Fall is in the air and nothing says autumn like the smell of apples and cinnamon baking in the oven.When I developed this Brown Sugar Apple & Fig Crisp recipe last week, I was planning on visiting friends and wanted to bring something.
My mom always taught me to never come empty handed when being invited to someone’s home, what’s better to bring a gift that is handmade and delicious. That morning I wasn’t sure what to make but I saw a lot of apples on the kitchen counter staring back at me and I think they were talking back at me, saying, eat me, eat me! I wanted to create an apple crisp recipe that had another flavor going on in it so I added dried figs and the end result was scrumptious. When serving this, add ice cream to it and perhaps some caramel sauce bringing this dish to a whole new level.
Brown Sugar Apple & Fig Crisp
Autumn flavors of figs and apples come together in this rustic crisp for those brisk evenings by the fire
Ingredients
- 4 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 4 large Fuji or Honey Crisp apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 15 dried Mission figs, stem trimmed and cut into quarters
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
Topping
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup butter
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 F
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Toss everything but the topping together and pour into a 9 X 13 inch baking dish
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For the topping, combine all the topping ingredients in a large bowl and with a hand mixer blend until you have a pea sized mixture or do the same in a food processor and pulse several times until you achieve the same texture, spread over the apple and fig mixture to the sides of the dish and pat gently until even
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Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and bubbling, about an hour
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