Can we talk about something delightfully simple? How does Homemade Raspberry Applesauce sound? Simple fruity flavors combine to razzle dazzle your tastebuds with joy!
Sinfully sweet with nothing added but sun ripened raspberries and plump, juicy apples…
Fruitful!
 I first started MarlaMeridith.com I had never made homemade applesauce.
I know that sounds kind freaky, being that a cooking/lifestyle  blog has become my foull time job.
Homemade applesauce is easy, delicious and a great starting point for so many other recipes. I love to dip my Stuffed French Toast in it too.
These days you can usually find some saucy creation in our fridge and freezer. I love to experiment with all different fruity combos, herbal and spicy seasonings.
These infusions are aromatic and can be fun flavor twists. Try my Cherry Earl Grey Applesauce ~ a simple elegant recipe.
The great news is you really cannot go wrong.
The other great news is this is perfect for Project LunchBox too. Pack some homemade applesauce in your kids lunchbox, for camp or school. You can freeze it in little to-go containers. It then doubles as an ice pack and a healthy sweet treat.
By the time lunch or snack time rolls around your frozen applesauce becomes and icy or super chilled treat.
Do you ever make homemade applesauce? If so what do you like to add to yours?
Applesauce Recipe Links
- Applesauce Pancakes with Apple Cider Syrup The Hazel Bloom
- Cinnamon Stick Applesauce MarlaMeridith.com
- Classic Homemade Applesauce Pinch of Yum
- Oatmeal Blueberry Applesauce Muffins Honey, What’s Cooking?
- Strawberry Applesauce MarlaMeridith.com
Fresh raspberries are a total delicacy and this applesauce, well, you’d win lots of blue ribbons at the fair with it – and stunning!!! images (as usual)
Blue ribbons? For reals? OK then, I will need to find a county fair to bring my applesauce to. Thanks for your sweetness! xo
PRETTIEST.
APPLESAUCE.
EVER!
Awwww, thank you Heather!
Fresh raspberries are my favorite – gorgeous applesauce Marla!
A wonderful combination! Divine.
Cheers,
Rosa
I made a chai tea vanilla applesauce this past fall, it was amazing. Nothing, nothing compares to homemade applesauce.
I agree with you Katie ~ makes you never want to purchase the jars at the store. Soooooo easy, tasty, healthy and it makes your house smell amazing! Chai tea vanilla is one of my favorites as well!
I made some crockpot applesauce last night. I added apples, raspberries, sugar, water and cinnamon. Towards the end it started to get thicker really fast, Does the lemon juice help slow that or is it just for flavor?
Marla….this is GORGEOUS!!!
so pretty Marla! I am sure Caleb would love it too:)
We go through a ton of applesauce – both of my kids love it! And I know that they would love the addition of raspberries. Sounds delightful!
Raspberry apple sauce sounds and looks divine! The raspberries add such a beautiful pop of color and summer! Gorgeous photos Marla!
I’ve never made homemade applesauce either. This looks way too simple to not give it a try!
Stephanie, homemade applesauce is beyond simple and the best part is you can make giant quantities at one go. Refrigerate some and freeze the rest 🙂
That, my dear, is a GREAT idea! We love homemade applesauce. Why not add berries?
Sommer, berries rule my world. They need to be added to everything 😉
Yay! Another applesauce recipe! They’re my favorite part of your blog.
Thank you!! I love that you are a great fan of my applesauce recipes 🙂 I’ll come up with some more soon!
I love homemade applesauce! This raspberry variation is perfect!
oh yumminess! Love this Marla so creative
Thanks Alison!!!
Beautiful photos! This is such a great update on applesauce.
Beautiful color, amazing recipe! Thank you-))
DELICIOUS! Pinned 🙂
xo
I’ve never actually made homemade applesauce- bad right? haha. But I love my grandma’s homemade applesauce, store bought can’t beat it. I was just thinking today about how excited I am for raspberry picking coming up. They are my absolute favorite fruit. This looks so good!
WOW, SSSOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
What came first the raspberry applesauce or the beautiful napkins/prints? They look like a match made in heaven, as does the apple & raspberry sauce combo!
We might be visiting CA in October. Possibly around the 13th. Depends on the date of a possible post wedding reception for Jill & Neil.
Love to you and the family!
Andrea, that is so exciting!!!! October 13th would be a perfect time to visit. No travel plans scheduled for me at that time. Yet. Let’s chat so we can figure out a plan.
The Liberty print and raspberries all kinda happened together 😉 Glad you likey!!
Lovely and sounds really delicious. Loved your photographs. The fresh raspberries, feel like picking up one and put in my mouth haha. Thanks for sharing.
What a fabulous idea! Raspberries always tend to get moldy in my hands VERY quickly. I love this way to use them before that happens!
Love the colors jumping off the screen in the post – the raspberries against the Liberty print are so vibrant. Big applesauce fan and especially like the idea of using frozen in a lunch box for a mid day slushy!
that’s gorgeous, Marla. All of it is fab. Love the little jars!
A brilliant idea Marla – I love recipes like this that are so versatile!!!
That looks so delicious! Cannot wait to give it a try. A new family favorite!
Delicious and Healthy!!
What a sweet (no fat!) treat!
I love how easy this is!! Maybe I’ll make a batch this weekend. 🙂
What a great idea, Marla! And beautiful pictures too.
I am going to an apple farm next week and you can bet I will be making this applesauce:) Thanks! Such stunning photos, as usual.
Your food photos are wonderful- very simple and appetizing! TI makes your recipes look even better!
I just found your blog via this post, and your photography is STUNNING! As a portrait photographer turned blogger of all things, I want so badly to be a better food photographer–it’s tough to make food look good! Your book is currently in my amazon shopping cart, I’m hoping to learn some things to help me in this area! I’m also changing my families eating habits to eat better, so excited as I peruse all over your recipes, and I’ve added your wonderfully colorful pinterest to my reads as well. Anxious to “get to know you better” via these social mediums;)
What a terrific use for this summer’s raspberries. They spoil so quickly that I usually have to freeze them in order not to waste them. I would never have thought to combine them in an applesauce. The flavors would pair well together.
So simple and delicious! What a great way to celebrate summer!
What a tasty applesauce, Marla!
This is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous (and sounds so divine)! Loving the ideas for applesauce mix-ins (and dipping french toast into it – genius). I usually drive over the mountains in September or early October to retrieve a big, huge box of fresh apples from Eastern Washington, then I spend a day making a big ol’ batch of the stuff to can. Though the most fancy I get is throwing a few Asian pears into the mix.
I’m inspired to try a few new things this year. Thanks for that – and thanks also for the link to my applesauce pancakes!
Oh my goodness. This is amazing! I’ve made strawberry applesauce before but I love raspberries even more so I have to make this! I’ll give it a try tomorrow. 🙂 Love that it’s sweetener free and your pictures are absolutely amazing! So bright and cheery.
This is delicious! I used really tart apples and sour frozen raspberries, doubled it, or something like that, and had to add 1/4 cup honey. So little sweetener for 3 1/4 pounds of fruit. Sounds good to me! And it’s a beautiful color. WAY prettier than the strawberry applesauce I made a few months ago. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!
Awesome Erin…so happy to hear you had such great success! You are right, not much honey to make so much fruit sweet. Love that!
Such beautiful pictures! And I do like the combination of apples with raspberries. Nicely done!
My raspberries, unfortunately, had gone bad quickly, so I haven’t tried it with them. But, this recipe was forgiving! A friend that tried it said I could make a fortune selling it, that it was better than any applesauce he’d tried. I told him I couldn’t take credit! Hahaha Thanks for a wonderful treat that our family just loves.
can you use strawberries in place of the raspberries
Sure!! You can also do a search for my strawberry applesauce 🙂
I made this recipe a couple days ago and am blown away by how fantastic it tastes! I did have to add a little bit of sugar because I used apples that were given to me from a friend’s apple tree, and they’re a tart variety. But I wanted to find a way to combine the fresh raspberries I picked on Monday, and the apples that were given to us…what a great recipe to have tried! I decided to can my batch though…and I HWB’d in pint jars for 20 minutes. Now we have some to enjoy through the winter!
Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!
This was amazing! I never liked store bought applesauce, but this is much much better than that crap. I put a few extra raspberries in it, along with a pinch of cinnamon and some maple syrup. Thanks for the easy recipe!