A scrumptious easy dessert made with fresh sliced apples cooked with sugar and cinnamon and a buttery oat crumb mixture, all baked to golden brown perfection.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Southern
Keyword apple crisp recipe, can you freeze apple crisp, does apple crisp need to be refrigerated, how to make apple crisp
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour5 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Calories 427kcal
Author Beth Pierce
Ingredients
Topping
Topping
1cuprolled oats
1cupflour
¾cupbrown sugar
1teaspoonground cinnamon
½teaspoonsalt
½cupunsalted butter melted
Apple Filling
8large apples peeledcored and chopped (Granny Smith and Honeycrisp)
1 ½teaspoonslemon juice
½cuppacked brown sugar
1tablespoonflour
1teaspoonground cinnamon
¼teaspoonvanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8 or 9x9 inch baking dish.
In a medium bowl, stir the rolled oats, flour, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and salt together. Drizzle in the melted butter and stir with a fork until coarse crumbs form.
In a large bowl, toss the apples with the lemon juice. Add the brown sugar, flour, ground cinnamon, and vanilla extract and stir to coat. Spoon the mixture in the prepared casserole dish.
Spread the crumb topping over the apples as evenly as possible. Bake uncovered for 40-50 minutes or until bubbly on the sides and golden brown.
Notes
Use crisp tart apples like Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Braeburn, or Pink Lady. I like to use a combination of these, with the majority of them being Granny Smith.
For added texture and crunch, add chopped nuts like pecans, walnuts, or almonds.
Use old-fashioned oats, not quick oats. Quick oats are partially cooked, dried, and rolled thinner. Therefore, they do not stay as crispy or maintain their shape as well.
Slice your apples about 1/4 inch thick or thicker if you like a little crispiness after baking. Remember that you might reheat the crisp.
Lightly spray the baking dish with non-stick baking spray, as it will keep the crumble from sticking to the edges.
Apple Crisp is delicious, warm or cold. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Reheat in the oven on low heat or in the microwave at reduced power.
For an extra special treat, serve a la mode. My favorite is all-natural vanilla ice cream.