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I have a wish list.

Not a weird thing to have. Lots of people have wish lists. Lots of people have things they’d like to have, things they would want special others to buy them for special days.

My wish list, though, is full of kitchen gadgets. I don’t need no diamonds and fur jackets, just give me a kitchen torch. Nevermind that I will probably only use it once a year. It’s on the list.

A rice cooker. Nevermind that I don’t actually have room for a rice cooker, but I DO already have these pots and pans that are capable of doing exactly the same thing. It’s on the list.

I do have some more realistic kitchen gadgets on my list. Cookie scoops and a couple Silpat’s would be nice. But recently I got something that has been on my wish list for a while: a mandolin. Part of the reason the items on my kitchen wish list remain on my wish list for so long is because it causes me physical pain to pay full price for just about anything, especially if I can really live without it. But recently I was able to get a mandolin for next to nothing, and I have since put it to use. Making apple chips.

I’ve always wanted to make different fruit and veggie chips for my kids as a healthy snack, but who wants to painstakingly thinly slice them by hand? So when I finally got my mandolin, I set out to make apple chips and my kids devoured them. Like there was a pan sitting on the table cooling and in the time it took me to check Facebook (what?) he had eaten the ENTIRE pan. Since then, they’ve been snacking on apple chips like they’re candy and I’ve been throwing them in the world’s best granola that I eat in the world’s best homemade Greek yogurt all day long. I can’t stop. Really. Those recipes will be coming some time.

So, if you have a mandolin, make some apple chips. Or cut them thinly by hand. It can be done. If you don’t get them perfectly thin, no big deal. Just bake them a little longer. Either way, you will have a healthy and delicious snack. And like potato chips, you can’t eat just one. These are more of a whole-pan-at-once kind of thing.

-Heather

Cinnamon Apple Chips

Heather and Melissa

2013-02-28 08:28:15

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Ingredients

1-2 large apples (I used whatever combination I had on hand)

1/2-1 tsp ground cinnamon, to taste

1/2 tsp sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 225 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Combine cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl. Set aside.

2. Thinly slice apples with knife or using a mandolin. Get them as thin as you can. The thinner, the crispier. Remove core. (I have seen some people make apple chips leaving the core in and I think that would really be fine. I just use a piping tip to cut a hole out of the middle. Or if you are fancy, use an apple corer. I don't have one. It's on the list.)

3. Arrange apple slices on baking sheet. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture.

4. Bake apples for 1 hours, flipping after 30 minutes. If your apples are still moist, continue baking, checking every 10 minutes or so. They will crisp up some as they cool, so avoid overbaking.

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2 comments on “Cinnamon Apple Chips”

1. Anne @The Cooking Campaign on March 4, 2013 at 1:47 am said:

   These look so delicious. I got my boyfriend Gilbert a dehydrator for his birthday about a year ago, but the only thing we’ve attempted so far is beef jerky… I think this will be our next adventure.

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   • Heather and Melissa on March 4, 2013 at 7:40 pm said:

     Great idea! Probably just as simple with a dehydrator.

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