This rustic homemade apple crumble recipe combines fresh apples with the warm flavours of cinnamon and cloves, topped with a crispy crumble made from oats, all purpose flour, and brown sugar. This easy dessert makes a delicious dessert on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table, or served up pretty much any day of the week in the fall and winter months!
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Like most basic white chicks, fall is my favourite time of year. I love the crisp fall air and crunchy leaves underfoot. I love the earthy reds, oranges and browns that mix with the evergreens here in the Pacific Northwest. I love the cozy glow of candles as the nights get darker, and the warm scent of pumpkin spice that seems to infiltrate life at this time of year. And I love apple season.
Ever since we moved to our old place with the big ol’ apple tree where we first started homesteading, fresh apples have become a fall treat that we eagerly await each year. I hardly ever buy them from the store anymore, and would rather wait until the abundance of apples in the fall to enjoy them fresh, preserve them and bake them into all sorts of delicious apple recipes.
Applesauce was the very first thing I ever canned, and it’s a standby every year!
But I also love to enjoy apples while they’re in season, because there’s really no better time than fall to combine flavours like apple, cinnamon and cloves into all sorts of sweet treats.
By far my favourite apple recipe of all time is this humble but impressive rustic homemade apple crumble recipe. Aside from the time it takes to peel and slice the fresh apples, the rest takes just minutes to prepare and less than an hour of bake time. It’s the perfect way to celebrate apple season in just a few simple steps, no matter what kind of apples you have access to.
The Gravenstein apple tree at our old place has been on the property for roughly 100 years or more. A couple winters ago, the snow pack was so heavy that the largest two branches broke off the tree. The owners had the tree filled with concrete in hopes of preserving what remained. This year it rebounded and gave us lots of apples. Although not nearly as many as we got a couple years ago when the tree was three times its current size!
This wonderful recipe is always a crowd pleaser and goes well with dinner any night of the week, or for any special occasion. It’s my go-to quintessential fall dessert for Thanksgiving, and even for Christmas dinner (in addition to this divine no-bake whipped pumpkin pie), and Ryan and I even shared some on our anniversary this year after doing dinner at home for the first time. (We had steak and mushrooms with beet greens and garlic out of our garden, by the way, and it was absolutely delish).
But the coup de grâce was definitely the rustic apple crumble skillet that we baked up with our first batch of fresh apples from our tree this year. And it was extra special, not just because it was our 4-year anniversary (woot woot!) but also because this is our last year enjoying the fruits of that tree.
While we’re still transitioning to our new house, we’re saying goodbye to that old apple tree this year and inheriting a hazelnut tree instead! I’m absolutely LOVING our new place, but I will definitely miss the apple tree:(
Hazelnuts are getting ready to fall off the tree at our new house!
Whether you have a tree full of crisp apples on your own property or you buy your fresh apples from the farmers market, now is the time to gather them and turn them into all sorts of apple desserts and yummy treats that will sustain you and your family now and in the months to come.
Whatever you do with your apples this season, be sure to put this easy apple crumble recipe on your fall menu. Then put on your sweater, sip a chai latte and enjoy all the comforts of the best season of the year:)
Happy fall y’all, and happy apple season!
Rustic Apple Crumble Recipe
Ingredients
For the Filling
- 2 pounds of fresh apples, peeled and sliced
- 1 tbsp. all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
- 2 tbsp. lemon juice
For the Crumble Topping
- 1 cup quick oats
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Combine all ingredients for filling in a large bowl. Stir until well-combined. Spoon spiced apple filling into a baking dish, pie plate or cast iron pan.
- Combine dry ingredients for crumble topping in a large bowl. Stir in melted butter and mix well to combine. Crumble topping should be a little bit clumpy from the addition of the melted butter, and just slightly moist throughout.
- Spread crumble mix evenly over spiced apple filling. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the crumble topping is golden brown, and enjoy warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream:)
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