Whether it’s a chilly day or blazingly hot, fruit crisps are just always delicious. These tasty and healthy treats are adored by many and with good reason: they are full of flavor. Usually, fruit crisps are made in the oven, but if you’ve got a slow cooker in your kitchen somewhere, you can use it to cook a delicious fruit crisp as well.
This recipe is based on apples, cinnamon, and walnuts, which makes for a great and crunchy treat you definitely have to try for yourself.
What you’ll need
- 5 large apples [$4.00]
- 1 cup chopped walnuts [$2.35]
- ½ cup of granulated sugar [$0.25]
- ½ cup of all-purpose flour [$0.35]
- ½ cup of light brown sugar [$0.40]
- ½ cup of white sugar [$0.25]
- ½ cup of butter [$0.50]
- Zest of a lemon [$0.69]
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch [$0.10]
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon [$0.25]
- ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon [$0.12]
- ½ teaspoon of nutmeg [$0.10]
- 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg [$0.05]
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt
A pretty hefty list of ingredients, but we’ll use most of it to spice things up. Preparation roughly takes about 30 minutes, while the cooking time is 4 hours on low or 2 hours on high. On average, this recipe only costs $1.15 per serving. This apple fruit crisp isn’t only delicious, but is fairly inexpensive as well!
Cooking instructions
We’ll have to create an apple mixture and a separate topping for this slow cooker recipe. Take the flour, light brown sugar, white sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg and salt and stir them well in a medium-sized bowl. After you get a well-blended mixture, add the butter after you chop it into small dices. Feel free to get into the mixture with your fingers until this topping has a few coarse crumbs and is more consistent. Add the chopped walnuts as well.
Take another small bowl and whisk in the granulated sugar, lemon zest, the cornstarch, nutmeg, and cinnamon. This’ll be our dry seasoning for the apples in the slow cooker.
Peel, core, and dice all of the apples into smaller cubs. Throw them in your slow cooker and add the dry seasoning we just whisked together. Add the lemon juice too and stir well.
Now that the apples are in the slow cooker, grab the walnut topping and cover the apple dices evenly.
Set the slow cooker on low for four hours, or if you’re in a hurry, two hours on the maximum setting. After this initial cooking period, open the lid a little bit and let it cook until the top layer of the mixture has started to crisp.
When the crisp starts to form, this delicious apple mix is ready to serve! Tip: serve with some vanilla ice, as it complements the fruit crisp perfectly!
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