Renee’s Path Less Traveled Apple Fritters are made completely from scratch and fried the old fashioned way, with crisp, craggy edges and a soft yeasted center loaded with real apples. But the goal wasn’t simply to make another apple fritter. Most apple fritter recipes take the shortest route from apple to fryer. Renee wanted to see what would happen if she went the other way. So the apples are browned. The butter gets an extra step. Fresh pressed apple cider is dramatically reduced. And that concentrated cider finds its way into the finished apple cider glaze.