Easiest Caramel Apple Crisp
Caramel apple crisp is the easiest dessert ever. Made with wholesome ingredients, including a little molasses to add a rich caramel flavour.
Apple Crisp is one of the simplest desserts going. The ingredients are so simple – and so good: lots of fresh fall apples, flour, rolled oats, butter, a little cinnamon…
We add a little molasses to our apple crisp to give the sauce that forms while it bakes a rich caramel flavour (hence the name Caramel Apple Crisp).
Tips:
- We use a vegetable peeler for our apples. It’s quick and takes only the skin, not some of the flesh as often happens with a paring knife.
- Try combing two or more varieties of apples in your crisp for added flavour and texture.
Easiest Caramel Apple Crisp
Caramel Apple Crisp is one of the simplest desserts going. A little molasses gives the sauce that forms while it bakes a rich caramel flavour.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 10 serving(s) 1x
- Category: Cakes
Ingredients
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Filling:
- 8 medium apples, peeled and sliced
- 1/4 cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp butter
Topping:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, spooned in
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup butter, melted
Instructions
- Place the apples in a deep casserole dish (approx. 8”x10”)
- Toss with molasses, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Dab with tablespoon of butter
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, oats and brown sugar. Pour over the melted butter and stir to combine.
- Spread mixture over apples.
- Bake at 375°F for about 40 minutes, until the apples are soft and the filling is bubbling.
Marcie Mycan
Very yummy, I added nutmeg, ginger and extra cinnamon because I love those spices with apples ! This makes a great breakfast too!
★★★★★
Fay Linn-Ferguson
Loved the flavour of molasses with the apples. It was delicious! Thanks for the recipe.
★★★★★
Jan
This is absolutely my favourite Apple Crisp, and everyone wants me to make it for get togethers. Shared so many times, can’t count..
★★★★★
Leslie
My family loved it.
★★★★★
Allan Stanley
Hi Bridget, we are enjoying all your recipes from Crosby’s. However, recently my wife needed Gallbladder surgery and I am trying to replace regular unsalted butter with the Ghee I have been making at home. Do you have any thoughts on proportions for butter to ghee? (ie: 1 cup of butter equals 1/2 cup of ghee perhaps). Thanks and cheers, Allan
Crosby Molasses
Hi Allan, Because this recipe calls for a full cup of melted butter you could uses 1/4 cup oil and 1/4 cup of gee. You could use a full 1/2 cup of gee but not necessary. When it comes to substituting butter in a recipe, you need to replace the full amount of butter called for with an alternative. I hope this helps.
Pauline M.
The recipe I am seeing only calls for a half cup of melted butter.
Sandra
So simple to make and it tasted great!
★★★★★
Lorie Ann Ann Chapman
I love these recipes but do you have any nutritional information on any of them??
Marie-Pierre Lessard
We are working on it!
Wendy McNeill
Awesome recipe
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Donna Shears
Made this for dinner tonight. May have needed a moister Apple. I used MacIntosh. Smelled great and tasted great with Dream Whip.