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I’ve got autumn on my mind lately. Last weekend my family went apple picking and boy did we come home with an abundance of apples. Oh so delicious, and oh so colorful. There’s nothing I love more than a good, fresh-from-the-orchard, apple. We go through apples as quickly as we go through bananas in my house. But imagine my surprise when we came home with 13 POUNDS of apple goodness. I think we got a little overzealous with the picking. Since we gathered so many, I wanted to make sure we used them all instead of wasting them. I also wanted to bake a dessert that night so I had to think of a quick and easy recipe to make to use at least several pounds of our apple stock. Enter apple crisp.
Now — despite having lots of kitchen gadgets and tools (you may recall my recent excitement over my spiralizer), I do not own an apple corer/peeler. But I Googled and found a foolproof way to do it with just a vegetable peeler. You slice the top and bottom of the apple so it’s flat. This allows you to hold it better and peel it more efficiently. After the apple is peeled, it’s easy to see where the core is inside, so you just cut around it. Easy peasy.
After all the apples were peeled and cored, putting this dessert together was simple. Just a little bit of this and a little bit of that, bake it and enjoy it. Plus all these leftover apple pieces were really great for packing lunches throughout the week.
Apple crisp with vanilla bean ice cream was a huge hit with my family. I hope yours enjoys it as well. Happy Autumn!
Warm Apple Crisp with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 3 lbs apples
- 1 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 C dark brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/3 C whole wheat flour
- 1/3 C coconut sugar
- 1/3 C rolled oats
- 4 Tbsp butter, cold and divided
- 1/2 C chopped walnuts
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375˚F and lightly grease a 9×9 glass baking dish. Peel, core, and slice the apples into 1/2″ thick slices. Toss in a large bowl with lemon juice and set aside. In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and combine with the apples.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, and oats. Cut the cold butter into the flour mixture, creating a crumble topping. Add in the walnuts.
Spread the apples in the prepared dish, and then sprinkle the topping evenly. Bake for 45 minutes, or until the apples are fork tender and the topping begins to brown. Serve warm with vanilla bean ice cream. Enjoy!
I’m thinking I may have to go back to the orchard sooner rather than later and stockpile some of this sweet deliciousness for the winter.
Nah! Who am I kidding — I still have 10 pounds of apples!
xo
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