This basic apple crisp recipe could be prepped in simply 10 minutes and prepared inside an hour! My recipe makes use of melted butter for an extremely buttery taste with out ever touching a pastry cutter. Recipe features a how-to video!
My Favourite Apple Crisp
Image it now…heat, sugared and spiced juicy apples baked to tender perfection beneath a beneficiant blanket of buttery crisp…are you prepared for fall but? Make a batch of this apple crisp, and also you’ll be there very quickly!
My recipe is:
- Really easy to make (simply 10 minutes to prep!) WITHOUT the necessity for a pastry cutter.
- An awesome technique to deplete apples if you happen to are typically a bit overzealous along with your apple choosing like I’m (apple butter and apple fritters are different choices too!).
- Excellent for making upfront or freezing; test the FAQ part beneath for particulars.
- Completely sinful with scoop of vanilla ice cream–in my home, that is non-negotiable!
- Traditional and comforting. It’s simply so quintessentially *fall* 🍂
Apple crisp is one among my favourite fall recipes, and with fall formally arriving this month, I assumed it was about time I re-share this recipe with you!
What You Want
You may make this recipe with a number of pantry staples (butter, sugar, flour, and so forth.). Truthfully, isn’t that a part of what makes consolation meals so good?
- Apples. Much like my apple pie recipe, I like to recommend utilizing granny smith apples for this recipe. A agency, tart apple works properly right here, however it’s also possible to use a semisweet apple, like gala or honeycrisp (these are additionally nice for making apple dumplings, so when you have any leftovers, attempt that recipe!). I sometimes want about 7 small apples to get 2 cups.
- Oats. We’ll be utilizing quaint rolled oats at present, similar to when making my oatmeal raisin cookies. Truthfully, I even assume the crisp a part of this recipe even tastes like a crumbled oatmeal cookie!
- Brown sugar. I add gentle brown sugar to each the apples and the crisp elements of this recipe. Darkish brown sugar might work too, however the taste will probably be richer.
- Cinnamon. Apples and cinnamon go collectively like peanut butter and jelly–we merely can’t make apple crisp with out it! I add cinnamon to the apples and the crisp for additional taste.
- Melted butter. In the event you’ve made my streusel recipe, you understand how a lot of a recreation changer melted butter could be when making a crumb topping! Right this moment’s crisp isn’t any totally different. Not solely is that this technique a lot simpler than utilizing chilly butter and a pastry cutter, nevertheless it additionally yields a extra buttery taste!
SAM’S TIP: This recipe was designed for a tart or candy/tart apple, so if you happen to use sweeter apples, take into account that this can end in a sweeter crisp.
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!
The way to Make Apple Crisp
- Toss the sliced apples with brown sugar, lemon juice, flour, cinnamon, and salt. Set this apart when you put together your crisp. It will begin to break down the apples a bit and make them juicy, very like macerating strawberries.
- Whisk collectively the melted butter and vanilla extract, then set this apart.
- Stir the flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon collectively in a big bowl, then drizzle the melted butter combination overtop. Toss this combination along with a fork till it’s clumpy, however don’t go too far that you simply flip it right into a paste.
- Stir the apples yet one more time earlier than transferring them right into a buttered 9×9 or 11×7 baking dish.
- Scatter the crisp evenly overtop, then bake at 375F for 50 minutes or till the apples are tender and the topping is a lightweight golden brown. You possibly can cowl the crisp with foil if it begins to get too darkish whereas baking.
- Serve heat with vanilla ice cream, and revel in!
SAM’S TIP: Crisp isn’t the identical factor as cobbler! Crisps typically have a crumblier, crispier topping that’s made primarily of butter, sugar, and oats (although some sources argue that crumbles have oats whereas crisps by no means do, I disagree). Cobblers have a biscuit-like topping that appears like cobbled highway. In the event you’d wish to make apple cobbler as an alternative, you can all the time make the apple base from this recipe and the cobbler topping from my blueberry cobbler. I’d suggest baking as instructed in that recipe for greatest outcomes.
Continuously Requested Questions
Put together the apples and place in your pan as instructed, then cowl and refrigerate. Make the crumble topping and retailer that in a separate hermetic container within the fridge.
When you find yourself able to bake, uncover your apples, scatter the ready topping on high (it could be just a little agency, simply break it up with a fork), and bake in keeping with recipe directions.
Sure! To freeze earlier than baking, put together the crisp as instructed, then cowl and freeze for as much as 3 months. When able to bake, switch to the fridge and thaw for a number of hours or in a single day, then uncover and bake at 350F.
To freeze an apple crisp that’s already been baked, first permit it to chill to room temperature, then cowl tightly with plastic wrap and foil and freeze for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge, uncover, and bake at 350F till warmed by way of, about 20 minutes.
Cool it utterly after which cowl with plastic wrap or foil. You possibly can retailer it at room temperature for twenty-four hours or within the fridge for 4-5 days.
Word that the topping does have a tendency to melt because it sits, so I like to recommend reheating within the oven to revive the crispiness.
I promise I’m not attempting to hurry summer season away, however with the warmth lastly letting up a bit, I can’t assist however really feel just a little bit enthusiastic about fall baking!
Get pleasure from!
Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In the event you do this recipe, make sure you tag me on Instagram, and it’s also possible to discover me on YouTube and Fb
Apple Crisp Recipe
Servings: 8 servings
Energy: 340kcal
Stop your display screen from going darkish
Directions
-
Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and calmly grease a 9×9 or 11×7 glass baking dish² with butter. Set a facet.
-
Mix sliced apples, brown sugar, lemon juice, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a big bowl. Give every thing a superb stir till all substances are mixed and put aside when you put together your crisp topping.
2 lbs (905 g) apples, ¼ cup (50 g) gentle brown sugar, 1 Tablespoon lemon juice, 1 Tablespoon all-purpose flour, ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon, ½ teaspoon salt
Crisp
-
Put together your topping by whisking collectively butter and vanilla extract. Put aside (you don’t need the butter to be too scorching if you add your sugar, so let it cool when you put together your dry substances)
9 Tablespoons unsalted butter, ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
-
In a separate bowl, stir collectively flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
¾ cup (95 g) all objective flour, 1 cup (100 g) quaint oats, ½ cup (100 g) gentle brown sugar, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt, ¾ teaspoon floor cinnamon
-
Pour butter into flour combination and use a fork to stir till combination is mixed and clumpy (don’t over-stir, you need it to be crumbly, not paste-like). Put aside.
Meeting
-
Give your apple combination one other good stir and pour evenly into your ready pan.
-
Use your arms to drop your crumble combination evenly overtop your apple filling.
-
Switch to 375F (190C) oven and bake for 50 minutes or till topping is calmly golden brown and apples are tender when pierced with a fork. If topping is beginning to develop into too darkish and apples are nonetheless crisp, cowl apple crisp with foil whereas persevering with to bake.
-
Serve heat (ideally topped with ice cream!)
Notes
¹Apples
This was about 7 smallish apples for me. I like to recommend utilizing Granny Smith apples as they’re agency and tart. Utilizing a sweeter apple could end in a sweeter crisp that cooks quicker, so hold that in thoughts!
²Baking pan
This recipe will work in a steel pan, however it should probably must prepare dinner for much less time so control it and begin checking sooner.
Video word
I by accident say to make use of ¼ cup of oats within the video. The quantity listed within the recipe (1 cup) is the right amount.
See FAQ part of put up for detailed directions on storing apple crisp, making it forward, or freezing it.
Diet
Serving: 1serving | Energy: 340kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 3g | Fats: 14g | Saturated Fats: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 4g | Trans Fats: 8g | Ldl cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 371mg | Potassium: 21mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 34g | Vitamin A: 950IU | Vitamin C: 15.7mg | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 1.4mg
Dietary info relies on third-party calculations and must be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will fluctuate primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
Recipe initially printed 10/08/2018.
Extra Traditional Fall Recipes
