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Baked Caramel Apple Fritters

Averie Sunshine

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Updated: Sep 10, 2026

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Baked Apple Fritters 🍎🍁 Love the taste of apple fritters but don’t want the calories or hassle that comes with frying them? Then these FAST and EASY baked apple fritters made with just four main ingredients are PERFECT!

Easy Baked Homemade Apple Fritters Recipe

• I have fond childhood memories of going to the local bakery and devouring fresh, warm, and admittedly greasy, apple fritters.

• It was the type of bakery that you could smell from blocks away as the scent of fresh dough and grease wafted freely through the air. When you’re a kid you don’t concern yourself much with that though!

• However, at this point in life, when I can bake something rather than fry it, I do so and these baked apple fritters couldn’t be easier.

• They’re made with just four main ingredients, including a major convenience item; namely, refrigerated biscuit dough.  These baked apple fritters are so fast to make and are ready in just 15 minutes!

Ingredients in Baked Apple Fritters

• Refrigerated biscuit dough: This shortcut ingredient is what keeps these baked apple fritters fast, easy, and no-fry. I have only tested the recipe with refrigerated biscuit dough, and most varieties should work. Crescent roll dough may work, but I have not tested it. Homemade biscuit dough would turn this into a much bigger baking project, and this recipe is meant to be all about convenience.
• Canned apple pie filling: Adds sweet apple flavor without peeling, chopping, or cooking fresh apples. I have only tested this recipe with canned apple pie filling and do not recommend using raw chopped apples.
• Cinnamon or apple pie spice: Optional, but either one adds extra warm fall flavor.
• Butter: Brushed over the fritters to help them bake up golden and flavorful.
• Caramels and heavy cream: Melt them together for an easy caramel drizzle. You can also use a thick caramel sauce, such as Trader Joe’s salted caramel sauce, or Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce. Avoid thin caramel sundae sauce because it will be too runny.

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Apple Fritters in the Oven

1. Separate the biscuit dough discs, cut each one into about 10 small pieces, then dice the larger apple chunks from the pie filling into bite-sized pieces.
2. Stir together the biscuit pieces and apple pie filling, adding cinnamon or apple pie spice if you want extra cozy fall flavor. I don’t recommend using fresh chopped apples here because the canned pie filling is already soft, saucy, and ready to go.
3. Spoon the apple fritter batter onto a baking sheet, drizzle the mounds with melted butter, and bake until golden and set.
4. Finish the warm fritters with caramel sauce. You can melt caramel candies with cream or use a thick store-bought caramel sauce, but either way, serve these right away because baked apple fritters are definitely best fresh.

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4.61 from 23 votes

Baked Caramel Apple Fritters

By Averie Sunshine

🍎🍁 Love the taste of apple fritters but don't want the calories or hassle that comes with frying them? Then these FAST and EASY baked apple fritters made with just four main ingredients are PERFECT!

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes minutes

Total Time: 17 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Equipment

• Sheet Pan

Ingredients 

• ▢ one 8-count tube refrigerated biscuit dough
• ▢ 21- ounce jar apple pie filling
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cinnamon or apple pie spice, optional and to taste
• ▢ 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• ▢ 24 unwrapped square caramel candies
• ▢ 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, or caramel sauce may be substituted

Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat liner for easier cleanup; set aside.
• Open the biscuit dough, separate dough discs, dice each disc into about 10 pieces, and place in a large bowl; set aside.
• Open the apple pie filling, fish out the large apple chunks with a fork or your fingers, place them on a cutting board, dice the large apples into smaller bite-sized pieces, and add them to the bowl with the diced dough.
• Add the remaining apple pie filling sauce, optionally add cinnamon or apple pie spice, and stir to combine.
• Spoon heaping 1/4 cup-fulls of the batter onto the prepared baking sheet, then evenly distribute and spoon a bit of the melted butter over each mound of batter.
• Bake for about 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly golden browned and the dough is set and cooked through; set aside to cool.
• To a medium microwave-safe bowl, add the caramels, cream, and heat in 30-second bursts until the caramels have melted and can be stirred smooth.
• Evenly drizzle the caramel sauce over the apple fritters. Alternatively, store bought or homemade caramel sauce or salted caramel sauce* may be used instead.
• Apple fritters are best warm and fresh. This is one of those desserts that doesn't keep well in the fridge. 

Notes

Yield: I made 12 apple fritters but depending on if you want them larger, you can reduce the yield to 8 or 10 rather than 12.

Caramel sauce: I like to use Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce or try Trader Joe’s Salted Caramel Sauce. Use a thick sauce rather than a thinner ice cream sundae type of sauce.

Nutrition

Serving: 1, Calories: 288cal, Carbohydrates: 65g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Cholesterol: 8mg, Sodium: 370mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 59g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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