Sit and Stay Awhile Apple Crisp
Written by joythebaker on October 22, 2008 – 10:40 pm -
Some recipes are good enough to serve at the church picnic. Some recipes are fine enough to take to the family barbecue. Other recipes you know will satisfy your office coworkers. Those savages will eat just about anything.
Then there’s the recipe that you pull out of your back pocket when you’re looking for love.
This beautifully simple Apple Crisp recipe is that “get a man (or woman!) and hold on to him (or her!) recipe”. If you already have that man, consider this your “it’s time for a ring” recipe, or your “sorry I scratched the bumper of our new car” recipe, maybe even the “thanks for working so hard today honey… I made the house smell like warm apples with this apple crisp just for you” recipe. See, I’m looking out for you.
This recipe is the perfect balance of warm memories and good love. The warm apples tossed with sugar and cinnamon beautifully collide with the toasted, crunchy topping.
It’s a dream come true.
So the Bake a Warm Apple Crisp and Get a Man experiment hasn’t yet worked for me. That’s mostly because I haven’t tried it yet.
But Ann, the generous lady at Fidget who was kind enough to share this recipe with me, has had oodles of success. She wooed her husband with this very recipe and still has requests for the apple crisp from Mr. Fidget six years later. It works!
Sit and Stay Awhile Apple Crisp
recipe from Ann of Fidget
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.
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wow, this recipe looks perfect. My mom LOVES apple crisp, so I might make this for her just because she’s so sweet.
So good Joy your inspiration has changed my baking. This recipe inspired me to make my first apple pie. All from scratch. It gave me such happiness. Who knew watching people you love eat something your so proud of would could change a rotten day into a sunshiny day.
Made this apple crisp last night, and it was wonderful! Thanks, Joy!
my roommates & i loooove apple crisp! it’s a weekly tradition of ours to make it and watch mtv. i can’t wait for the three of us to try this recipe. thanks! (:
can you use plain old-fashioned oats instead of quick oats?
thanks!
Just made this tonight, it was deelish! Unfortunately I was halfway into it when I realized I was out of oats. So I used 3 packets of my kiddo’s oatmeal (2 apple cinnamon and 1 cinnamon roll flavors). Aaaand, I didn’t have cinnamon, but only cinnamon sugar. So I added a pinch of cloves to boost the flavor.
Still, despite my inability to follow it precisely, it was fantastic! We topped it with a teensy bit of Mexican Praline icecream from Bluebell.
I have some leftover for tomorrow. Feel free to drop by and I’ll make you a heeping bowl.
Thanx for the awesome recipes & inspiration!!!
Hi Joy,
I am making this recipe on Friday for my friends in college. I am so excited but nervous as well. fingers crossed hope it all goes well.
What kind of apples do you recommend using?
Yum, yum, yum… mine is still cooling but I keep swiping bites of it. It’s begging for vanilla ice cream! I used only macintosh apples… I know they got really soft when cooked, but it’s a childhood thing that I can’t get over. In crisp and in pies you can never go wrong with a mix of different apples (though delicious stay too hard, IMO).
One little addition that I think would put this over the top… a pinch or two of salt in the topping mixture. :>)
Thanks for posting this!
I have to say, I just have to tell you how much I love this apple crisp. I made it for Thanksgiving and made extra on purpose to have plenty of leftovers for the week. It lasted a week… and it was just delicious!
It’s simple enough to throw together on a weeknight, and super satisfying- thanks for posting it!
I made this over the weekend and it was so good. Especially with vanilla ice cream. Will definitely be making this again
Joy, could the butter be substituted with coconut oil do you think? I love, love apple crisp and just wondered as I have some I want to use.