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Easy Apple Crumble (Apple Crisp) is foolproof! A delicious syrup with tender apples baked underneath a buttery oatmeal cookie topping.
Apple Crumble is a dessert you wouldn’t care if you ate for every meal of every day! Full of soft cinnamon spiced apples, brown sugar, and buttery crispy baked oats. The easy answer to apple pie with all of the flavour and minimal effort.
APPLE CRUMBLE OR APPLE CRISP
Most apple crumbles we’ve had in the past (or apple crisp depending on where you are in the world), are either too dry on the inside, OR too watery creating a super soggy crumb topping instead of a CRISPY topping.
A soft apple pie filling bakes in a naturally occurring syrup topped with an incredible oatmeal cookie-like crumble. Serve with a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream and watch it melt all over your hot crumble.
There’s SO MUCH delicious THICK SYRUP on the INSIDE it’s crazy delicious!
HOW DO YOU MAKE APPLE CRUMBLE?
First, you’re going to slice up your apples. For a soft, tender apple filling, slice your apples thinly to ensure they cook right through. You can use a mandolin to get them perfectly thin. They become so tender and soft, melting in your mouth.
For a slightly crunchier filling, slice them thicker.
Once you’ve mixed your crumble together, sprinkle it over your apple filling and bake until the topping golden and crispy! Underneath the cookie crumble, that apple pie filling will be bubbling in its delicious syrup.
HOW DO YOU MAKE APPLE CRISP TOPPING?
Prepare your crumble topping with ingredients I KNOW you have in your kitchen cupboards:
- Quick cooking oats are the best. For a chewier topping, use rolled oats.
- Flour — plain or all purpose. You can also use whole wheat or wholemeal.
- Light brown sugar. For a stronger molasses taste you can use dark brown sugar.
- Ground cinnamon. You can also add in ground cloves and/or all spice.
- Baking powder — please don’t leave this out. This helps recreate the cookie in your topping!
- Melted butter — just as important!
Mix your crumble until the butter soaks through your dry ingredients before topping the apples.
BEST APPLES FOR APPLE CRISP
I always use red apples because we prefer the taste and sweetness. Red Delicious, Fuji, Ambrosia, Cortland or Gala apples are perfect.
However, if you prefer a more tart crisp, use Golden Delicious or Granny Smith Apples.
You could also use canned if that’s all you have on hand, but I do recommend homemade purely because you can flavour it as much as you want.
BEST APPLE CRUMBLE RECIPE
I do have a final warning. Start eating by yourself before anyone realises what you’re doing, because the whole pan WILL be gone in seconds. Just watch your portion. Save it. Hide it. Pretend there’s none left. Listennnnnn to meeee. A desperate woman that misses out on this crisp every time.
If you love crisps, you might fall in love with this Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp (Crumble) or this Easy Mango Blueberry Crumble (Crisp).
Celebrate and give three cheers to no dough making/chilling/rolling and kinda cheating on apple pie with this easy apple crumble (crisp).
CAN YOU MAKE APPLE CRISP IN ADVANCE?
Absolutely! Apple crumble is easy to prep and get a head start on it. Assemble it in your baking dish, cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days before cooking.
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 7, 2016.
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Apple Crumble (Apple Crisp)
Ingredients
APPLE FILLING:
- 8 apples medium, or 10 small apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar packed
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup water
CRUMB:
- 1 1/4 cup quick-cooking oats or rolled oats for a chewier crumb
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Arrange the sliced apples into a 9x13-inch baking dish. Add the sugars, flour and cinnamon over the apple slices. Pour in the water and mix everything through until apples are evenly coated.
- In a bowl, combine the oats, flour, sugars, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and melted butter. Mix well using a metal spoon or your fingertips, until the butter has soaked through the dry ingredients (about one minute of mixing or less). Sprinkle evenly over the apple filling.
- Bake in preheated oven for 40 - 45 minutes, or until the crumb is golden and crisp and the apples are cooked to your liking.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This was just amazing. The crumble was perfect, the apples just right. Not too sweet. Huge hit!!!! Thank you!!!
Wonderful apple crumble and so easy to make, cannot wait to make again. I used my own apples from my own backyard. Son love it too.
I used quick steel cut oats and it still came out delicious. I also used a mandolin for thin cut apples.
5 stars! Incredibly delicious just like every single one of the other recipes that I’ve tried from this website. Thank you!
This is the best apple crisp I have ever had!!!
Hubby said this was the BEST apple crisp he has ever had and that’s a HUGE compliment coming from a boy who grew up in an orchard! (shhhh… don’t tell his mama!) 😉 But seriously… I can’t wait to wow some future dinner guests with this! I did make 1.5x the crumble, cuz you can never have too much crumble in my mind! IT WAS AMAZZZZZZZING!!!!!!
I made this today for Thanksgiving & it was great!! I’m really glad I doubled the recipe!!? It was a lot of apple peeling & slicing, but totes worth it! I used Granny Smith apples, which were delicious and their tartness was a good balance with the sweet oatmeal cookie topping. I also used apple pie spice. I’m going to try it with honey crisp apples next time. And there will most definitely be a next time! ?
You should invest in an Apple peeler corer slicer. I bought mine at Williams Sonoma years ago and it changed my life. I do notice that farberware makes one that looks like mine or you can get it on Amazon.. A life changer for sure. You will never crange when it comes to Apple peeling or Apple desserts again!
Hi Karina, This looks so good and I cannot wait to try it. I do have a question. You said this could be frozen? Would you freeze before or after cooking it? Thanks for any help you can give me. Have a wonderful and blessed day. 🙂
Loved the topping, I baked it for 55mins for an extra crispy top. I didn’t know red delicious could be so yummy! Can’t wait to ad lib this recipe with other fruits!
I’m making you crispy wings in my NuWave dome oven and may find some of my home canned pie filling to make this also. Oh boy, going to need elastic waist pants! Lol