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This apple pumpkin crisp is one of my favorite warm and cozy fall desserts. It’s a pumpkin spin on classic apple crisp with pumpkin puree, freshly sliced apples, and a buttery pumpkin spice and cinnamon oat topping. It’s absolute perfection and incredible paired with your favorite vanilla ice cream or even yogurt.
Why you’ll love this one
This delicious crisp recipe is perfect for the fall time of year, your Thanksgiving menu, holiday gatherings, and it’s a great way to use your bag of apples from your favorite apple orchard. If you love this, you’ll love my Berry Crumble too!
There is truly nothing better than an apple crisp paired with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, but this pumpkin apple crisp with a delicious buttery crumble topping is one of my favorites for a few reasons.
About This Recipe
So many reasons to love this one!
- It’s easy! This easy dessert is super simple to put together, and really forgiving too. Even if you don’t measure perfectly, it will still turn out great because the flavor combination is so good.
- Healthier ingredients. It uses some healthier ingredients like whole wheat pastry flour and a bit less sugar than traditional crisp recipes.
- A holiday favorite. This is one of my favorites to make at Thanksgiving and Christmas with a BIG scoop of vanilla ice cream. The best.
- Warm and cozy vibes. There’s just nothing better than a warm apple crisp baking in the oven. Your whole house smells amazing. Is there anything better than the warm aromas of pumpkin, apple and cinnamon filling your house?
The best part is that it’s the perfect dessert for both pumpkin lovers and apple lovers- win win! You’ve gotta try my Apple Blueberry Crumble next too.
Ingredients
- Apples: The best apples to use are Macintosh, Cortland, or Honeycrisp in my opinion- but you can use just about any apple you can find!
- Pumpkin puree: Make sure to grab pumpkin puree and not pumpkin pie filling.
- White whole pastry flour: I love using whole wheat pastry flour or white whole wheat flour in recipes to add a bit more nutrition, and you truly won’t notice a difference!
- Rolled oats: Rolled oats are a classic crisp ingredient and they’re a great source of soluble fiber, which is always an added perk in any dessert.
- Pecans: You can also use walnuts or almonds. The toasted nutty flavor that they add to the crisp topping is just absolute perfection.
- Maple syrup and brown sugar: You can use honey instead if you don’t have maple syrup, but the apple maple syrup combination is truly the best to harness that fall flavor.
- Butter: For that golden brown, delicious crumbly topping.
- Vanilla extract: You can use any vanilla extract or vanilla paste that you have on hand.
- Lemon juice: A little bit of lemon juice adds just the right amount of acidity to bring out the sweetness in the apple pumpkin mixture.
- Pumpkin spice and cinnamon: A must for pumpkin treats.
- Salt: Just a pinch of salt brings out all the yummy sweet flavors of this crisp.
How To Make Pumpkin Apple Crisp
- Make the crisp topping. Add all topping ingredients except butter in a small bowl and combine thoroughly. Add butter pieces to the oat mixture and mix well using your hands, until the mixture is crumbly and fully mixed.
- Start the filling. In a large bowl add apples, maple syrup, pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and spices.
- Mix. Mix filling ingredients until completely combined and all apples are evenly coated.
- Add to baking dish. Transfer apple mixture to the baking dish.
- Top. Add the crumble topping to the top of the apples in an even layer.
- Bake. Bake at 350 degrees for about 35-40 minutes until apples are bubbling and easily pierced with a fork and crumble topping is golden brown. Enjoy with your favorite vanilla ice cream!
Recipe Tips & Notes
- Slice your apples thinly and evenly. To make things even easier you can use a mandoline slicer.
- Prefer the skins on your apples? You can keep them on if you like to, just keep in mind that it will add a different texture to the dessert.
- To bring out the deepest, most delicious flavor, be sure to bake your crisp for long enough. I find the sweet spot for baking time to be between 35 and 45 minutes. The apples should be bubbly and the crisp topping will be golden brown.
- Don’t over-brown the topping. If you’re finding that the topping is browning too quickly, cover with aluminum foil while baking.
- How to serve– Serve this delicious fall dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, frozen yogurt, or Greek yogurt. You can even serve with whipped cream or caramel sauce.
- How to store- Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Reheat in the air fryer (in a silicone air fryer liner) or oven if you want to topping to re-crisp.
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Apple Pumpkin Crisp
Ingredients
Filling
- 5-6 large apple, peeled and sliced very thin
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Topping
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup cold butter, diced
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a large baking dish or coat with butter.
- In a large bowl, make the filling. Combine apples, maple syrup, pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and spices.
- Next, make the topping. Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, and salt. Next, add butter pieces and mix well using your hands, until the mixture is crumbly.
- Top your apples with the oat topping!
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes, depending on how crisp or soft you like your apples. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated and should only be used as an estimate.
I haven’t tried this. Wondering if I could put this mixture in a pie shell and bake it that way?
Cat
I haven’t tried but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work 🙂
What size baking dish works? Saying large not helpful. Can you say the quart size to use please? Thanks!
I like to use a 9×9″ baking dish which typically holds about 2.5 quarts.
One more question – could I split this all up in individual ramekins and bake that way instead? Thanks!
This was AMAZING. The pumpkin addition was genius. I added fresh cranberries – cooked them partially first with a little monkfruit sugar and mixed it in with the apple mixture.
Yay! So glad you loved! Adding cranberries sounds absolutely delicious!
This recipe is amazing and everyone loves it. I tend to add additional ingredients and each time has been delicious
Can you provide the nutrition information. Thanks!!