You’ve found it, the perfect easy apple crisp recipe! With soft, warm apples on bottom and sweet and crumbly crisp on top this is the perfect dessert for those spring and summer months.
Chocolate may be my first love, but sometimes there is nothing better than an easy apple crisp. It is a wonderful dessert to pair with a summer barbecue, or to make ahead and bring to a friend or neighbor with some vanilla ice cream.
Easy Apple Crisp
To me there is one main factor that contributes to the affectionate title “perfect” mentioned above, and that is the crisp/apple ratio. The “crisp” is the critical component, am I right? This crisp is the amazing.
Some of our other favorite summertime desserts are our homemade blackberry ice cream and our famous no bake cookies!
How to Make an Apple Crisp:
Okay you ready for the details of this simple comfort recipe? See below for step by step photo tutorial as well.
Top Left – Slice, peel and core your apples and add them to a large mixing bowl.
Top Right – Add apple sauce, flour, water and cinnamon.
Bottom Left – Mix to combine, and spread across the bottom of a greased 9×13 baking dish.
Bottom Right – To prepare crisp add flour, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and chopped pecans (if desired).
Top Left – Mix until combined.
Top Right – Melt your butter and add that to your crumble mixture.
Bottom Left – Sprinkle crumble evenly over the top of the apples in your baking dish.
Bottom Right – Bake at 375 or until apples are tender. Top with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.
Pro Tips:
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- After the allotted cook time make sure that your apples are soft through. If crumble is beginning to brown and apples need more cook time, cover the pan with foil and bake an additional 15-20 minutes.
- If I am in a hurry I like to buy pre-sliced and peeled apples to hasten preparation time. Otherwise, I love this tool for coring and slicing apples.
- Freezing instructions: Prepare and cook as directed. Wrap pan tightly with aluminum foil and store in the freezer for up to three months. Thaw overnight in fridge and warm in oven at 350 for 20-30 minutes or until warm through.
- Serve with whipped cream and caramel sauce or your favorite vanilla ice cream.
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The Perfect Apple Crisp
Ingredients
For the Apple Mixture
- 10 cups sliced apples
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cups applesauce
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon flour
For the Crisp
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp . ground cinnamon or nutmeg
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans optional
- vanilla bean ice cream optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a large bowl combine apples, water, applesauce, cinnamon and flour and mix to combine.
- Spread mixture across the bottom of a 9x13 pan.
- To prepare crisp, combine oats, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and nuts in a medium bowl.
- Melt butter and add into mixture, stirring until everything is combined. '
- Bake for 45 minutes or until apples are tender.
- Enjoy your warm and delicious crisp with some vanilla ice cream!
Notes
Pro Tips:
- After the allotted cook time make sure that your apples are soft through. If crumble is beginning to brown and apples need more cook time, cover the pan with foil and bake an additional 15-20 minutes.
- If I am in a hurry I like to buy pre-sliced and peeled apples to hasten preparation time. Otherwise, I love this tool for coring and slicing apples.
- Freezing instructions: Prepare and cook as directed. Wrap pan tightly with aluminum foil and store in the freezer for up to three months. Thaw overnight in fridge and warm in oven at 350 for 20-30 minutes or until warm through.
- Serve with whipped cream and caramel sauce or your favorite vanilla ice cream.
- To use a 9x9 pan instead adjust the recipe card to say 9 servings instead of 12 and prepare accordingly.
Nutrition
I always make this recipe when we have company over, because it makes a ton, and we definitely shouldn’t be left alone with the whole pan unsupervised!
When I was updating this old post, I found this picture of my Grandparents enjoying this easy apple crisp recipe with us way back in 2014 (my Grandpa has since passed away). I love it so much. It was a simple reminder of the things that are important in life and how good food can bring people together and help create memories.
Hope you all have a lovely day full of good food and family.
xo,
in
Talk about the yummiest combination ever! So so delicious!
Just in time for Fall! It looks delicious :) Can’t wait to make this! Thanks for sharing!
They are so cute! Apple crisp is my hubby’s FAVOURITE, I think I’ll have to spoil him and test it out :)
Oh yay!! I hope he loves it :)
Looks delicious! I love apple crisp! Just pinned it!
Aw! I’m so glad! Thanks girl!
OOO I LOVE Apple Crisp! And that pick of Gma and Gpa B is adorable :-)
Haha I know! Aren’t they the sweetest?! Thanks girl!
I’m all about fruit desserts lately. This looks tasty.
Me too! Glad I’m not alone!
That looks so good! Thanks for the recipe!~
Your welcome! Hope you like it!