Caramel Apple Crisp
A delicious autumn dessert featuring tender baking apples topped with a crunchy almond streusel and drizzled with homemade caramel sauce. The combination of Golden Delicious, Gala, or Crispin apples creates the perfect balance of sweet and tart flavors.
Ingredients
- •1 cup all-purpose flour
- •6 tablespoons sugar
- •¾ stick unsalted butter
- •¼ teaspoon salt
- •½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- •⅛ teaspoon pure almond extract
- •½ cup sliced almonds
- •⅔ cup sugar
- •¼ cup unsweetened apple juice
- •3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •⅛ teaspoon salt
- •4 pounds baking apples
- •2 quart baking dish
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle. Butter baking dish
5 min
- 2.
Pulse together flour, sugar, butter, salt, and extracts in a food processor until some large clumps form.
5 min
- 3.
Set aside 1/4 cup for filling and transfer remaining topping to a bowl. Stir in almonds.
3 min
- 4.
Cook sugar in a dry 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, undisturbed, until it begins to melt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until sugar is melted into a deep-golden caramel.
10 min
- 5.
Remove from heat and carefully add apple juice, butter, and salt (caramel will harden and steam vigorously). Cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until caramel is dissolved.
8 min
- 6.
Put apples in a large bowl and toss with reserved topping mixture and caramel, then spread in baking dish. (Dish will be very full.)
5 min
- 7.
Scatter clumps of topping over apples, squeezing small handfuls of topping into clumps when necessary.
5 min
- 8.
Bake until apples are tender and top is golden and crisp, about 1 hour. Cool to warm or room temperature.
60 min
