Hasselback Fall Fruit Platter

Hasselback Fall Fruit Platter with baked hasselback apples and pears with homemade maple granola. A perfect seasonal autumn fruit pickable platter.

It’s officially fall! Okay, it’s been officially fall for about a week now but I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and August – October is (un)officially our summer time. June and July are cloudy and overcast but the sun is hot and shining in August, September and October. So when the rest of the country starts celebrating pumpkins spice lattes and all things autumn, I’m still in what feels like the thick of summer.

Did I really just start out this post talking about the weather? Yes, it looks like I did.

But now that it’s officially the end of September I can accept the end of summer and start thinking about all things fall. And that means pumpkins, apple picking, poached pears and fuzzy sweaters.

And fall fruit platters full of autumn flavors, like this Hasselback Fall Fruit Platter!

First things first, let’s get down to the question you probably have after reading the title of this recipe:

what does it mean it mean to “hasselback” food?

If you’re not familiar with the culinary term “hasselback”, it means to thinly slice a vegetable or fruit about 75% of the way to keep it’s full form but also expose thin slices of its interior. It’s a culinary technique most commonly used for preparing potatoes but also can be used for other vegetables and fruit.

The interwebs are rife with hasselback potatoes recipes and while I’m not denying I will create a hasselback potato recipe one day (meaning I will create a hasselback potato recipe one day) I wanted to show off fresh seasonal fall fruit in a new and appealing way.

In the spirit of my monthly seasonal platters I took to Instagram to ask you all what seasonal fruits food I should include in my September roundup and the answer was clear: September is all about apples and pears.

I’m a fan of pickable platters of any kind, but especially love a spread of sweet fruits and a bit of crunch. Enter: my Homemade Maple Walnut Granola (recipe coming soon!). Baked oats tossed in maple syrup, cinnamon and crushed walnuts make the perfect side item to warm baked fruit.

You know what would take this platter next level? A scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Seriously, just do it.

Love this Hasselback Fall Fruit Platter?

Try another of my favorite fruit desserts and platters!

• Summer Stone Fruit Cheese Platter
• Blood Orange, Kiwi & Mint Fruit Salad
• Grilled Pineapple with Mango Banana “Nice” Cream
• American Flag Fruit Platter: Healthy & Easy!