Dehydrated Apple Recipes

These wonderful dehydrated apple recipes may inspire a delicious memory from your childhood. I love when I create a new raw recipe that brings back a tasty memory from my early days as a young one. For the first 14 years of my life I grew up under and climbed two apple trees tree’s. My mother made apple fruit leather and scrumptious apple pies. Those memories are a true inspiration for my raw food desserts.

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Although my memories of my apple tree days are missed when I came across this beautiful apple story I felt a deeper connection to it. Like the delicious dehydrated apple recipes I hope you enjoy it!

The Apple Orchard

When I was growing up I lived practically kiddy corner from a 50-tree apple orchard. The orchard really wasn’t tended and the neighborhood kids had free reign over the orchard, its trees, and, most importantly, the apples.

In the summer we would spend hours in the orchard playing games and eating apples. Although the trees weren’t really taken care of, they still produced some pretty good apples and it was nice to be able to pick off an apple from a tree and bury your teeth into that juicy, crunchy fruit. Birds would also enjoy the fallen fruit and it was funny seeing drunk birds who had imbibed on too many apples fermenting in the sun. Being boys, apples also made perfect missiles and there is nothing better than hitting someone with a rotten, soft apple that’s been baking in the sun for months. Firecrackers put into apples and tossed also make quite an effective weapon. In the fall we would have epic apple wars which would leave the entire neighborhood covered in smelly, smashed rotten apples. If it was warm enough, the apple stench would last for days.

That apple orchard really represented the carefree days of youth and after my brother died, I found myself walking through the apple orchard once again. I was 23 at the time and it had probably been 5 years since I was last in the orchard. I was inextricably drawn to the orchard, probably trying to recapture that youthful innocence that had been shattered that terrible day. I didn’t know what I would find there but it was a comforting place, even if it was for a moment.

Today the apple orchard is gone. A fence has gone up around it and houses sit where apple trees used to dislodge their fruit. I don’t know exactly when it happened and glad that I wasn’t around to see them go. Living in the city, my kids and their friends don’t have a place like an apple orchard to spend countless hours and I am not sure their mothers would let them if they did. Which is too bad. Kids need a place where they can go without adult supervision, where fruit, and all that it represents, is just there for the picking.

Sweet Apple Raisin Bread

2 cups of flax seeds ground
2 cups of whole flax seeds
4 cups of water blended well with 1 cup of raisins and one apple previously soaked for 2 hours or more (helpful not necessary)
Juice of 1 orange
1 handful of raisins
1 apple peeled
1 tablespoon of cinnamon

Place ground and whole flax seeds in a bowl, add the blended apple/raisin water to them. Soak for a few hours. In a food processor pulse chop the apple and handful or raisins along with the cinnamon and juiced orange, then add them to the flax mix.

Spread out about 2 cups of bread mix on to a dehydrator sheet lined with a Teff Flex sheet. Dehydrate at 105 degrees for 24 hours or so, making sure to turn over once the top is dry.

Cut into desired shapes, the will remain a bit soft. It should make around 4 12X12 trays.

Dehydrated Apple Recipes IDEAS:
Raw PBJ: Spread with raw almond butter and

2 cups of strawberries, peaches, raspberries or your favorite fruit
2 Tablespoons of Agave Nectar, Honey, dates blended with water until creamy, or Stevia

Blend 1 cup of berries in a Vita Mix blender with sweetener (adding more sweetener to taste). Add the second cup of berries and pulse chop. I found this recipe to taste like my moms homemade jam.

Raw Cashew Cream Cheese and Jam or chocolate.

Groatmeal Apple Spice Cookies

2 cups of oat groats ground finely
1 apple
12 dates
1/4 cup raisins
2-4 small scoops of stevia powder
1/2 teaspoon or more to taste of Pumpkin Pie Spice

In a food processor blend apple, stevia powder and Spice well add ground oat groats and raisins, blend again. On Teff flex dehydrator sheets dollop a desired amount of cookie shapes. Dry at 105 degrees until dry on the top. Take off sheets and dry for a complete 24 hours. Get create and design your own low-fat dehydrated apple recipes with no nuts or seeds.