How to Freeze Apples
Learn all the tips and tricks for freezing apples to stock your freezer with this delicious fruit. Learning how to freeze apples sets you up for amazing baked goods, smoothies, and desserts all year long.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- apples {firmer varietes work best}
- 6 oz pineapple juice {or 1/4 cup lemon juice, or citric acid, or Fruit Fresh}
Instructions
- Set up a workstation with peeler, cutting board, sharp knife, a bowl for the sliced apples, and a bowl for the peels and cores.
- Place a piece of parchment, waxed paper, or silpat on a rimmed baking sheet.
- Clean the apples, peel (optional), core, and slice the apples thinly or to your desired sized.apples
- Place the slices in a bowl and sprinkle with a bit of pineapple juice. Sprinkle a bit more anyime you add additional layers of apples.6 oz pineapple juice
- After you've finished cutting all the apples, gently pour them into a fine-mesh strainer to drain the pineapple juice.
- Arrange the slices on the baking sheet so that there is space around each slice, and the slices are not touching.
- Freeze for 3 hours, then transfer to freezer-safe storage.
- Store in the freezer for up to 12 months.
Notes
- Firmer apples like Fuji, Jazz, and Honeycrisp will freeze better over softer varieties of apples.
- You can layer parchment/waxed paper over the apples on the baking sheet to freeze a lot of apples at once. This works especially great if you have limited freezer space.
Nutrition
Serving: 1apple | Calories: 95kcal