Going apple picking as a family during the fall season is such a fun tradition. But changes are, most of the time, you end up with more apples than you know what to do with.  After all the effort you put into picking just the right apples, don’t them to go to waste.

Here are 5 apple recipes to try this fall that will make use of all your delicious apples.

Apple Crostata with Caramel Sauce

This Apple Crostata With Caramel Sauce recipe from BettyCroker.com takes ingredients such as vanilla, flour, apples, butter, cinnamon and caramel topping, and mixes them together to create a delicious apple crostata with caramel sauce.

What You’ll Do:

In medium bowl mix the flour, sugar and salt. Cut in the butter using a pastry blender.  Add in a mixture of water and vanilla to the flour, a tablespoon at a time until flour is moistened. Shape dough into a ball, then flatten into a 5-inch circle and wrap in plastic wrap. Once this is done, refrigerate until firm.

When the dough is firm, use a rolling pin to roll pastry into a 12-inch round. Place it on a cookie sheet.  Add in apple mixture to the center of the dough and fold edges over the apple mixture. Sprinkle a sugar and cinnamon mixture on top of the apples and dough and bake for 32 minutes until golden brown.

Apple-Cranberry-Sage Chicken

The Apple-Cranberry-Sage mixture in this recipe from BettyCrocker.com gives your chicken a sweet taste that only fresh fruit can provide. It’s made with jelly, butter, red apples, celery, cranberries, sage, chicken and other essential ingredients.

What You’ll Do:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt jelly and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Make sure to stir. Add apple, celery and cranberries to saucepan and remove from heat.

Use Bisquick mix to coat chicken with. Cook chicken in a skillet for 6-8 minutes until coating is brown.  Once this is done place chicken in a baking dish with the apple-cranberry-sage mixture poured on top and bake for 40 to 45 minutes.

Cinnamon Apple Cake

A warm piece of cake on a cool autumn day makes the perfect comfort food.

This tasty Cinnamon Apple Cake recipe from MyRecipes.com features fresh apples, softened cream cheese, vanilla, eggs, flour and cinnamon.

Mix together ingredients to create the cake batter. Place batter in a pan and bake in a 350-degree oven for an hour and 15 minutes or until cake pulls away from the sides of the pan. Let cool.

Serve up a slice of cake with a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream for a sinfully sweet dessert.

Apple Almond Salad

A salad is the fastest, healthiest and easiest way to keep you full and give you vitamins and nutrients. Apples are great ingredients for salads, especially when mixed with nuts, in this case almonds.

The Apple Almond Salad recipe from TasteofHome.com is made with apples, almonds, cranberries, whipped topping and mayo. You then combine the apples, almonds and cranberries in a large bowl. Combine the whipped topping and mayo in a separate bowl. Then combine the apple mixture with the whipped topping mixture. This recipe is not only delicious, it’s also perfect to bring to any party.

Roast Pork Loin with Apples

We couldn’t finish talking about different apple recipes without including an elegant main dish, so here’s a mouth-watering Roast Pork Loin with Apples recipe courtesy of  FoodNetwork.com.

What You’ll Need:

• Vegetable oil
• Pork Loin
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 medium onion
• 2 carrots
• Celery
• Garlic
• Thyme and rosemary
• Unstalted butter
• Apples cut into 8 slices with the core removed.
• Apple cider vinegar
• Apple cider
• Whole grain mustard

What You’ll Do:

First, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Season pork loin with salt and pepper to taste. Sear the pork until golden brown in a large oven-safe skillet (around 2-3 minutes each side). Set pork aside.

Add the onion, carrot, celery, herbs, garlic and butter to the skillet to brown all vegetables (around 8 minutes). Once this is done, add in the apple and mix together. Push the mixture to the sides of the skillet to make space for the pork loin in the middle and transfer to the oven. Roast until meat is cooked.

Remove all ingredients from the skillet and put aside, return skillet to high heat and add apple cider vinegar scraping the bottom to loosen up the browned bits. Reduce and add the cider then reduce again. Whisk in the mustard away from the heat and add in two tablespoons of butter. Add in this sauce over the meat when served.

Keeping The Traditions Alive

Using any of these recipes will give you a great excuse to go apple picking and create delicious meals for your family and friends. What’s your favorite way to use apples?