#APPLE CRISP WITHOUT OATS FREE#

I used Haralson apples here, but there are so many great baking apples out there that you should use whatever you like. It’s good to make the topping to let it the flavors meld before you start on the apples.Īs for the apples, any baking apples work well. The topping just has to bring in some complementary flavors and textures here.

#APPLE CRISP WITHOUT OATS FREE#

You can taste and throw in a bit of a different spice, adjust the sugar, swap in a gluten free flour, skip the nuts and it will all still pretty much work. It’s just a dump-and-stir kind of process that doesn’t require any advanced knowledge.Īnd unlike the kind of baking that requires precision for, say rising appropriately or having structural integrity, making a crisp is more like cooking. And then in the background there’s a hint of cardamom and a whisper of coriander which take us somewhere into chai flavor territory.īut the great thing about a crisp topping is that there’s hardly any work involved. There’s the expected cinnamon, of course, but there’s also a nice bit of ground ginger which plays nicely with the apples. There’s a stick of melted butter, which you can brown if you like to play up the toasty, nutty flavors going on.Īnd then there’s a lovely mix of warm baking spices. Not that there’s anything wrong with oats, but sometimes I think a simple streusel-like, big crumb texture is nice to have. There’s flour and brown sugar and pecans-and no oats in sight. I am forever playing around with crisp and crumble toppings (there’s an oatmeal cookie-like topping on this strawberry rhubarb crisp, a hearty sprinkle of walnuts and cardamom in this raspberry plum crisp, orange and vanilla notes in this rhubarb crumble), but the topping on this apple crisp is an especially good one. It’s not flashy or particularly stylish, but when there’s a chill in the air it’s the first thing I reach for.Įveryone should have an apple crisp recipe or two in their back pocket, ready to pull out when autumn arrives.

It’s a dessert that’s like my favorite well-worn hoodie. It’s tough to beat apple crisp for a low effort dessert that’s pure comfort.

Apple crisp without oats