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Core essentials: the apple desserts you need for winter

An apple dessert a day keeps the winter blues at bay.
Overhead shot of a crusty apple pie with a bit spoonful taken out of the right hand side.

Miso caramel apple pie

James Moffatt

As the weather becomes colder, the lure of apple desserts become stronger. We like them baked into bubbling crumbles, folded intro strudels, and caramelised and layered into flaky puff-pastry tarts, tartes and tartlets. These are the apple desserts to cuddle up to this winter.

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Apple tart with Pedro Ximénez and quince syrup

Jaclyn Koludrovic's gluten-free pistachio, lime and coconut cream cake with melon, apple and mint
Photo: James Moffatt

Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free pistachio, lime and coconut cream cake with melon, apple and mint

Ricotta hotcakes with apple and honey
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Ricotta hotcakes with apple and honey

Apple strudel
Photo: William Meppem

Apple strudel

A round, crusty apple pie with a slice taken out of it, sitting on a light-blue linen tablecloth, with golden forks and a tumbler of amber-hued liquid to the side
Photo: Phillip Castleton

Classic apple pie

Cutler & Co's apple terrine with burnt-butter ice-cream, oat crumb and butterscotch sauce
Photo: Mark Roper

Cutler & Co’s apple terrine with burnt-butter ice-cream, oat crumb and butterscotch sauce

Spiced Fuji apple crumble with dulce de leche ice-cream
Photo: William Meppem

Spiced fuji apple crumble with dulce de leche ice-cream

Apple tarte Tatin
Photo: Chris Chen

Tarte Tatin

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Mille mele (thousand-layer apple tart)

Apple and and berry pudding in a rectangle dish, with a scoop taken out of it, sitting on a green napkin, with a plate of vanilla ice-cream in the top-left
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple and berry budino

Skillet apple pie recipe
Photo: Chris Chen

Skillet apple pie

Apfel kuchen
Photo: Prue Ruscoe

Brigitte Hafner’s apfel kuchen

A flat apple tart, with the top-left corner sliced off, on baking paper and a metal tray.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Squished apple tart

Mulled apple and spelt loaf
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Mulled apple and spelt loaf

Rhubarb and apple pie with warm cinnamon custard
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Rhubarb and apple pie with warm cinnamon custard

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Tarte fine aux pommes

Apple novel with salted liquorice ice-cream
Photo: William Meppem

Apple novel with salted liquorice ice-cream

Photo: William Meppem

Miso-caramel apples with macadamia crumble

Apple crumble ice-cream sandwiches
Photo: Chris Court

Apple crumble ice-cream sandwiches

Doughnuts with apple compote and custard
Photo: James Moffatt

Doughnuts with apple compote and custard

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple and cinnamon tarte fines with cinnamon crème anglaise

Mère Roux’s apple tartlet
Photo: William Meppem

Mère Roux’s apple tartlet

Baked apples with burnt cream
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Ester’s baked apples with burnt cream

Apple and sour cream yeasted scrolls
Photo: Chris Court

Apple and sour cream scrolls

Apple and candied ginger self-saucing pudding
Photo: William Meppem

Apple and candied ginger self-saucing pudding

Polenta, apple and ricotta fritters
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Polenta, apple and ricotta fritters

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Brioche apple custard tart

Apple-caramel sponge pudding
Photo: William Meppem

Apple-caramel sponge pudding

Six round apple buns on baking paper on a metal tray, held by a woman's hands painted with black nail polish
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple spice buns

Apple Anzac pie
Photo: Chris Chen

Apple Anzac pie

Apple-vanilla teacake with thick vanilla custard
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple-vanilla teacake with thick vanilla custard

Baked apple, soy caramel, crumble and cream
Photo: William Meppem

Three Blue Ducks’ baked apple, soy caramel, crumble and cream

Photo: Con Poulos

Rhubarb, apple and cinnamon cobbler

Photo: William Meppem

Caramelised apple danish with cardamom icing

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple and blackberry pandowdy

A steamed round apple pudding, drizzled with warm apricot jam, on a round plate with a silver fork on the right.
Photo: Teny Aghamalian

Apple Charlotte

Overhead shot of a crusty apple pie with a bit spoonful taken out of the right hand side.
Photo: James Moffatt

Miso caramel apple pie

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