Old Fashioned Apple Crisp – Barefeet in the Kitchen

Heat slices of baked apples lined with cinnamon brown sugar streusel topping are all that’s required to make this straightforward apple crisp recipe.

All by itself or topped with vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream, apple crisp is one in all our favourite desserts year-round. When you handle to have any leftovers the following day, this makes a spectacular breakfast too.

You may even embrace a crisp for a giant weekend brunch, coupled with a pan of breakfast enchiladas, a cheesy bacon quiche, or a jalapeno popper breakfast casserole.

You’re most likely not shocked to listen to that my favourite option to eat that is with my morning espresso and a scoop of ice cream. It’s most likely a great factor that I don’t often have a recent apple crisp ready within the kitchen within the morning.

Straightforward Apple Crisp Recipes

As a lot as I really like apple crisp, I don’t at all times love consuming the soupy dish that generally masquerades as an “apple crisp.” This quaint recipe is in no way soupy, the tender apples are lined with the right quantity of crunchy topping to stability it properly.

Need slightly extra proof of my love for straightforward apple crisp recipes? Tart cranberries and candy apples are baked inside a brown sugar and oat crisp for a perfect not-to-sweet cranberry apple crisp.

Tart blackberries are paired with sweet apples on this brown sugar and oat fruit crisp. Apple Crisp Ice Cream is made with the creamiest of do-it-yourself vanilla ice lotions, then fully loaded with bits of cinnamon candy baked apples, and crunchy streusel topping.

Outdated Customary Recipe for Apple Crisp

This recipe is really easy to drag collectively and solely takes a couple of minutes of prep time. Essentially the most labor-intensive half is slicing your apples. To save lots of time, I don’t peel the apples for this recipe, although you actually can.

You should utilize any form of apples you want in an apple crisp and it’ll end up deliciously every time. Granny Smith apples yield slightly bit extra tartness and pair properly with the brown sugar and cinnamon.

My favourite mixture is a mixture of Honeycrisp and Granny Smith apples.

Slicing the apples thinly and evenly is necessary for getting the right apple crisp texture. Apples which are sliced too thick will nonetheless style good however could not find yourself as buttery gentle.

Recipe for Apple Crisp Topping

This apple crisp with oat topping is the last word in forgiving dessert recipes. There’s no strain to embellish something or make it look tremendous fancy, no measuring out batter or shaping of the dough.

To make this apple crisp topping recipe, you’ll mix softened butter with brown sugar, oats, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Mix with a spoon or your fingers till crumbly.

Sprinkle the topping over the apples within the baking dish. Pop the pan within the oven and everybody in your home can be wandering into the kitchen to search out out what smells so good.

Gluten-Free Apple Crisp

I’ve made this apple crisp with each all-purpose flour and oat flour. Each methods come out extraordinarily properly and I don’t have a desire for one over the opposite. The oat flour pairs very properly with the oats within the crumb topping.

When you’re cooking for somebody with Celiac illness,  take care to make sure that the oats and oat flour you utilize are licensed gluten-free. Some oats are processed on the identical tools as gluten-containing merchandise which may be a difficulty for these with extreme gluten allergic reactions.

Searching for much more gluten-free dessert recipes? Take a look at the total assortment of gluten free desserts on this website.

Straightforward Apple Crisp Recipe

1. Preheat oven to 375 levels. Grease a small baking dish with butter.
2. Unfold the apples throughout the greased baking pan.
3. Mix the butter with brown sugar, oats, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Mix with a spoon or your fingers till crumbly
4. Sprinkle the topping over the apples and bake for 30-32 minutes, till the topping is golden brown and the apples are tender.
5. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Baking tip: If once you add the butter to the dry topping elements it isn’t gentle sufficient to simply combine into crumbs, you’ll be able to place the entire bowl (dry elements and butter each) within the microwave for 10-15 seconds, simply lengthy sufficient to melt the butter and make it straightforward to mix into crumbs for the topping.

Does apple crisp have to be refrigerated?

Questioning whether or not apple crisp must be refrigerated? According to the USDA, fruit fillings and pies which were ready with sugar may be safely neglected at room temperature for as much as two days. Apple crisp is on this class, so technically, it doesn’t have to be refrigerated for those who’re going to eat it inside that point interval.

Nevertheless, I at all times suggest refrigerating fruit crisps, just because I feel they style more energizing when saved within the fridge. Take into account that for those who received’t end the apple crisp inside a few days, it’s best to refrigerate it as quickly as potential. This extends its shelf life and retains it more energizing for longer.

Final, however not least, for those who dwell someplace heat or humid, please refrigerate your apple crisp. Heat climate and excessive moisture ranges could cause the apple crisp to spoil quicker than it often would.

It’s straightforward sufficient to heat apple crisp in a microwave. It solely takes 20-30 seconds to reheat particular person servings. To retailer the crisp, cowl the pan tightly with plastic wrap or an hermetic lid and place it within the fridge for as much as per week.

There’s no finish to the methods you need to use recent apples in desserts and baked items. I really like them in a conventional pie or homemade applesauce, after all, however apples are additionally enjoyable in surprising dishes like these crunchy apple nachos. (Your children will LOVE these, imagine me.)

For extra nice apple desserts, take a look at this German Apple Pie, the Slow Cooker Stuffed Apples, this Apple Cheddar Galette, and these Apple Cheesecake Crumb Bars are all terrific methods to make use of recent apples.

And for those who haven’t made apple butter earlier than (or if it’s been some time), you NEED to go make a batch of Slow Cooker Apple Butter. It’s whole apple heaven and really easy to make!

When you’re on the lookout for extra fruit crisps, this Blackberry Coconut Crisp and this Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp are each sensible methods to take pleasure in summer season fruits in your dessert. Can’t resolve whether or not to make a fruit crisp or bars? These Apricot Crisp Bars are the very best of each worlds!

{initially revealed 6/2/2014 – recipe notes and pictures up to date 1/6/23}