Apple Cinnamon Chips
Use leftover apples to make this simple snack or as a lunchbox filler. This is a great homemade alternative to salty potato chips. Serving size is one cookie tray, or one apple.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup icing sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 apples, large
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 110 degrees celsius.
- In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon.
- Remove the apple cores while leaving the apples whole.
- Using a serrated knife or mandolin slicer, thinly slice the apples from top to bottom. I sliced the apples into 1.5mm thickness using a mandolin slicer.
- Arrange the slices in a single layer on baking paper lined baking trays and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar.
- Bake the apple slices for 30 minutes, turning after 15 minutes in the oven.
- Remove and transfer to racks to cool. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
- The key is to get an even thickness to your apple slices which means even drying out in the oven. That's where a mandolin comes in handy. I'm not comfortable to try and slice my apples that thin by hand... but you might be!
- If you use a mandolin to slice the apples, two large apples will fill two baking trays.
- If your apples end up thicker than 1.5mm, extend the time they are in the oven. Judge whether they are ready by taking one slice out. If the slice crisps up when it cools, then it's ready to come out of the oven. Just be prepared that your thicker slices "may" end up in the oven for up to 1.5-2 hours!
- I used an icing sugar duster which I found gave a more even sprinkle of the cinnamon & icing sugar mixture. Alternatively put the mixture into a sieve to sprinkle.