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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hi! i was just wondering if there is a specific apple that works best for this recipe. thanks so much for sharing!
Oh my gosh. I can SMELL this and I want it!! Looks delicious and as always, great photos that make us all drool!
hi aimee- i’m sorry i never mentioned it! i used granny smith apples. the super bright and tart kind. you might also try pink ladies. those are nice too!
food librarian- the smell was outta this world. thanks!
Looks like a keeper.
I make an apple crips recipe that’s very similar to this (a bit more oats and a bit less flour for the topping) and I can definitely confirm that it is a winner. It was one of the first things I baked for my now husband–it’s practically foolproof, unlike the some of the other things I tried to bake for him (stupid lemon meringue pie). Looking at yours makes me want to make it again!
Hi Joy! Just thought I should comment on today’s post because a)your crisp looks damn fine, and b)I just made a post on my blog about the recipe that helped me wooe my husband 5 years ago- Cranberry Bread. Funny coincidence, no?
Looks delish…so does everything else here..glad I found your blog
That looks amazingly delicious. I’m definitely making it this weekend.
Wow! That looks soooooooo cinna-mini-deliciousness. Yes, and that’s a word. Just soooo you know. :)
I’d stick around for a bowl of this crisp. Funnily enough, I’ve made two already this week: my honey isn’t going anywhere!
This looks simply amazing. It may even be better than Mom’s. But SHHHH!!! Don’t tell her I said that!
Perfect time of year for this. This is making me really hungry.
Ooh, and I just got some fresh picked apples from a friend yesterday! Woohoo!!!
I’m so glad you liked it! It’s just pure comfort (and wooing) food to me. :)
Thanks for this great recipe I ll try it next time I make apple crisp :-) looks delicious and hey I want my man to love me more :)))
oh i will definitely make this for my boyfriend. He loves anything apple and cinnamon and caramel!!
Looks like the perfect recipe for me to make a treat for my husband! He adores apple crisp.
apple crisp is a regular in our house (and also how i wooed my husband)! as a matter of fact, we had an apple crisp last night. it’s so comforting and just plain fantastic!
I have two huge bags of apples in my kitchen…and that looks a fabby cause for some of them!
This apple crips looks fantastic! I love the topping!!
I absolutely LOVE your site. Whenever I am looking for something to bake, I always come here to see what delicious yummies you have made. Thank you for careing enough to share.
I have a friend who desperately wants to “get a man!” Maybe we will conduct a little experiment to see if it will work for her and I’ll let you know how it goes. My man will probably be kept as long as I always make sure to have ketchup in the fridge! Gotta love when they’re easy to please! :)
What an amazing looking apple crisp!
First of all, thanks for (sort of) addressing the men and women who are more interested in getting a woman. Secondly, that dish looks simply scrumptious! I think I’ll try that dish to get a woman! I need one haha!
I actually dreamt about this last night. No kidding! It really must be a good recipe to travel all that way and get into my head in London! Now I *have* to make it.
This looks great!! I just made a pear crisp using my standby apple crisp recipe (but using pears instead, obviously). I bet your recipe would be awesome with pears, too!! Its hard to stray away from apples, though! I’m definitely going to have to try this…it really looks delicious! :-)
Today, it’s cold, cloudy, and Friday. My kitchen graciously contains the above ingredients, and my afternoon now has a purpose. If my husband decides to proclaim his love for me (again), I’ll let you know that the Bake An Apple Crisp and Get a Man technique can indeed work for someone other than the crisp’s creator.
Thank you for this recipe! It brings back so many memories of living at home with my grandma. The smell of fresh baked apple crisp out of the oven after coming home from school. Love it!
Looks fabulous!
I might have to bake this to get myself a man…
I’ve seen a lot of apple crisp recipes, but this looks like one of the best!
Ahhh… this is a variation on the “vault” recipe from my Grandma. My mom has laminated a copy that was hand written by my Grandma. And yes, my husband loves me even more when I make it!
What an adorable story, and, oh, if only life were always so simple that feeding a boy you liked the perfect apple crisp would make him like you, too. :)
I made this tonight for 2 girlfriends and we devoured it! SO DELICIOUS! I have this urge to make it every night for the rest of my life…
I made this Saturday night for my mom and grandmother who were visiting us to see their new grand daughter. They’re still talking about the apple crisp this morning! Thanks for helping making it a memorable dinner!
Update: I tried it, it was fabulous, my house was filled with the delicate aroma of apples and cinnamon.
A winner by all accounts and thanks for sharing this!!!
Apple crisps are my favourite! This looks great – thanks for posting a new recipe for me to try!
Delicious! Add a little vanilla ice cream on top for me and I’m good to go :)
Made this last night w/ some fresh Mac apples for a small gathering of friends – a lovely aroma wafted throughout the whole house! Received many compliments along the lines of “this is the best thing I’ve ever tasted!” and witnessed many orgasmic-like facial expressions. Thanks for sharing, this one takes the cake! :)
Loved your web site. I saw it in the Seattle P.I. this morning and will certainly visit it often. Thought it strange that there was not a Print option for printing the recipes.
Thanks
Hello, can you tell me what the best storage method for apple crips is? Should it be kept in the firdge or on the counter, and how long does it stay good for either way?
It Works!!!!! I made it on Saturday and he bought the ring on Monday. Seriously! Thank you a million times over.
Also, I added pears and pomegranete seeds with the apples. Still a wonderfully delicioius dessert and gorgeous color.
This is definitely the first recipe on the “Things To Make When I Have a Boyfriend” list. :-D
I’m going to make this for Christmas Eve Dinner!! Yum! Thanks!
Hi Joy, me again, to report back that this recipe is success! I had an extra pie crust so I made enough apple filling and crumb coat for a small round pan and for the pie. I cooked down the apples before I put them in the pie crust to try and keep the liquid from making the crust all soggy and it worked! We had some guys over fixing our phone lines the day we made this and they kept commenting on how good the kitchen smelled, I felt bad it wasn’t done until after they were gone…h well, more for me!
Thanks for this one, it will become a standby for sure!
That recipe looks fantastic, but even better are the pictures! What kind of camera do you use?
Hello! I just baked this and am scarfing it down as I type! I added pears to this recipe and it is seriously the best thing I have ever made and/or eaten. I want to thank you for posting such amazing recipes!
I had to post after I made this fantastic apple crisp! I used to live in a house that had a prolific apple tree in the yard. I am well-versed in apple crisp, or so I thought until I tried your recipe! This is fantabulous!!
So scrumptious that my sweetie ate almost the whole thing before I had a chance to have seconds! Yum – E!!
Thanks for this recipe and for your blog — it always perks me up when I need perking up ;)
I just made this! It is SUPER amazing!
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.
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