Description
The secret ingredient in this apple crisp is Grape Nuts®. This extremely crispy and crunchy breakfast cereal does some amazing things to your basic oatmeal-based fruit crisp topping mixture.
Ingredients
- 5 apples – peeled, cored, quartered, and cut into 1/4-inch slices
- ½ lemon, juiced
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup rolled oats
- ½ cup wheat and barley nugget cereal (such as Grape-Nuts®)
- ½ cup melted butter
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Toss sliced apples with lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Mix flour
- rolled oats
- wheat and barley nugget cereal
- melted butter
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- and 1/4 cup brown sugar together in a large bowl.
- Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- and cinnamon into melted butter until sugar begins to dissolve
- 3 to 4 minutes. Add apples and water; continue cooking and stirring until apples soften and are coated with sauce
- 4 to 5 minutes.
- Pour apples and sugar mixture into a 2 quart baking dish. Sprinkle topping evenly over the apple filling.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the top is browned and the filling is bubbling up around the edges
- 25 to 30 minutes. Cool for 10 to 15 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 22 mins
Total Time: 47 mins
Servings: 8