Grandma’s Easy Apple Crisp

Grandma’s Easy Apple Crisp recipe is a traditional apple crisp without oats. The melt-in-your-mouth topping screams cinnamon and butter and will have your family begging for more.

Apple Crisp Without Oats Recipe:

We are in love with this recipe.  Barbara found it in Grandma’s Old Wooden Recipe Box (her most prized possession). It really is a unique recipe because it’s apple crisp with no oats and no brown sugar.  Instead, the topping is a combination of flour, white sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and egg.  Then, to top things off, melted butter is poured over top.

Our Grandma was a phenomenal cook, baker, Grandma, Mom, friend, woman.  And, making and eating this recipe reminds us feel the way we felt when we spent time with her.

Grandma also had another easy apple cobbler type dessert in her recipe box. If you like yours with an oat topping, try our Old-Fashioned Apple Crumble recipe.

How To Make Homemade Apple Crisp without Brown Sugar:

Full recipe for easy apple crisp is at the bottom of this page.

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Peel and slice apples.
3. Arrange apples in a baking dish; top with a mixture of flour, sugar, baking powder, egg, salt and cinnamon.
4. Pour melted butter over top.
5. Bake for approximately 30-40 minutes or until fruit is tender.

Notes About the Best Ever Apple Crisp Recipe:

• You can use a metal 9 x 9 or 8 x 8 inch pan or go old fashioned and use a 1 1/2 or 2 quart Pyrex or Corning Ware dish. Any of those will work.  Just watch the cooking time.  This delicious apple crisp will cook faster in a larger pan because it’s spread thinner.
• Grandma’s original apple crisp recipe says that the sugar can be anywhere from 1/2 to 1 cup in total.  With that being said, use less than the 3/4 cup that we wrote in the recipe if you are watching your sugar or if the type of apple you are using are sweet.  On the flip side, if you are using a tart apple, take up the sugar to 1 cup total.
• This recipe inspired us to make a divine cherry version.  Try it!  A peach version would be good too.
• Should you should peel your apples first before making this crisp? Not necessarily.  If you are in a hurry, then you could leave the peels on; however, this does change the texture of the crisp.  If you have time, go ahead and peel them.

Try Other Fruit Desserts

Love fruit cobblers, crisps and cakes?  Try our Easy Cherry Crisp, Crock Pot Peach Cobbler, Grandma’s Rhubarb Streusel Dessert, Peach Batter Cake and Grandma’s Rhubarb Pie.

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Grandma's Easy Apple Crisp

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

Total Time

50 mins

 

Grandma's Easy Apple Crisp recipe is a traditional, old fashioned apple crisp without oats. The melt-in-your-mouth topping screams cinnamon and butter and will have your family begging for more.  

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apple crisp without oats, Easy Apple Crisp, grandma's easy apple crisp

Servings: 8

Author: Barbara

Ingredients

• 5-6 cups peeled and sliced apples
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 unbeaten egg
• 1/3 cup melted butter

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 9 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. 

2. Arrange peeled and sliced apples in the bottom of the prepared baking dish.

3. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and egg, and mix until blended.

4. Sprinkle mixture over apples; pour melted butter over top.

5. Bake until the fruit is fork tender, approximately 30-40 minutes. 

Recipe Notes

• You can use a metal 9 x 9 or 8 x 8 inch pan or go old fashioned and use a 1 1/2 or 2 quart Pyrex or Corning Ware dish. Any of those will work. Just watch the cooking time. This delicious apple crisp will cook faster in a larger pan because it's spread thinner. 
• Grandma's original apple crisp recipe says that the sugar can be anywhere from 1/2 to 1 cup in total.  With that being said, use less than the 3/4 cup that we wrote in the recipe if you are watching your sugar or if the type of apple you are using are sweet.  On the flip side, if you are using a tart apple, take up the sugar to 1 cup total. 
• This recipe inspired us to make a divine cherry version.  Try it!  A peach version would be good too. 
• Should you should peel your apples first before making this crisp? Not necessarily.  If you are in a hurry, then you could leave the peels on; however, this does change the texture of the crisp.  If you have time, go ahead and peel them.