Homemade Apple Fritters Recipe using Pie Filling - Grumpy's Honeybunch (2024)

ThisHomemade Apple Fritters Donutrecipe 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.

❤️ 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 saltare the dry ingredients for this recipe.

Cinnamon and nutmeggive added flavor to the apple fritter.

Milk and apple pie filling, I make my mom's recipe forhomemade apple pie filling, but you can use canned pie filling as well.

Vanilla extractis added as a flavor enhancer,this is my pick for vanilla extract. It's very affordable!

Butteradds more moisture and flavor.

Vegetable oil for deep frying

🔪 Instructions

1. Line a baking sheet with paper towels and set aside. In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk milk, apple pie filling, vanilla, and melted butter. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
3. 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.
4. 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 setwith 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 thisApple Spice Blendfor 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.

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🍽 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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