What is a girl to do with all these apples? Remember the $500 of apples we bought at the orchard. Well not $500 but it felt like that with all the apples coming out of my kitchen!
I made the best apple Crisp ever. I will share the recipe below.
I also made a very tasty Apple Bread. I did not take a picture of the bread - oops! I adapted that recipe from Two Peas and Pod if you are curious.
I also made Apple Donut Muffins. I decided to be healthy and modify a few things. Not a good idea! They were gross! Anything that has "donut" in it let's just say should not be modified. I found that recipe at Barbara Bakes. Please do not make any changes! Keep the recipe as is!
The apple crisp recipe is the BEST I have ever made. I think i may have mentioned that earlier. This recipe is from Joy The Baker. The combination of spices was perfect. It has a nice amount of apples that you use on the bottom and the crisp was just DELISH!
Serve it with some vanilla frozen yogurt and you will have a happy mouth!
Bake in an 8×8 baking dish or double the recipe and bake in a 9×13 dish
Filling:
5 to 6 medium-size apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/4-inch slices. (About 7.5 cups)
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1.5 tsp cinnamon
Topping:
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cups lightly packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 stick unsalted butter, well-softened
2/3 cup finely chopped pecans (optional)
1/3 cup quick oats
Preheat the oven to 350. Generously grease an 8×8 baking pan with butter.
Place a layer of apple slices in the bottom of the pan and dust with sugar/cinnamon mixture. Continue layering apples and dusting with cinnamon/sugar until done. Toss the apple mixture until evenly coated in cinnamon sugar. The apples should be just about to the top of the pan (they will cook down).
For the topping, place the flour, brown sugar, nuts, cinnamon and oats in a large bowl and stir well with a wooden spoon. Work the butter into the mixture with your fingertips until evenly distributed. Take one full handful of the topping and toss it into the sugared apple mixture. Spread the rest of the topping evenly over the apples. (I usually end up with a dough-like topping that I just lay on top of the apples).
Bake the crisp in the dish on a baking sheet on the center oven rack until the topping is crunchy and the apples are bubbling, 55-60 minutes.
Serve hot; it’s excellent with vanilla ice cream.
Source: Joy The Baker
