Gooey Apple Crisp

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Gooey Apple Crisp

*5 1/2 cups Apples cut into small pieces or slices, use apples of your choice, I used Red Delicious
*3 tablespoons Lemon Juice to a bowl of water

Cut up apples and place in Lemon Water until ready to use and then drain off water and add the following ingredients. Add 2 teaspoons vanilla to drained Apples.

In a bowl mix:

*1/2 cup Sugar
*1 teaspoon Cinnamon
*1 tablespoon Flour

Add the above mixture to the apples with vanilla.

Crust & Topping

*2/3 cup packed Brown Sugar

*3/4 cup Flour

*1 and 1/2 cups Old fashion Oats

*1 and 1/2 cups Quick Oats

*1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon

*1/2-3/4 cup Salted Butter, melted

*Kraft Caramel Bites, handful

Mix together the above dry ingredients together and then add melted butter slowly until desired texture for crust.

In a well-greased/cooking spray 9 x 13 Stone Pan or Glass Pan.

Spread all but 1/2 cup of this mixture for the crust and the 1/2 cup left for the topping. Sprinkle the crust with a handful Caramel Bites.

Layer next with Apple mixture and topping and again with handful Caramel Bites.

Bake in a 350* oven for about 45 minutes

Serves 12 people

Note: This recipe is made to be eaten warm from the oven served with Whipped Topping or Vanilla Ice-Cream. If you refrigerate Apple Crisp it will be difficult to remove from pan.

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Enjoy!

Lindy

Apple Pie Filling

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We had quite a few apples this year on our apple tree and they aren’t the type of apples for making pie filling but I used them any way in this Apple pie filling recipe. The best apples would be cooking apples like firm; Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, Fuji, Gala etc… My apples are the Red Delicious so that is what I used to make this Apple Pie Filling. If you are going to make this you will want to use a good cooking apple for best results.

Apple Pie Filling

Prepare apples:

*4 pounds of Cooking Apples, washed, peeled and sliced, place sliced apples in lemon water so they won’t turn brown use about 3 tablespoons of Lemon Juice per cup of water in bowl.

Melt together:

*1/3-2/3 cup Sugar, I only used 1/3 cup because I used *Red Delicious Apples that are already sweet
*4 tablespoon butter

In a Stock Pot melt butter adding the sugar and then the sliced, drained apples.
Cook just until apples start to get soft about 2 minutes.

Mix in Bowl:

*1/2 cup Cornstarch
*1/2 cup Water
*2 teaspoons Cinnamon
*1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
*1/4 teaspoon of Salt
*2 teaspoons Lemon Juice

After combining the above Cornstarch mixture add to the hot apples and cook just until Cornstarch turns clear, then let the Apple Pie Filling Cool.

You can use it right away in a Apple Pie or I doubled this recipe and put 2 1/2 cups of the Apple Pie Filling to each Freezer bag. I used Gallon sized Bags just because that’s what I had on hand to use.

* If by chance you are like me and want to use up your Red Delicious Apples be aware it will not give you as firm pieces of Apple in your pie filling.

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Enjoy!

Jessica and Lindy