Caramel Apple Crisp – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

Cinnamon‑spiced apples are tossed with caramel and topped with a buttery candy crisp topping on this caramel apple crisp. Serve heat with ice cream for the proper cozy fall dessert!

Don’t sleep on making this apple crisp! The caramel flavors the apple filling – however there’s loads of tart taste from the apples and buttery crunch within the topping to stability out the sweetness. This dessert is to-die for!

Substances for Caramel Apple Crisp

For such a luxuriously scrumptious dessert, the elements record is surprisingly transient!

The elements for the streusel-y, crisp topping are very fundamental and easy: equal elements flour, brown sugar, and old style oats tossed with a little bit of cinnamon after which mixed with chilly butter items.

Because the apple crisp bakes, the apples soften and pockets of caramel peek up by means of the buttery, candy topping.

Extra Notes for This Recipe:

1. Serve the caramel apple crisp heat with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream. The combo of chilly creamy sweetness with the buttery, candy, tart, caramelly apple crisp is unbelievably delish.
2. In case you purchase a 10- or 12-ounce jar of caramel sauce for this recipe, you’ll have additional to drizzle over the apple crisp and ice cream if you need (a really glorious alternative).
3. The apple crisp is assembled in a 9X13-inch pan. It could seem fairly full, however identical to apple pie, because it bakes, the apple filling cooks down. In case you’re nervous about spillovers, place the 9X13-inch pan on a foil-lined baking dish previous to baking.
4. Tent the highest of the baking pan with foil if the crisp topping browns too shortly. The crisp must bake absolutely for the apple filling to melt and thicken correctly.

Extra Causes to Love This Apple Crisp

I’ve lengthy been a fan of traditional apple crisp and apple pie (one in all my favourite pies to eat!), however I truthfully don’t know that I’ll return to both fairly often after this caramel apple crisp.

• This crisp supplies all the flavour and delight of your favourite apple crisp or apple pie however with that additional caramel component that provides superb depth of taste with out overpowering the apples.
• It’s a lot simpler to make and assemble than traditional apple pie.
• This recipe can simply serve a crowd (or conversely, it may be halved to make a smaller pan!).

Heat, cozy, scrumptious, I feel this could be the proper dessert for fall. I can’t wait so that you can make it! 🍎🍏

Caramel Apple Crisp

Yield: 8 servings

Prep Time: 45 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 1 hour hr 5 minutes minutes

Resting Time: 10 minutes minutes

Complete Time: 2 hours hrs

Apple Filling:

• 8 cups (1020 g) diced Honeycrisp or different sweet-tart crisp apple selection, about 4 to five giant apples (see observe)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• ¼ cup (36 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons floor cinnamon
• ½ cup (165 g) caramel sauce (see observe for storebought or do-it-yourself choices)

Crisp Topping:

• 1 cup (142 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (212 g) packed gentle brown sugar
• 1 cup (100 g) old style rolled oats
• ¾ teaspoon floor cinnamon
• ¾ cup (170 g) salted butter (12 tablespoons), reduce into tablespoon-size items

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• Preheat oven to 350 levels F.

• In a big bowl, toss the apples with the lemon juice. Add the flour and cinnamon and toss till evenly mixed. Add the caramel sauce and stir to mix. Relying on the thickness of the caramel sauce, it might clump up a bit; that is okay. Simply stir to evenly distribute the sauce all through the apples. Put aside.

• In a medium bowl, stir collectively the flour, brown sugar, oats and cinnamon till evenly mixed. Add the butter and use a pastry blender or two butter knifes to chop the butter into the dry elements till the combination is crumbly and the butter is in tiny items (smaller than pea-sized).

• Scrape the apple combination evenly right into a 9X13-inch dish. Sprinkle the crisp topping evenly excessive.

• Bake for 60-65 minutes till the topping is golden, the caramel is effervescent, and the apples are tender. Tent the crisp with foil if the topping is browning too shortly throughout baking.

• Let the crisp relaxation for 10 minutes earlier than serving. Serve heat with vanilla ice cream and additional caramel sauce, if desired.

Apples: my favourite apples to make use of on this crisp are honeycrisp or cosmic crisp apples. If utilizing one other selection, chances are you’ll want to extend or lower the caramel sauce within the apple filling to compensate for the style/sweetness of the apples.
Caramel Sauce: do-it-yourself or retailer purchased caramel sauce can be utilized. My favourite retailer purchased model is Dealer Joe’s caramel sauce, however any model will work so long as you want the flavour of it. Search for a caramel sauce that’s thick however pourable as an alternative of skinny and runny. In case you purchase a 10- or 12-ounce jar of caramel, you’ll have additional to drizzle over the crisp when serving, if desired.
My go-to do-it-yourself recipes are this 10-minute caramel sauce and this divine caramel sauce (which requires a bit extra time). 

Course: Dessert

Delicacies: American

Technique: Bake

Serving: 1 serving (about 1 1/2 cups of apple crisp), Energy: 464kcal, Carbohydrates: 75g, Protein: 4g, Fats: 18g, Saturated Fats: 11g, Ldl cholesterol: 46mg, Sodium: 195mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 48g

Recipe Supply: from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe (impressed by a good friend from church, Kristen J., who made one thing comparable for my youngsters at a youth exercise, they usually got here house raving!)