Grandma’s Old Fashioned Apple Crisp Recipe

Grandma’s Old Fashioned  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:

How do you make apple crisp from scratch?

Follow these simple instructions below, and soon your house will be smelling like fall.

Arrange peeled, sliced apples in a baking dish. Top with a combination of flour, sugar, egg, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Melt butter and pour over top.  Bake in a preheated oven until apples are fork tender.  The full instructions for old fashioned apple crisp recipe can be found below.

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.

Old Fashioned Apple Crisp Recipe Ingredients:

Apples

Flour

Butter

Sugar

Baking Powder

Salt

Cinnamon

Eggs

How do you make apple crisp from scratch?

Full recipe for homemade apple crisp without brown sugar 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.
• Grandma would say to use whatever apples you have on hand for this easy apple crisp recipe. We agree!

Try Other Fruit Desserts

Love fruit cobblers, crisps and cakes? Here’s some more of our favorite old fashioned fruit desserts.

Easy Cherry Crisp

Crock Pot Peach Cobbler

Grandma’s Rhubarb Streusel Dessert

Peach Batter Cake

 Grandma’s Rhubarb Pie

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