Apple Crisp

Quick Apple Crisp is one of the easiest desserts to bake in a solar oven. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side for a traditional All-American, sure-to-please-everyone dessert. 

Apples are plentiful year around and can be made into delicious desserts. I have an apple peeler that peels, cores, and cuts all at the same time so cutting apples is very quick. If you don’t have an apple peeler, just peel, core, and slice the apples thin. No one will know, or care!, what the apples look like. They will just want to eat the Apple Crisp.

I baked this apple crisp in my granite ware pan in the All American Sun Oven. The time it takes to bake in a solar oven depends on the type of solar oven you are using, the weather, and how focused the oven is to the sun. My Apple Crisp took about 1 1/2 hours to cook on a hot sunny day. The oven temperature was at 325 degrees. 

We couldn’t wait for it to cool so we ate it hot, right out of the oven.  It was delicious.

Quick Apple Crisp

Apple Crisp

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

1 hour 30 mins

Total time

1 hour 50 mins

 

Author: Merry Bevill

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• FILLING
• 2 cups dry apples, peeled and sliced
• 2½ cups apple juice (or water)
• 2 TBSP cornstarch
• ¾ cup sugar
• ⅓ tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ⅓ tsp nugmeg
• 2 TBSP lemon juice
• TOPPING:
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• ⅓ tsp baking powder
• ½ cup shortening

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the solar oven while you prepare the ingredients.
2. Mix all of the dry ingredients for the apple crisp in a large dark pan suitable for solar cooking.
3. Add apple juice and lemon juice.
4. Mix well.
5. Cover the pot with a lid and bake in a hot solar oven for about an hours until the apples are soft but not mushy.
6. While the apples are cooking, prepare the topping.
7. Mix the topping ingredients with a fork or pastry blender until well mixed.
8. When the apples are tender, spread the topping over the apples.
9. Return the pan to the hot solar oven. Continue baking for about ½ hour until the topping is brown.

Notes

The time it takes to cook in a solar oven varies depending on the type of solar oven you are using, the weather, and how focused the oven is to the sun.

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