Apple Crisp Recipe For A Great Fall Desert

During the summer we prefer cool deserts, but as fall and winter approach, our taste buds want something warm from the oven. One easy yet tasty fall desert to serve warm and complete a mean is an apple crisp. An apple crisp recipe us usually easy enough that even beginning cooks can follow the directions.

An apple crisp is a part of many very simple but delicious baked deserts that use fresh fruit and a pastry topping. Other deserts of the same style that you may wish to check out included Pandowdies, Brown Bettys, Grunts, Crumbles and Cobblers. These deserts make great comfort foods that are hard to resist. While a cobbler uses dough topping that is much like a biscuit, an apple crisp uses a mixture that is more like a streusel. The topping for apple crisp normally contains sugar, flour and butter along with oatmeal and nuts.

When the desert is done and you open your oven, you will immediately see why this desert is called an apple crisp.

One of the good things about apple crisps is that they are the perfect desert for when the apples begin to get ripe on the trees. Fresh apples make the best apple crisps. One of the best choices is the Granny Smith apple that has a green skin and is very tart. Ice cream makes a wonderful topping for a warm apple crisp. If you want your desert to have extra flavor and color, try adding berries such as raspberries or cranberries to the apple crisp. For the English version, blackberries are a favorite addition.

It is important that you choose old fashioned rolled oats rather than the quick cooking oatmeal. The old fashioned rolled oats are thicker and hold up better during the baking process. This gives a better texture to your finished apple crisp. It also provides a nuttier flavor to the finished product.

To prepare oats into oatmeal, the oats are steamed and rolled flat. Quick cooking oats are cut before the process begins and rolled thinner to cook more quickly. Oatmeal has been shown to help to lower cholesterol. When added with the apples, it is a good way to get fiber into your system.

For an easy apple crisp, start by greasing a 9×12 inch cake pan. Peel, core and slice 4 medium sized Granny Smith apples. The slices should be thin. Add the apple slices to the baking pan and top with the following apple crisp topping.

The topping is made by combining 3/4 cups of brown sugar with 1/2 cups each of flour and oatmeal. Add 1/3 cup of margarine or butter an 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix the topping well and crumble over the apples.

The apple crisp should bake for half an hour in a 375 degree oven that has been preheated or until the apples are tender.

Serve the apple crisp warm out of the oven topped with ice cream. Leftovers (if there are any) can be warned for about a minute and topped with ice cream.

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