Best Ever Baked Vegan Apple Fritters
These baked vegan apple fritters are a delicious way to enjoy the comforting flavours of autumn in a sweet, crispy treat. Plus, they’re super quick and easy to make! Made with juicy apples and warmly spiced with a cinnamon sugar frosting, these fritters are lightly baked to give them a golden, crunchy exterior with a soft, fluffy inside. Traditionally fried, I much prefer the texture and taste of these goodies baked. Serve them on their own with a cup of tea or with your favourite vegan vanilla ice cream for a delicious dessert.
What you need
What you need-
apples
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lemon
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flour
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caster sugar
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salt
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baking powder
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ground cinnamon
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non-dairy milk
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vegan butter melted
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vanilla extract
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apple sauce
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icing sugar
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cinnamon
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maple syrup
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water or plant-based milk
How to make vegan apple fritters
How to make vegan apple frittersFirst, prepare your apples by peeling and chopping. And then add a little fresh lemon juice to the apples, stir, and set the aside. This keeps them from browning.
Preheat the oven to 220°C/420 °F, and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone mats.
Combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, ground cinnamon in a bowl. Then in a separate bowl mix the milk, melted butter, vanilla extract, and apple sauce.
Next, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Then simply fold in the apples.
Now our fritter mix is ready, we can set them on our prepared baking tray. Place a heaped tablespoon of the batter onto the baking sheets, and then repeat until all the batter is used.
Then, place in the oven and bake for approximately 20 minutes, until golden. During, make sure you keep an eye on them as ovens can vary.
Instead of frying, baking them makes them less oily, and more fluffy on the inside. Plus, in my opinion, a lot simpler!
Once they are golden brown, remove from the oven, leave to cool for 5 minutes, and then place on a cooling rack to fully cool.
Meanwhile we can prepare our sugary coating. For this, mix the icing sugar with cinnamon, then stir in the remaining lemon juice, maple syrup and add enough water until you get a thick glaze. This should taste divine and is the perfect topping to compliment our apple fritter bites.
Once the fritters are cooled, drizzle with the frosting all over. Then allow the glaze to drizzle off the fritters and set a little, then serve.
Alternatively, you can coat them with a mix of cinnamon and sugar by tossing in a bowl, or serve them warm using the icing as a dip. To note: you need to achieve an internal heat of 210°C for the fritters to be fully cooked through.
Fancy more sweet vegan recipes?
- Vegan Maple and Walnut Pumpkin Bread
- Blackberry Banana Bread
- Italian Lemon and Raspberry Olive Oil Cake
- Vegan Lemon Shortbread
- Vegan Choc Chip Cookies
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Best ever Vegan Apple Fritters
Ingredients
- 4 apples (peeled, cored and cut into bite size pieces)
- 1 lemon (juiced )
- 250 g plain flour
- 40 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder (heaped)
- Salt (just a pinch)
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 200 ml non-dairy milk
- 40 g vegan butter
- 125 ml apple sauce (from a jar)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
For the Icing
- 200 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- water (splash if needed )
Instructions
- Start by adding a little fresh lemon juice to the apples, stir, and set the aside to stop them from browning.
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/420 °F, and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone mats.
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, ground cinnamon in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl, mix the milk, melted butter, vanilla extract, and apple sauce.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir to combine, then fold in the apples.
- Place a heaped tablespoon of the batter onto the baking sheets, and repeat until all the batter is used. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden. Make sure to keep an eye on them, as ovens can vary.
- Once they are golden brown, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes. Then pace on a cooling rack to fully cool.
- Meanwhile mix the icing sugar with cinnamon, then stir in the remaining lemon juice, maple syrup and add enough water until you get a thick glaze.
- Once the fritters are cooled, drizzle with the glaze and serve.
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17 comments
Alice Doherty
Hi Madeline,
Just wanted to ask is the flour in this recipe self-raising or non-self-raising?
Thanks,
Alice
Madeleine Olivia
Plain flour! I will change the recipe to specify!
Erin
These are so yummy and the glaze adds the perfect amount of sweetness. Will definitely make these again!
Madeleine Olivia
I am so happy you enjoyed this recipe Erin!
Kelly
We couldnt wait for them to cool down. They were like a wonderful gooey turnover. So delicious, but what’s even better…so simple! Thanks Maddy! I’ll be making these again soon
Paula
These are phenomenal, I couldn’t stop eating them!
Madeleine Olivia
Aren’t they addictive! Thank you Paula!
Penny
Amazing, these went down so well with all my family and will be making them on a regular basis because they are as easy as cheese scones but taste like they are soso healthy😉😀
Madeleine Olivia
Thank you Penny I’m so happy you enjoyed them!
Sarah
Wow these were so delicious and easy! Perfect fall treat!!
Madeleine Olivia
Thanks so much Sarah I am so pleased you enjoyed these
Jenny
These were so fun to make and so tasty. I left off the topping and had them with lidl soya yogurt.
Sara
Just made these and oh my, they are delicious! Did not have vegan butter, but coconut oil worked well as a substitute. Opted for the cinnamon sugar bath instead of the icing. Definitely will make these again!
Amanda P.
These Fritters are very yummy! I like a lot of cinnamon so I may try adding two tsp to batter next time to see how that is. This recipe isn’t complicated and the fritters are tasty. Win win!
If they aren’t all eaten right away, do we need to store them in the refrigerator?
Noah
So delicious and great to make when you’re sick of eating raw apples (especially if you have apple trees…) but don’t want to wait as long as with cake ☺️
Andrea
Can I use regular flour in this instead of self rising flour?
Madeleine Olivia
If you do you’ll need to add baking powder!