Treat your family with this perfect comfort-food dessert for fall! Wholesome oats, apple juice, and date paste make a crumbly topping for your favorite apples, perfectly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Serve it warm with a generous scoop of your favorite plant-based nice cream.
Ingredients:
4 cups apples, peeled, cored, and diced or thinly sliced (1/8 inch)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon oat flour
¼ teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
¼ cup raisins
2 tablespoons apple juice, unsweetened
Topping Ingredients:
1½ cups rolled oats
¼ cup oat flour or almond flour
2 teaspoons apple pie spice
¼ teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
5 tablespoons apple juice, unsweetened
¼ cup Date Paste (See Date Paste recipe on next page)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. For the filling: In a large mixing bowl, combine the apples, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, oat flour, vanilla powder, raisins, and apple juice. Stir until well-combined. Place in a 9-inch round or 8-inch square baking dish.
3. For the topping: In a medium-size bowl, combine the rolled oats, oat flour (or almond flour), apple pie spice, vanilla powder or vanilla extract, apple juice, and date paste. Using a fork, mix until well-combined. Spread topping evenly over the apple mix in the baking dish. It will be lumpy; that’s what we want, so it will get crispy.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes until the apples are cooked through and it’s lightly browned on top.
Chef’s Notes:
I like to use a combination of Granny Smith and Honeycrisp apples. This is especially good topped with nice cream; our favorite is made using frozen bananas and frozen mango, blended using either our Vitamix blender, food processor, or Champion juicer. Dust with a little ground cinnamon for the finishing touch.