My Most Requested Fall Recipe
I mentioned the other day on social media that I’d just taken a pan of peanut butter apple crisp out of the oven.
My pages blew up with requests for the recipe.
So, I’m sharing it here today. It really does receive rave reviews every time. It is a recipe I made up to please my boys. And now their friends beg me to make it too.
First—the secrets—you MUST use a good, tart cooking apple. Granny Smith works well. Or Golden Delicious. Or Cortland. But the BEST are…..
Northern Spies!!!!
I found them at my local farmer’s market on Saturday. They really are the best for baking. “Spies for pies” my mom always said. ;-)
Second secret? You must use extra-chunky peanut butter. The chunkiest you can find! Natural style is my fav but any kind works as long as it is chunky.
Now for the recipe.
Peanut-Butter Apple Crisp
8-10 Spy or other tart cooking apples
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan with cooking spray. Peel and slice enough apples to fill the pan. Sprinkle with lemon juice and salt. Mix together flour and sugar and shake over the top of apples. Toss gently.
For the topping, mix:
1 stick real butter, softened
1 ½ cups chunky peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups sugar
3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cups rolled oats (not quick-cooking).
Topping should hold together in clumps when pressed in your fist and not be too sticky. If it is, add a little more flour.
Sprinkle over the top and bake at 375 degrees for about 25-30 minutes until apples are tender and topping is lightly golden. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. FABULOUS!!!!!
I love apple crisp , just wish I had a cookbook by you!
looking forward to trying this
Must try this! Thanks for the recipe!
This looks delicious. I hadn’t heard the spies for pies. I don’t see spies in the store. I’ll have to go to an orchard next fall,
This looks and sounds amazing. You should write a cookbook.
Wow! What a perfect treat to serve your family on a cool fall evening. Your recipes seem to speak right to the body AND soul.
Wish you had a cookbook
yum! thanks for sharing Karen!
My husband would love this !! You must be an amazing cook. Everyone around you is so blessed and must be so full !
A cookbook must be in the works! :)
I follow you in social media and your post about cooking look so delicious. Like I want to learn how to cook from you.
Yum!!! Can’t wait to try!
Such a natural sweet treat!! I’ll be sure to try this one!
(drooooooooooooooooooooooool) Sweet mother of mercy, this sounds YUMMY IN MY TUMMY!!!
I really wish you would just write a cookbook already!!!! I would love to have all these recipes in ine place :)
Peanut Butter Apple Crisp…. oh my!!! Can’t wait to make this!
This sounds delicious! I love apples & peanut butter together. Yum!
Fall is such a fun time to bake. Please share a cookbook with us so we can all enjoy the yummy foods we see you making.
Your recipes are always a hit around my house! Can’t wait to try this one!!
??? why have I never thought of adding PB to Apple crisp? This is brilliant!
I love your recipes! A cookbook on the horizon? I’d buy one!
I love apples and have never thought of adding peanut butter to a dish like this … even though I love sliced apples and peanut butter. Thanks for sharing it! :)
Your recipes always make me hungry!
I’m always on the hunt for good ape recipies!
WOW, this looks fantastic. Can’t wait to try it. I wish I had a cookbook by you!!
Karen-my family and I are on vacation. I took your recipe with me so I could make it for them. It was a huge success! They loved it! It was very good cold for breakfast this morning too!! Thank you for sharing it. I will be making this many more times!