Pear and Apple Chips
We love eating fruit chips from the grocery, but they’re really expensive and you get such a small amount in each bag that I was determined to find a better way to enjoy this awesome snack. I’ve been buying gorgeous pears and apples at the farmer’s market lately, and I decided to try my hand at homemade fruit chips. While I cut away, Kenya had a blast laying them out on the baking sheets before we popped them in the oven. I had to make sure I sliced fast because for every piece Kenya laid out, at least two made their way into his mouth!
If I were you, I would pull out all your cookie sheets and layer them up with lots of fruit because when your family tastes this recipe, they’re going to go fast.
Pear & Apple Chips
2 Pears
2 Apples
1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
2. Using a mandoline, thinly slice the apple and pears into “chips” ( I love my hand mandoline, but you can also cut them with a knife into thin slices if you don’t have one).
3. Place the slices on a Silpat or parchment lined baking sheet making sure not to over lap the pieces.
4. Bake for 1 hour, turning the “chips” halfway through (if you live in a humid climate, they may take a bit longer).
5. Cool and serve.
*You can place several cookie sheets in the oven at the same time if you want to make a large amount.
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This is awesome! I’m doing this first thing in the morning and I think my 2 year old will be able to do most of it, which she will LOVE! Great (simple!) idea! (There are far too many exclamation points in this post, but that just proves how good it is!!!)
These sound great! I spent a large portion of yesterday making huge quantities of baked sweet potato and butternut squash chips for this week’s lunch boxes, so I’m in the chip mood. Have you tried adding cinnamon and nutmeg to them? I wonder if it would be better to do that before baking, or to sprinkle and toss while they’re warm from the oven?
Adding cinnamon and nutmeg is great idea! Just sprinkle some on top before you put it in the oven.
Do you have a link to the recipe you used? I tried to make them and they’re soggy or burnt… no crispy
Hi! Love this! Do you store yours (if there are any left) in a ziplock bag? Thank you.
Yes I do!
I made these yesterday after watching the video and my 1 and 3 year old loved them. I think I still managed to eat more than they did! They were delicious!
what to do if there is no parchment paper handy?
You can use a silpat or you can try foil.
This may sound silly, but how to you slice the friut with regards to the core? Do you just cut right through it and bake it all or somehow remove the core?
When I am slicing the apple with the mandolin, I stop once I get to the core. You can also use an apple corer. http://astore.amazon.com/weelicious-20/detail/B00004OCKT
My 20 month old helped make apple chips as well. I sprinkled them with Splenda and cinnamon before baking and they have turned out delicious! I didn’t have luck with the bananas, I couldn’t slice them lengthwise without them breaking up. I tried doing them in slices but they didn’t turn out well. Any suggestions? I don’t have a mandolin, but I may get one soon.
Thats a bummer! Have you had a chance to watch the video on the banana leather? Were the bananas really soft? And how long did you leave them in the oven? Most oven are different, you may have had to leave them longer.
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I live on the gulf coast. We are usually at about 90% or greater humidity year round. I tried these. A bit longer doesn’t begin to describe the 4 hours it took to get them sort of dry. I have some suggestions for high humidity areas. First skip the parchment and/or the silpat. Lay your slices on your cooling rack, and use it in place of the cookie sheet in your oven. It takes way less time if you can have the dry heat circulate all the way around the slices!
I tried making these with my little sister and they stuck to the parchment paper, we used a mandoline slicer too. Maybe we cut them TOO thin??
Its not the thinness that was the problem. What was your oven set at? I didn’t have any problems with using parchment – do you have a silpat?
Hi!
I just tried making these, but mine crumbled apart…they were only in the oven for about 40 minutes. I think that I sliced them too thin. About how thin do you cut your slices using your mandolin?
Thanks!
Fantastic…almost sliced my finger off as it was the first time I used a mandoline, but once I got the hang of it…very fun and delicous for the whole family!
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Yum! I tried this tonight with one apple after my daughter went to sleep. Let’s just say, there aren’t any left for her to taste tomorrow! Thanks for the great idea!
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