All About Apples
Crisp, sweet apples. Hard to beat as a snack and even more appealing baked in a pie. If you’re looking for a little apple inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. Spice up your apple cookery with Frontier or Simply Organic spices and you’ll be the apple of everyone’s eye.
How to Spice Apples
Not sure which spices pair well with old Granny Smith? In need of some fresh flavors to add your tried-and-true pice recipe? Here are our suggestions below.
Anise - A sweet but mild licorice flavor good for apple pies, cookies, and coffee cakes
Apple Pie and Dessert Spice - Frontier's own special blend of cinnamon, fenugreek, lemon peel, ginger, cloves and nutmeg, for use in apple pies, crisps, cobblers, and cakes.
Basil - Apple stuffing
Caraway - Apple pies, cookies, cakes, and breads
Cardamom - Apple salads, baked apple dishes, cakes, and custards
Cider Spices - Frontier makes spiced cider easy with three delicious Cider Mate blends: Original Spice (cinnamon, allspice, orange and lemon peel, nutmeg, star anise, cloves, fenugreek and ginger); Citrus Spice (cinnamon, orange peel, allspice, cloves, and hibiscus); and certified organic Mulling Spice (cinnamon, orange peel, allspice, cloves, and ginger).
In addition to Cider Mate, try our Mulling Spice and a new organic Mulling Spice from Simply Organic.
Quick Links
» Spices & Seasonings
» Apple Recipes
» Which Apples Should I Use
» Apple Equivalents
» How to Store Apples
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Cinnamon - Baked apples, cold or hot apple salads, applesauce, fruit compotes, cakes, quick breads, and cider
Cinnamon Sticks - Hot apple cider and mulled cider
Cloves - Applesauce, cakes, quick breads, stewed apples, and cider
Coriander - Apple pies and quick breads
Dill - Apple breads, stuffing, and soups
Ginger - Apple breads, cakes, cookies, fruit salad dressings, fruit compotes, and cider
Lemon peel - Apple-fruit salads, and cider
Marjoram - Stewed apples
Mulling Spice - (See Cider Spices above.)
Nutmeg - Apple pies, cakes, cookies, and quick breads
Orange peel - Apple-fruit salads and cider
Poppy seeds - Apple breads, fruit salads, cakes, and pastries. Heat or crush the poppy seeds before adding to the recipe to release their full nutty flavor.
Rosemary - Apple-chicken or apple-pork recipes, and apple stuffings
Sesame seeds - Apple breads, rolls, or cakes. Heat or toast the seeds before adding to the recipe to release their full flavor.
Vanilla extract - Apple salads, preserves, compotes, pies, cookies, and cakes. Or, experiment with other extracts and flavorings available from Frontier and Simply Organic to bring new flavors to your fruit salads and baked goods.
