The Best Apples For Eating, Baking And Sauce

Finding the best apples for eating, baking and sauce can be rather confusing when surrounded by a lot of varieties of apples. Here is a guide to help you find the best ones.

We enjoy apples at our house. Actually, they are my all around favorite fruit. Apples can be eaten raw, cooked, baked in a dessert or main dish and eaten as a side dish. They travel well, are juicy, sweet and tart. You can add cinnamon to them (hello!) and they taste amazing with brown sugar.

Besides my appreciation for cookies, I would have to say the apple pie is my favorite, favorite dessert.

Do you ever make apple pies? I have and I will say the right apple is key to a delicious pie. If you get an apple that is not for baking, the pie could have a mushy texture. Will I still eat it? Oh, of course, but really, who wants to eat a pie with mushy apples? Apple pie needs a apple that doesn’t come apart when cooking, instead it has that nice crunch when bitten into.

{I am going to the store and buying apples. I have got to make a pie.}

The other day, my sister gave me some apples off of her tree. I was thrilled because I don’t have an apple tree any more since we moved. I used to make homemade applesauce a lot.

I had the apples boiling and my food mill ready to start churning out the applesauce.

Well, the best thought out plans, right? The apples she gave me were not designed for applesauce, at all. They would not mash. After almost 50 minutes of frustration, I finally gave up and my applesauce dreams were dashed.

I still have a lot of apples left, too. :-(

I honestly had thought all apples would make applesauce. I mean, you take an apple and you smash it. Hence, the applesauce. Apparently not.

I thought I would compile a short list of popular types of apples to help you find the apples you want for eating, baking or making applesauce. No frustration for you. :-)

It is a short list of the most popular apples, ones you would likely see at the store. Would you like a PDF copy to print? Print off Apple Dictionary to keep in your recipe box.

I am rather disgruntled over the prices of apples lately and I am for a price point of $.99. If they are that price, I try to buy a lot. The kids love those sales. :-)