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
Donna Shears
Made this for dinner tonight. May have needed a moister Apple. I used MacIntosh. Smelled great and tasted great with Dream Whip.