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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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. :)
I don’t know if they’re available in America (or wherever you are – there I go, making assumptions…), but I think Granny Smiths would be prefect for this. My Nana makes a similar dessert, and she swears by the Granny Smiths. Hope this helps:)
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.
Joy, I just made this for my family…wanted you to know the response.
My sister “you should write her a thank you note. every day of the year. this could get you like 3 husbands.”
my other sister: ” every time you come home, you make yummy things and I get fat. I wish you came back more.”
My whole family thanks you. This is truly the most delicious thing of all time.
Joy, this was FABULOUS! I am continually impressed by your amazing recipes. Thanks!
Joy,
This recipe is just awesome!!! I’m more of a chocolate kind of gal, but I made this by special request from my boyfriend. Boy, was it super yummy!!! He loved it too!!! Warm with vanilla ice cream is the best!!! All the recipes I’ve tried from your site have turned out so well that I just keep coming back to see what I wanna try next!!!! Thanks so much!!! :-)
it’s just the best ever, right!? so glad you liked it!
Just made this for my fam. Served w vanilla ice cream. So great. We all thank you!!!!
Joy, thanks for such a FABULOUS recipe. Let me just tell you that I really do not care for apple desserts but I can’t say that any longer! I love this apple dessert and it is good reheated the next day too. I couldn’t talk while I was eating this because I was moaning in bliss from this recipe. Serve this with ice cream or real whipped cream. I did not miss a bottom crust as there is enough of the “crisp” to go around. Most recipes skimp, but not this one. So, take it from someone who really does not like apples, and does not like apple desserts, that this is a winner and you will love this perfect recipe.
Hey,
I have just discovered your blog and love it. I am in Toronto Canada, and I don’t know what a ‘stick’ of butter is….can you help?
Made apple tarte yesterday and love, love, loved it
Lynne
hi lynne, a stick of butter is 1/2 cup in the U.S.
enjoy the crisp!
I’m 12 years old and I’ve been reading your recipes since last year, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE them! I always find one I like on Saturday or Sunday morning and my Mom and I love to make your recipes! Especially during the holidays, you’re a family favorite!
you totally made my day Tea! thank you!
This is THE BEST apple crisp I have ever had! Thank you so much for sharing Joy!
OhmygodIcan’tstop.
Just made this…home alone…1/3 of the pan is already gone and there’s no end in sight. Help.
You are amazing–more fall recipes pleeeeeeez!
This was FANTASTIC. Without thinking about it I diced the apples, and I’m not sure what kind they were as we picked them ourselves, so it was a little mushier than should be, but amazing all the same! Thank you for another winner!!!
Hi Joy:
Today, after reading your newly discovered blog, while dieting, I made this dessert for a friend
of mine who is currently housebound and famous for her apple crisp. She plotzed! Thought this was
waaaay better than hers. So I am pleased to say, that not only do I get smiley pleasure from reading
your blog, I was thrilled to see the recipes work! and are so yummy, as I kenew they would be! (On to the more complex, with not a shred of doubt!)
I think I’m old enough to be your mother (whew, not your forgotten 80 year old grandmother)…are
you available for adoption???
I laughed when I read, “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.” I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that way! I’m making the apple crisp for my husband, the apple crisp connoisseur, today.
This is the first time I am glad my mom doesn’t read a blog that I do… because she wouldn’t like what I am about to say…. This apple crisp is better than hers. Oh goodness; this is awesome. Thank you :)
I made this crisp the first time a man I was seeing came over to my apartment to “watch a movie.” It was a complicated relationship to say the least…He was only visiting and we literally lived in different countries at the time. Lo and behold, 5 months later the same boy I baked for… moved across the ocean and the sea to live in the same city with me. And my oven still gives me a big ole wink every night when he comes home to me. Joy- you inspire my life.
i LOVE this comment. you are darling!
I tried this last night and wanted to tell you it was AMAZING. Though I did forget to get oats, it turned out delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Making this crisp for a boy on Monday! Guess I’ll be putting it to the test! :)
my crisp is in the oven RIGHT NOW for a thanksgiving day treat!
OMG, I absolutely loved this recipe…can we say YUM YUM YUM…it was a huge hit this Thanksgiving…Thank you so much for sharing it. I turned out to be a piggy and ate 1 full 8×8 pan of it in a span of 3 days….(shaking my head) Is that terrible? Well check out my blog http://nomeecreations.wordpress.com I show off my baking skills using your recipes :)
Hi Joy! I made this, and took some pieces to a friend and she had them while hot and adored them. I had mine at home and added hot custard! So good. The weather here is very cold and it was scrumptious and hit the spot.
Hi Joy, I am making this for the 24 for family and friends.I just love apple crisp or pies anything with warm apples and ice cream.I am starting on this hobby/passion of baking.I hope it turns really good, my husband is a Cheff so I have to impress him and his family.!!
This is a lot like apple crumble. It would be yummy with rhubarb instead of apple. Do you know if there is anyway to convert cups to metric? I live in Ireland. Oh wait, sorry. I’ll just ask Google.
WOW, just discovered your stie and am officially in love with you, in a total foodie way. My fiancee` is absolutely OBSESSED with apple crisp. Fathers Day cannot come quick enough, really looking forward to busting this one out on him. Thanks!
This is in the oven at this very moment!
Um, Joy? This apple crisp is badass!!!!
Thank you for sharing!
Jody (Joy, with a ‘d’)!
Just made this recipe for my family and they absolutely loved it!
The four of us polished off the whole thing in under 20 minutes!
Definitely the BEST apple crisp I’ve ever had. Thanks so much for sharing!
Susan
My husband works really hard, he deserves to come home to Apple Crisp! ;0)
I read this post twice, wondering if you have a preferred apple that you use? We are fans of Braeburn and Gala…but will they hold up?
LOVE this site, I laugh out loud every time I read something here. Baking=JOY!
currently in the oven and the house smells so great, AH! i love being home from college, i missed my kitchen. thanks joy! :D
I don’t know if this question has been asked or not, but I’m doing to know what china pattern the apple crisp is in! It looks similar to my noritake (i have an inherited mix and matched collection of allure, sherwood, melrose,and shenandoah) and your pattern looks very similar but with different colors!
Hi Joy,
I made this crumble tonight, but the crust didn’t turn out that ‘crumbly’. What could have caused that?
Oh my God. I made this apple crisp for a boy last night and it was a hit, to say the least. He even asked to take the rest of the pan home with him. (Fat chance!)
I used Golden Delicious apples and they were awesome; I’ll use them again next time.
Made this tonight for dinner with some girlfriends, but after tasting it, I know I am going to have to make a pan for the boyfriend pronto. Seriously. This is the best apple crisp EVER. Of all time.
it really is that good. i’m so so glad you loved it!
Hi! I love your site and this recipe. I found it a few years ago and I have been making this crisp every fall ever since! I am only 15, but I love to cook and bake. I want to be you when I grow up!
very delicious. thanks for sharing :)
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