These warm and cozy Apple Cinnamon Drop Biscuits with Apple Cider Glaze are the perfect snack or sweet treat with coffee, and they will make your home smell incredible! Buttery, tender, and full of sweet chunks of sautéed apples throughout. The best part is, you probably already have everything on hand right now. They're sweet enough to eat on their own, but drizzle them with a simple apple cider glaze, and they taste just like the coziest apple fritter - but way easier to make at home! 🤤 Perfect for a cozy weekend treat, brunch, or honestly just because it's Tuesday and you deserve something delicious.

Beautiful shot of biscuits on a baking sheet with white parchment paper, surrounded by whole spices, fresh apples, and a drizzle of glaze going onto the biscuits.

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The Coziest Apple Cinnamon Biscuits - No Mixer Required! 🍎

Biscuits are one of Chamere's favorite foods, and he loves it when I make something a little sweet. Apple fritters have always been my favorite donut - and after I introduced him to them years ago, they became his favorite too. So this recipe is the result of craving both, and wanting something fast!

The secret is sautéing the apples first. Raw apples release too much moisture as they bake, which can make the dough gummy - but a quick cook in butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon takes care of that. It cooks off the extra liquid and concentrates all that apple flavor, so you get tender, slightly caramelized pieces in every bite instead of soggy spots. Plus, your kitchen will smell amazing before you even turn the oven on! 🤤

I love making a big batch and keeping them prepped in the freezer so we can have warm, fresh apple biscuits baked up anytime the craving strikes. They're pretty quick to mix up, too, since they're made with simple ingredients I keep on hand all the time!

🍎 Ingredients for Cinnamon Apple Drop Biscuits

Just a handful of pantry staples and fresh Michigan apples - and you're on the way to a seriously cozy biscuit!

Ingredients to make apple drop biscuits laid out of a table and labeled to denote each ingredient.

How to Make Apple Drop Biscuits with Cider Glaze ✨

These come together quickly - no rolling, no cutting, no fussy steps. Just stir, scoop, and bake!

🧈 First things first: Cut your cold butter into tablespoon-sized pieces and pop them in the fridge while you prep everything else. You want the butter cold when it hits the flour!

Apple chunks, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a skillet with a wooden spoon.

Step 1: Melt butter in a skillet over medium-low heat. Add the diced apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt.

Cooked apple cinnamon chunks in a enameled skillet surrounded by fresh apples, candles, and whole spices.

Cook for 6-7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the apples are softened and most of the liquid has cooked off. They should look a little jammy but still hold their shape.

🍎 Best apples for baking: We used Michigan Honeycrisp, but Cripps Pink and EverCrisp are also great choices - they're sweet, hold their shape, and won't turn to mush. Find your favorite Michigan Apple variety here!

💡 Leave the skins on! They soften beautifully during the sauté and add a little color. One less step for you!

Apples cooling on a tray lined with parchment paper with a mixing bowl underneath.

Step 2: Transfer the apples to a plate and let them cool completely, then pop them in the fridge for a few minutes until they're cold.

💡 Don't skip chilling the cooked apples! Warm apples will melt your butter when combined with the butter.

Flour, sugar, spices, salt, and leavening agents in a mixing bowl surrounded by apples, candles, and linens.

Step 3: Add the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, apple pie spice, and cinnamon to a large bowl.

Whisked flour and dry ingredients in a bowl surrounded by apples, candles, and linens for a warm cozy feel.

Whisk together until well incorporated.

⚖️ We highly recommend using a kitchen scale for baking! Flour is the biggest culprit - depending on how you scoop it, a cup of flour can vary by as much as 30%. Too much flour = dense, dry biscuits. A scale takes the guesswork out and gives you consistent results every time. Our recipe card includes weight measurements for all the ingredients!

🍎 No apple pie spice? Just swap in more cinnamon - they'll still be delicious! Or better yet, you can make our homemade apple pie spice. It's just delicious with notes of ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and freshly ground cardamom.

Butter pieces in a bowl of flour surrounded by apples, candles, and small bowls of different sizes.

Step 4: Add the cold butter pieces to the flour mixture. Toss with flour.

Hand pressing pieces of butter into thin sheets above a bowl with a flour mixture to make biscuits.

Add the cold butter pieces to the flour mixture. Use a pastry cutter or your fingers to work the butter in, pressing the pieces into thin, flat sheets. Some bigger, some smaller - that's okay!

🧈Can I use melted butter? You can! The biscuits will be slightly denser, but still delicious. For the fluffiest texture, stick with cold butter worked into the flour - those little butter pockets create lift as they bake!

Apple pieces in a large bowl with flour, butter, and other ingredients surrounding.

Step 5: Add the cooled sautéed apples and toss gently to coat them in the flour mixture.

Dough beginning to form with butter pieces and apple chunks covered in flour surrounded by fresh apples, spices, candles, and more.

Mix until everything is just combined.

Buttermilk added to a bowl with flour, apples, and butter.

Step 6: Pour in the cold buttermilk.

🥛 Dough too wet? The sautéed apples add a little extra moisture, so your dough might be stickier than a typical biscuit dough - that's okay! If it's really wet, add a tablespoon or two more flour.

Rubber spatula in a bowl folding buttermilk and dry ingredients together to make biscuits.

Step 7: Stir until the dough just comes together.

Warm spiced apple biscuit dough in a mixing bowl coming together.

It should look shaggy and a little rough - don't overmix! If it's too dry and won't hold together, add another tablespoon of buttermilk, but go slow.

💡 Dough feeling warm? If butter begins to melt or look greasy, just pop the bowl of dough in the fridge or freezer for 5-10 minutes to chill. Cold butter = fluffy biscuits!

Hand holding a cookie scoop full of dough from a bowl.

Step 8: Scoop the dough using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop or two spoons. This recipe makes about 20 little apple biscuits.

💡 Can I laminate these for flaky layers? We tried it, and sure, you can, but we found it wasn't really worth the effort here! The apple chunks interrupt the layers anyway, and the texture ends up more like a soft, tender biscuit either way. Save yourself the extra steps and just scoop! If you're really determined, check out the step-by-step on how to laminate biscuits in our cornbread biscuit recipe.

Apple biscuits on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Step 9: Place the shaped biscuits onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Pop the baking sheet in the freezer for 15 minutes while the oven preheats to 400°F. This chills the butter so you get maximum lift in the oven - and ensures it won't leak out as they bake.

❄️ Make-ahead tip: You can freeze the unbaked biscuits solid, then transfer to a freezer bag for up to 3 months. Bake straight from frozen - just add a few extra minutes to the bake time!

Baked apple biscuits on a baking sheet with cinnamon sticks, apples and twinkling tealight in the background.

Step 10: Bake on the middle rack until golden brown and completely set, about 11-13 minutes.

📋 Batch baking: This recipe makes about 20 biscuits - you'll need two baking sheets. Space them about 1½ inches apart, and bake one sheet at a time on the middle rack for the best results. Keep the second sheet in the freezer until the first batch is done!

🌡️ Use a thermometer to be sure they're done! The cinnamon and apple pie spice make these biscuits darker than usual, so color isn't the best indicator. Check the internal temp to make sure they're baked through. They're done when they reach an internal temperature of 200-205°F!

Ingredients to make apple cider glaze laid out on a table surrounded by candles, and apples.

While the biscuits cool, make a super simple glaze.

Whisking together apple cider, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla bean paste in a bowl surrounded by apples and candles.

Step 11: Add powdered sugar, apple cider, kosher salt, and vanilla extract to a bowl. Whisk together until smooth and pourable.

💡 For the glaze: Start with 2 tablespoons of cider and whisk until smooth - add more a little at a time until it drips slowly off the spoon. Too thin? Add more powdered sugar. Too thick? Splash more cider! No vanilla bean paste? Extract works too, we love the little vanilla bean flecks in the glaze!

Baked apple drop biscuits on a parchment lined baking sheet drizzled with glaze with apples and candles surrounding.

Step 12: Drizzle the glaze over the cooled biscuits.

🍎 Apple fritter vibes! This simple cider glaze takes these over the top - sweet, tangy, and SO reminiscent of your favorite bakery apple fritter. 🤤

Serve warm!

Flatlay photo of a green bowl filled witb a white linen, and a bunch of apple cinnamon drop biscuits.

What to Serve with Apple Cinnamon Drop Biscuits 🍎

These are perfect on their own with just the glaze! But if you want to skip the glaze and go a different direction, try them warm with a smear of whipped maple butter or apple butter on top.

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