Apple Crisp

The perfect recipe for an abundant apple season. After one taste, you’ll want to make it again and again. MORE+ LESS-

By Betty Crocker Kitchens

June 15, 2018

medium tart cooking apples, sliced (4 cups)

3/4

cup packed brown sugar

1/2

cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour

1/2

cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats

1/3

cup butter or margarine, softened

3/4

teaspoon ground cinnamon

3/4

teaspoon ground nutmeg

Cream or Ice cream, if desired

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1

Heat oven to 375ºF. Grease bottom and sides of 8-inch square pan with shortening.
2

Spread apples in pan. In medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients except cream until well mixed; sprinkle over apples.
3

Bake about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown and apples are tender when pierced with a fork. Serve warm with cream.

To ensure recipe success if using a vegetable oil spread, use a spread with at least 65% vegetable oil.
Rise to the occasion! Self-rising flour can be used in this recipe.
If blueberry crisp is your cup of tea, simply use 4 cups fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blueberries for the apples.

Nutrition Information

1 Starch; 1 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;

3 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

More About This Recipe

When the weather turns cool, there’s nothing quite like a warm dessert that perfectly balances sweet and tart, crunchy and soft and hot and cold – serving apple crisp with ice cream is a must! Another reason to love this classic fall dessert is that you don’t have to be a baker to make a perfect apple crisp, anyone can do it. All you need is this time-tested recipe, which has been approved by hundreds of home cooks. Take note though, the best apple crisp is made with firm, tart apples that hold their shape when baked – like Braeburn, Cortland and Fuji. As a general rule, the fresher your apples the better, after all this is the official dessert of fall! And if the apple crop is really abundant, try your hand a few more of our apple crisp and cobbler recipes and perfect your technique by learning about baking all things apple.