The GüdDish Apple Crisp

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Apple Crisp. The GüdDish.

Serves 8–10 · 20–25 min prep · 65–80 min total · 4 steps

Ingredients

Ingredients for Apple Crisp

Topping

  • 1/3 cup unsalted butter, cold and cubed
  • 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Filling

  • 6 medium apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Bowl

What the best recipes taught us

  • Mix the cold butter into the oats and flour with your fingers until you have clumps, then scatter it on the apples. If you pack the topping down, it will come out denser.
  • Bake until the topping is golden brown and the juices bubble at the edges. If the crisp is underdone, the topping will be soggy and the apples will taste watery.

Method

  1. 1
    Greased empty 9 by 13 baking dish

    Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 by 13 inch baking dish.

  2. 2
    Peeled apple slices tossed with sugar in the baking dish
    6 mediumapples
    1tbsfresh lemon juice
    1/2cgranulated sugar
    1tspground cinnamon
    1/4tspground nutmeg
    1tspvanilla extract

    Peel, core, and slice the apples. Add them to a large bowl.

    Toss with the lemon juice.

    Toss with the granulated sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in the vanilla.

    Spread the apples in an even layer in the baking dish.

  3. 3
    Oat pecan streusel scattered over the apples
    3/4cold-fashioned rolled oats
    2/3call-purpose flour
    1/2cpacked brown sugar
    1/3cunsalted butter, cold and cubed
    1/2tspkosher salt
    1/2cchopped pecans

    In a medium bowl, stir together the oats, flour, and brown sugar with the salt.

    Add the cold butter. Mix with your fingers until you have clumps and no dry flour remains.

    Stir in the pecans.

    Scatter the topping evenly over the apples. Do not pack it down.

  4. 4
    Baked apple crisp in the baking dish, golden topping bubbling at the edges
    vanilla ice cream

    Bake until the topping is deep golden and the fruit is bubbling at the edges, 40 to 50 minutes.

    Rest 10 to 15 minutes so the juices thicken.

    Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.