Crispy Apple Chips
Crispy apple chips were originally meant for garnishing desserts but it also makes for an addictive light snack. Paper-thin apple slices are soaked in a simple syrup and dried in a very low oven to keep the fresh apple flavor intact.
Granny Smith apples are perfect for this recipe — drying intensifies its tartness, but the syrup keeps the sweetness and sourness balanced.
recipe adapted from Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Baking
Crispy Apple Chips
1 cup (7 ounces / 200 grams) granulated sugar
3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons (7 ounces / 200 grams) water
2 green apples, preferably a tart and crisp varietal such as Granny Smith
Equipment:
- A small saucepan
- A melon baller
- A mandolin slicer
- 1 to 2 sheet pans lined with silicone mats or parchment
Notes:
- Peeling the apples is optional, but unpeeled apple slices may curl up as it dries in the oven.
- The suggested drying times below are for paper-thin semitransparent slices.
Instructions:
- In a small saucepan, heat the water and sugar over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Cut the apples in half crosswise and core with a melon baller. Using a mandolin slicer, slice the apples crosswise into paper-thin rounds.
- Drop the sliced apples in the syrup immediately and heat gently for about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the sliced apples cool in the syrup, at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 175ºF / 80ºC.
- Carefully remove the apple slices from the syrup and place gently on sheet pans lined with silicone mats or parchment. Dry in the 175ºF / 80ºC oven until crisp, at least 2 hours.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
wow i like these . i ll surely try them. Thanks for posting it
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 am
That looks like a wonderful holiday treat!
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 am
How nice ! I can’t wait to nibble on them |
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 am
They look great! I would probably eat them all in one sitting.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
So cool! I like banana chips, but apple chips would be a nice change of pace. Now I just need to find a decent mandolin slicer.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
They’re such a healthy snack
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am
I make these every fall to preserve the apples in my little orchard. First I core them, then I use a food processor (with a slicing disk) to perfectly slice the apples. I then use a food dehydrator to dry and preserve them. Due to the large volume of apples I have, I find this method works nicely.
A very yummy, a healthful, treat!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Your slices look so thin and perfect. What mandolin do you have? I had one but got rid of it because it was a piece of junk.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
That sounds like quite a treat.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Have to try these out, they must be delicious!
Love the picture with the sliced apple.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Lovely,pass it over delcious.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’m scared that if I buy a mandolin I’ll chop my hand off.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 am
This is so my kind of snack. I never thought of using my mandolin to make these – doh!!!
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Ahh, thank you! I’ve been trying to make these for a while—your recipe is so much better than the ones I found so far.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
a mandolin has just been added to my christmas list, pretty much solely for this purpose.
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Oooh yummy! They sell these in the shops in Italy… I havnt tried them yet…!
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
What neat photos. I would serve these as one of the accompaniments on a cheese platter.
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
This is a good reason to take my mandoline out from the back of the cupboards.
Like the mandoline shot: watch your fingers
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
wow, lovely and healthy. The shots are great!
November 24th, 2008 at 2:08 am
I never knew you could make crisps with apples. I just learnt something new.:)
I think your “sliced apple” picture is very good.
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November 24th, 2008 at 9:59 am
So thin! And so healthily delicious!!
November 24th, 2008 at 10:39 am
The slicer sure is handy for such thin slicing ,love the way you presented it:)
November 24th, 2008 at 10:56 am
These look so good! On Saturday I was watching the food network and Giada was making beer battered apple and onion rings – but these sound a lot better – and healthier, even!
November 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
These look wonderful, Jude! And in those chilly evenings, when the appetite is rising, I’m really looking for a relatively low-fat snack.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hah! I used to decorate my Christmas wreath with dried slices of apples and oranges, cinnamon sticks and other flavors of the holidays.. I never thought of eating the dried apples! LOL… this would make for a good treat, indeed!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Once again, very pretty.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Perfect slices and beautiful photos.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Thanks for posting this and I must try this one week-end. And you don’t even need to get a bag from the supermarket any more.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
They looked perfectly sliced and so beautiful … makes the perfect snack that’s also so healthy =)
November 24th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Hooray — another excuse to get out my mandoline!
November 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I use my melon baller for the same thing, and I always wonder if people actually own apple corers anymore.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Jude, what a stunning photo of that freshly sliced apple
November 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Wow, now why don’t I have a mandoline? I can think of so many uses for apple chips.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I would love to dust these with some cinnamon sugar.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Questa ricetta mi serviva prorio adoro le mele!!!!
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November 26th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Your photos are stunning! What a great chip!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Wow, delicious and super healthy… can this be true???
December 16th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
what other apples are great for this recipe….
the granny smiths taste delicious….
but took a little longer than 2 hours….my slices were not paper thin but pretty thin.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:22 am
Can you do this with red apples as well?
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