If you’re asking me, Apple Fritters are one of the very best things about fall. Every year my family goes apple picking, and on that trip I never fail to get a fresh, warm Apple Fritter from the farm stand. I might look forward to the fritter more than the apple picking, but can you blame me? Fresh apple flavor with that doughy doughnut bite and delicately crisp sugary glaze… there’s a lot to love. Except that maybe they aren’t right within reach in your home kitchen. But with this recipe, they can be! And you only need your oven and a few simple ingredients to make it happen.

I’m not going to lie to you and say that these perfectly approximate the fresh farm stand Apple Fritter experience. I don’t think there’s anything that can quite replicate that, but these make a pretty great stand-in and they come right out of your own kitchen so you can have them anytime the mood strikes. Thanks to a few baking shortcuts, it’s incredibly easy to make that happen!

Instead of having to deal with a yeast dough, here you rely on a tube of refrigerated biscuits. You cut them up, mix them with cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg, and chopped apples and press them into mounds to bake. It gets pretty darn close to the texture of an Apple Fritter with barely any work for you.

Of course, an Apple Fritter wouldn’t be an Apple Fritter without the glaze but you can rest assured that that’s included here. You just have to stir together some powdered sugar, water, and vanilla extract and drizzle it over the warm fritters. Job done! And then you get to dig in.