Warm apple crumble for weeknights — Grandma's apple crumble, apple crumble bake, Movie Night Apple Crumble, easy apple crumble — dessert with what's on hand.
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Nothing better than ice cream served with a warm piece of apple crumble!
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Open in Pepper →Apple crumble is the dessert you can make without a plan. A few apples on the counter, butter, brown sugar, and oats, and the whole house smells like fall by the time dinner dishes are done.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when company's coming on short notice, when the apples in the bowl are starting to go soft, or on a Friday night when everybody wants something warm in front of a movie.
Every recipe here is a real apple crumble someone bakes at home — Grandma's apple crumble with its oatmeal and brown sugar topping, a Crisp Apple Crumble with lemon juice and salted butter, an oat and walnut apple crumble, and an easy apple crumble that starts with canned pie filling and refrigerated cinnamon rolls.
Mix your apple varieties
Use half tart baking apples and half sweet ones like honeycrisp so the filling holds its shape instead of turning to sauce.
Toss apples with lemon
A tablespoon of fresh lemon juice over the sliced apples keeps them from browning and cuts the sweetness of the topping.
Work the butter in cold
Rub cold butter into the flour, oats, and brown sugar with your fingers until it clumps like wet sand — that's what makes it crumbly, not greasy.
Let it rest before serving
Give the crumble 15 to 20 minutes out of the oven so the juices thicken and the topping crisps up instead of sliding off.