until fritters are brown on bottom side.
- Flip the apple fritters and cook another 2 minutes, until golden brown color and cooked on the inside. Remove the fritters from from the hot oil with a slotted spoon and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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Val - Corn, Beans, Pigs and Kids says
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 says
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 says
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!