Crustless Apple Crumble

One night, the family and I were craving an apple pie. Something about warm, fresh-out-of-the-oven apple pie. Soft, flavorful apples wrapped in a flaky crust. Sounds amazing! Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough time to make that happen and I had to improvise.

 

Ideas began flowing. What if we… or what if we…

 

 

I love a traditional apple crisp, but when I mentioned I use oats in my crumble, it was rejected. I will save that for another day, and another post.

 

 

We all love the apples in the crisp, we just struggled to agree on the topping. I was flipping through cookbooks and found a recipe for a crumble. Not having oats was appealing to the household, but it was made with berries. We only had apples. Would it work? Let’s find out!

 

 

I’m here to tell you, it worked! The crumble on apples is so delicious that we’ve made the crumble by itself and sprinkled it on homemade peach ice cream. Again, another recipe for another blog post. For now, let’s focus on the Apple Crumble.

 

 

Super straight forward and easy to make, you can throw this together in a jiffy. If you have a Kitchenaid spiralizer, you can peel, core, and slice the apples even faster. It’s fantastic! Usually, I just like to go old-school and do it all by hand. Reminds me of working with my grandma in the kitchen when I was young. And so does this amazing Apple Crumble.

 

 

Crustless Apple Crumble

 

4-6 apples (I like Pink Lady, but any firm apple works, such as granny or Jazz, etc)

1 ½ Tbs lemon juice

¼ c white sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

2 Tbs butter, chopped into pieces

1 c flour

¼ c white sugar

¼ c brown sugar

8 Tbs butter, chopped into pieces

½ c walnuts or pecans, finely chopped but still pieces (optional)

 

 

Preheat the oven to 375F. Prepare your apples by peeling, coring and slicing them into ¼ inch slices cut in half. Place them in a bowl and add the lemon juice. Mix together to distribute the lemon juice and then add the sugar and cinnamon. Mix together and pour the apples into your baking/casserole dish. Finally, add the 2 Tbs butter pieces to the apples, spreading them around for even distribution during baking.

 

In another bowl, mix together the flour and both sugars. Add the 8 Tbs butter pieces and place in the microwave to melt the butter (30-60 seconds max should do it). Pull it out of the microwave and stir to make the crumble. Finally, add the nuts if desired and mix together. Spread the mix on top of the apples in the casserole dish, making sure the crumble is evenly distributed but still allow for clumps which adds texture.

 

Place the apple crumble in the oven uncovered. Cook for 25-30 minutes. It’s ready when you start to see a slight browning on the crumble and the apples bubble slightly on the sides. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes. Serve with ice cream. Enjoy!