Autumn Crisp Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Prepare a glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• Mix apples, pears, raisins, and chia seeds in the baking dish. Drizzle apple cider and maple syrup over the fruit mixture and stir gently to coat.
• Mix oats, wheat germ, brown sugar, flax seed, flour, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Mash butter into the oats mixture with a fork until the mixture is uniform in texture; spread atop the fruit mixture. Cover the dish loosely with aluminum foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top is browned and crisp, 35 to 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Peel and slice apples and pears into buttered dish. Add cranberries, lemon juice, cinnamon and stir. For topping, combine all ingredients except butter and blend. Add softened butter and blend with fingers until blended and coarse. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until bubbly and golden.

Steps:

• Apple Mixture: 5 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored & sliced 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons lemon juice Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
• For the topping: Mix together the flour, oats, sugar and spices in a large bowl.
• Using the large holes of a grater, grate the butter into the bowl.
• Blend until the mixture just begins to come together, being careful not to over mix.
• Toss the apples in a large bowl with the sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Spoon into the baking pan and sprinkle the topping mixture over the fruit. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or until the apples are tender and the topping is browned and crisp.
• Serve warm with a scoop of rich vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• First, make topping by combining flour, oats, brown sugar and spice in a small bowl; drizzle melted butter over and then toss mixture together with a fork.
• Set aside.
• I am a big fan of the pumpkin-pie spice sold by Penzeys, which contains cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, mace and cloves, but you can use any spicing you wish for this--traditional would be to use only cinnamon.
• If your apples are at all tart, you may want to increase the brown sugar in the topping, as well as increase the white sugar mixed in with the apples; it's your call.
• As for the apples to use, I make this dessert a lot in the autumn when I always have lots of fresh macintosh apples around; it's also very good when made with northern spys.
• When topping is made and set aside, preheat oven to 375F and get out an 8-inch square baking pan.
• Peel, core and slice apples to get your 8 cups and place those directly in the baking pan.
• Sprinkle white sugar and juices over, and toss well.
• Sprinkle topping over entire surface of apples.
• Bake in preheated oven for approximately 40 minutes, or until bubbly and the apples are tender (poke with a fork).
• Let cool for a bit before eating; it's good warm or cool.
• I serve it warm, with vanilla ice cream.