Old Fashioned Apple Crisp
This old fashioned Apple Crisp recipe comes from my Grandmother’s vintage recipe collection. It’s a deliciously light and healthy dessert featuring warm, baked spiced apples with sweet crumb topping of crispy oats, apple pie spice and brown sugar. Simple ingredients and ready in about 45-minutes. Your house will smell heavenly!
Easy Fall dessert your friends and family will love and your house will smell amazing!
What type apples are best for Apple Crisp?
The best apples for baking are Honeycrisp, Gala, Fuji or Granny Smith.
Ingredients
Other than apples, you’ll need oats, brown sugar, flour, butter, honey, apple pie spice and lemon.
You can use straight cinnamon instead of apple pie spice, but I like the Apple Pie spice because it contains cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice–three key spices to any apple dish!
Do not forget to get a lemon! Lemon juice will keep the cup apples from turning brown.
Here’s how to make it
This easy apple dessert has two parts: the filling and the oat topping. You’ll definitely want to invest in an apple coring tool and a good, sharp paring knife.
- Peel and core apples;
- Cut apples and drizzle lemon juice over them.
- Make the crispy oat topping.
- Place apples in baking dish; sprinkle oat topping over apples and bake
Yield
This makes about 8 cups of Apple Crisp. If you serve in 1/2 cup portions, you’ll get about 16 servings from this recipe.
Making it for a crowd?
If you’re making this for a large group (say 20 or more), double the recipe and bake it in a big aluminum pan.
Storage and reheating
Store leftover apple crisp in an airtight container for up to 3-days. To reheat, place a scoop of this delicious dessert in microwavable bowl for 1-2 minutes, or reheat in a 300ºF oven (cover dish with foil) until it is warm throughout.
If you want smaller portions of this easy Apple Crisp, make them in small ramekins! It’s a perfect “little” dessert! And don’t forget to put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!
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Apple Crisp
Equipment
- Apple corer
Ingredients
Apple Crisp Filling
- 8 large Honeycrisp apples cored, peeled and cubed
- ¼ cup lemon juice (about 2 large lemons)
- 1 tablespoon flour , all-purpose
- ½ cup light brown sugar , packed
- 1 teaspoon Apple Pie spice
- ½ teaspoon salt
Apple Crisp Topping
- 1 cup oats , regular oats, not fast-cooking
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup light brown sugar , packed
- 1 tablespoon Apple Pie spice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF
- Core and peel apples; cut into cubes; place in large bowl8 large Honeycrisp apples
- Pour lemon juice over apples; toss apples in lemon juice to coat evenly; cover and set aside¼ cup lemon juice
- In a medium bowl, combine the following and to apples coating them well; transfer mixture to a buttered baking dish; set aside1 tablespoon flour, ½ cup light brown sugar, 1 teaspoon Apple Pie spice, ½ teaspoon salt
- Combine the following ingredients into a large bowl and sprinkle over the apples; drizzle the oat topping with melted butter and bake on middle rack, uncovered for 45 minutes1 cup oats, 1 cup all-purpose flour, ⅔ cup light brown sugar, 1 tablespoon Apple Pie spice, ½ teaspoon salt, ¾ cup butter, melted
Apple Crisp is one of my favorite desserts. It doesn’t get any better than warm apples with a big scoop of ice cream!
Thank you, Debi! No it doesn’t!:)