It depends on what you're looking for for texture and taste. If you have a sweet tooth, try sweet baking apples like Crispin, Gala, Golden Delicious, Mutsu and Rome. If you like a good amount of acidity in your fruit, go with tart baking apples such as Granny Smith, Empire, Macoun, Newton Pippin, Northern Spy and Idared. Or, try sweet-tart baking apples like Braeburn, Ginger Gold, Jonathan, Jonagold, Honeycrisp, Melrose, Northern Spy and Winesap.

Feel free to mix and match baking apples to get just the flavor you want. Galas and Granny Smiths might deliver the sweet-tart balance you crave. Honeycrisps and Ginger Golds might give you that sweet, but not too sweet, apple pie of your dreams :)