Apples Galore

By: Ashley J

You can not go through fall and not have a home made apple crisp. It is one of my favorite desserts that we make from our own apples grown on the farm. It tastes just like fall in every forkfull. This fall we had a ton of apples so naturally we had to make 6 apple pies, 3 batches of apple crisp, and one pan of apple bars. We also had to pick the extra apples and cut them up to freeze so that there can be yummy apple desserts all year long. One of my favorite apple desserts is apple crisp, mostly because of the yummy brown sugar and oatmeal topping. You can’t forget to add a dollop of cool whip on top to bring it all together. Here is a recipe I found to make your own yummy apple crisp.

INGREDIENTS

FRUIT FILLING:

• 6 baking apples, peeled, cored, and cut into wedges
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour

TOPPING:

• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 12 tablespoons butter (1 1/2 sticks), chilled and cut into small pieces
• 1/2 cup nuts, coarsely chopped and toasted

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

For the fruit filling:

In a large mixing bowl, toss together the apples, lemon juice, sugar, and flour. Pour the apple mixture into a buttered 2-quart baking dish and set aside.

For the topping:

In a large mixing bowl, mix the flour, rolled oats, brown sugar,cinnamon, and salt. With a food processor, a pastry blender, or your fingers work the butter into the flour mixture just until it comes together and large clumps form. Fold nuts into mixture.

Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit. Bake the apple crisp until the fruit is bubbling and the topping is golden brown and crisp, about 45 minutes.