Sunday Night's Dessert: Apple Crunch

This was so yummy, especially with vanilla ice cream! I found this over at Good Things Catered, another one of my favorite food blogs. I didn't have an 8x8 casserole dish like the recipe said to use, so I just used my oval 2 1/2 qt dish. It still turned out great, but since the dish was longer, there was more space to cover with the topping, making it thin. The topping is the best part, in my opinion, so it would have been nice to have a thicker layer.

This was pretty easy to make...peeling and chopping the apples took me the longest. I also didn't have a pasty blender, so I used our Mix 'N Chop from Pampered Chef and then finished with a fork. Might have taken a little bit longer, but it worked.

(sorry for the flash picture..it was too late for good lighting!)

Apple Crunch

(Source: Good Things Catered)

4 large apples

1/2 c. oats

1/2 c. packed brown sugar

1/4 c. whole wheat flour

4 Tbsp butter, cold

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and spray an 8x8 baking dish with baking spray.

Peel, core, and dice apples into 1/2-inch pieces. Spread apples evenly in baking dish.

In medium bowl, combine oats, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Cut butter into small pieces and add to dry ingredients along with the vanilla. With pastry blender, cut butter into dry ingredients until all butter is about the size of a small pea. Sprinkle this mixture evenly over apples.

Place baking dish in oven and bake for 55-60 minutes or until apples have cooked down and begun to caramelize. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes before serving.