| BROWNBETTY | A baked apple dessert in the US (5,5) |
| CORED | Like a baked apple |
| PIE | Baked apple dessert sold at McDonald's |
| CRUMBLE | Apple -. dessert in box 6 (7) |
| FLAPJACK | Word for a baked bar of oats and syrup in the UK, but for a pancake in the US; an apple-puff; a powder compact; or, in Suffolk, a lapwing (8) |
| AUSTEN | Novelist whose authorial mentions of baked apples, Bath buns, picnics, rout-cakes, saddle of mutton, "whipt" syllabub and the like offer a glimpse into the food and dining habits of the Regency era in |
| PIEALALALALAND | Dessert in the style of a 2016 rom-com musical? |
| TART | Certain apple dessert ... or a descriptor for a certain apple |
| CLOVE | A bit of garlic may flavour the baked apple (5) |
| ARSA | Sought-after pahari dessert in the Uttarakhand region |
| LAPPEDUP | Enthusiastically consumed baked apple turnover for dessert |
| ICES | Frozen desserts in the police station |
| CAKEBATTERS | Birthday desserts in the making |
| PANDOWDY | Apple dessert, lacking in taste after roast (8) |
| CORERS | They're used in the prep of apple desserts |
| CINNAMON | Spice derived from the inner bark of a Sri Lankan tree, used for baked apples, carrot cakes, poached pears, masala chai and teacakes (8) |
| SPICE | Used to flavour chutneys, curries, poached pears, gingerbread, baked apples and many other dishes, any of various aromatic ingredients that were a catalyst for the Age of Discovery (5) |
| CRISP | Like baked apple chips |
| DAPPLES | Spots some baked apple squares (7) |
| MCCAFE | Maker of Baked Apple Pie K-Cups |
