I love Fall – leaves are scattered across the sidewalk and the air is slightly brisk. Apples are in season and there are so many varieties to choose from. Many of them are begging to be turned into a delicious Apple Crisp. Can you really make a healthy version of Apple Crisp – oh yes you can! Wholesome oats, apple juice and date paste makes a crumbly topping for your favorite apples, perfectly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Serve it up piping hot with a generous scoop of your favorite plant based nice cream. The perfect comfort food dessert for fall, but of course you can make this all year long!
This has quickly become a family favorite! I am getting requests for it weekly.
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Believe it or not this recipe is oil free, butter free and refined sugar free! It is sweetened with all natural fruit and fruit juice. Our little Sweet Pea (our oldest grandchild) told me I can bring Apple Oat Crisp to her house all the days. Meaning any day I go there I have her permission to bring her some Apple Oat Crisp. She loves this dessert and it is healthy enough to be a part of her breakfast!
We enjoy topping our Apple Oat Crisp with Banana Nice Cream. This one was a Banana – Mango Nice Cream.
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If you assemble all of your ingredients before you start cooking it makes it so much easier to follow the recipe.
The Vidalia Chop Wizard makes perfect uniform apple pieces. It is easy to use and makes quick work of cutting the apples. I use mine all the time. You could sub fresh peaches for the apples to make a Peach Crisp!
Get your children or your grandchildren involved helping to make this recipe. They can enjoy making it and then eating it!
Apple Oat Crisp Vegan – Gluten Free
Equipment
- Oven, Pie Plate
Ingredients
Filling
- 4 cups apples, peeled, cored, diced or thinly sliced 1/8 inch I use 2 Granny Smith & 2 Honey Crisp apples (Sub peaches for a peach crisp)
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon oat flour
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
- ¼ cup raisins
- 2 Tablespoons apple juice unsweetened
Topping
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats, certified gluten free for those who are GF
- ¼ cup almond flour or oat flour certified GF oat flour for those who are GF
- 2 teaspoons Apple Pie Spice
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
- 5 Tablespoons Apple Juice unsweetened
- ¼ cup date paste *see recipe below
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- For the filling in a large mixing bowl combine the apples, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, oat flour, vanilla powder, raisins and apple juice stir until well combined. Place in a 9-inch round or square baking dish.
- For the topping, in a medium size bowl combine the rolled oats, oat flour (or almond flour) apple pie spice, vanilla powder or vanilla extract, apple juice and date paste using a fork mix until well combined. Spread it evenly over the apples in the baking dish. It will be lumpy -that’s what we want so it will get crispy.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 30-35 minutes until lightly browned on top and the apples are cooked through.
- Serving suggestion, serve warm with a scoop of your favorite nice cream. We like using frozen bananas and frozen mango processed in either our Vitamix blender, food processor or Champion Juicer. Give it a little dusting of ground cinnamon for the finishing touch.
Notes
Date Paste
Equipment
- Food Processor or High Powered Blender
Ingredients
- 1 pound dates, pitted
- boiling water
Instructions
- Pit the dates and place them in a bowl, cover with boiling water and let soak for at least 30 minutes to an hour to soften dates. How long to soak will depend on how moist the dates are. The dryer they are the more soaking time they will need.
- Drain dates reserving soaking water.
- Place soaked dates in the work bowl of a food processor fitted with the S blade, or in high speed blender, add 1 cup of the reserved soaking water and process until smooth., stopping to scrape down the sides when needed. Add more water if it needs to be thinner.
Notes
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Works perfectly as written. I also enjoy the flavor profile when adapted to include organic dried figs and prunes.
Thank you. Your additions sound delicious!
Which kind of cinnamon did you use? Bakers, Ceylon, etc.???
This was so good!!! I made it for a lunch with a couple of friends. My question is, in the video you said to bake @ 375 degrees, but in the recipe it says 350 degrees, so which is correct? I baked @ 350 according to the printed recipe, but it took longer than 35 minutes for the apples to be done.
Thanks for all the great recipes! I was amazed at how easy it was to make date paste.
Hi Lin I m so glad you liked this recipe. I did bake it at 375 in the video but it can sometimes get too done on top of the crisp. So I tried baking it at 350 and the crisp didn’t burn at that temperature. I have found that the apples need to be diced quite small for them to cook all the way through. Everyone’s ovens are different and that can affect the baking the time also how small the apples are cut will vary the length of time to bake them until tender.
Happy Cooking,
Tami
The Apple Pie Crisp is amazing! I would give it more than 5 stars if I could! I forgot to Mark the stars in my comment above asking about baking temperature.
Thank you so much!
Great recipe – and very versatile. I used pears (because I had so many on a tree in my backyard) and used fig paste instead of date because I had it on hand. I love the texture of the topping. Thanks for sharing your excellent recipes.
Hi Danette,
Your pear version sounds delightful! Thank you for sharing – fig paste sounds scrumptious!
Happy healthy cooking,
Tami
Sounds yummy!! Can this be made in an air fryer? Also, will Ambrosia or Gala apples be good for this?
Hi Carol, I think the air fryer would burn the topping before the apples would be cooked all the way. Both Ambrosia and Gala apples should work really well.
Happy Baking!
This is the best & easiest apple crisp I have made! Thank you, Tami! Before I became a wfpb vegan apple crisp was my favorite dessert! This is the 1st that is close to what I made & loved! I love this!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much! This makes me very happy!
I have been looking all over for a recipe like this. It’s doable and delicious. But do you have the recipe’s nutrition handy?
Hi Anne, I don’t calculate the nutritional information but you can use one of the free on line calorie counters to get those values. I hope you enjoy the recipe.