3 Easy Apple Snacks

These 3 Easy Apple Snacks are a healthy apple snack option that is easy to make and popular with kids. You’ll find 3 classic combos below from nut butter and berries to ham and cheese and chicken salad.

I’ve heard these apple slice snacks called ‘apple doughnuts’, but in my opinion, that’s taking things a little too far. Normally I have no problem with healthier versions, but just because these are doughnut-shaped, doesn’t mean I can bring myself to use the term doughnut!

So I went with apple slice snacks, after all that’s what they actually are. But in any case, no matter what you call them, they’re delicious. The 3 ‘recipes’ I have for you today are so easy to make, they can barely be called recipes. I like to keep my snacks super simple, so no extra fancy stuff here!

The first one pictured here is a sweeter combo with the nut butter of your choice, along with granola. I like to keep my Maple Cinnamon Granola on hand in the pantry as often as possible. That way we’re always just a couple minutes away from a snack. To jazz things up a bit, I added a little crushed freeze dried berries over the top.

Freeze-dried berries can be expensive, but a little goes a long way. And we love adding them here and there to different recipes. Raspberries are my favorite on these apple slice snacks because they pack the biggest punch of flavor.

The next apple slice snack is simply sliced apples topped with chicken salad. Obviously, this works best if you already have something similar already made. Nobody wants to make a chicken salad just for apple slice snacks unless maybe you’re throwing a party/shower.

But this one works well for us because I often make some type of chicken salad as part of our weekly meal prep. It’s great for quick and easy lunches on a bed of greens or for these apple snacks.

If you don’t have chicken salad just hanging out in your refrigerator, then this next one is for you! This apple snack is the easiest being just meat and cheese. Our favorite combo so far is ham, aged cheddar, and a thin smear of Dijon mustard. But you can use any combination of meat and cheese you like and have on hand.

Let’s talk about how to make these 3 Easy Apple Snacks

If you have an apple corer, that would be perfect here. I don’t have one myself, but I do have a set of circular rings I use for all sorts of things, and they also work as cookie cutters too! I bought my set at a restaurant supply store, and the smallest ring is about 1/4″ across spanning all the way up to the biggest at around 5″.

Restaurant supply stores are usually open to the public, (or they are here anyways) and you can find all sorts of interesting things there. Actually that might be a fun thing to do a post on sometime, so let me know if you’re interested!

By the time I finished recipe testing and photographing these, I had a ton of leftovers, (naturally!). So I definitely know that while these might be a snack, but you can easily make a meal out of them as well! In fact, the chicken salad and ham and cheese made up my lunches for days.

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