Recipe · fall

Apple Crisp

Apple pie the easier way. A quick, wonderful dessert that's hard to mess up and perfect when you have a lot of apples on hand.

Meal: snackMain: apple

Ingredients

Filling ingredients

6-10 nice sized fresh apples, peeled and chopped coarsely
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp lemon juice

Topping ingredients

1/2 cup cold butter, diced into small cubes
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup old fashioned oats
3/4 cup unbleached flour
1 tsp cinnamon

Steps

Preheat oven to 350 F and grease an 8x8 baking dish.

1In the prepared baking dish, add the apples, sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice. Stir to combine.
2In a mixing bowl, stir together the topping ingredients except the butter. When all is thoroughly mixed, add the butter and, using a pastry cutter or two forks, or your hands, cut the butter into the dry ingredients. When the butter is consistently about the size of peas, you're done. Spread evenly on top of the apples and gently pat it down.
3Bake about 45 minutes, until golden brown and bubbly. Remove from the oven and cool slightly. Plan to serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Hint: In our house, we make about 4 x this amount and refrigerate the remainder in a wide mouth jar. Dan likes to use it during the week for a lotta things.