Gluten Free & God Seeking: A Potluck Favorite - Old Fashioned GF Apple Crumble

Thursday, December 6, 2018

A Potluck Favorite - Old Fashioned GF Apple Crumble

I like making apple crisps more than an apple pie. Probably because I don't have to fuss with a crust, and I can make it without peeling the apple! That's a big time saver. In the past month I've been trying to make a dent in the piles of apples I have everywhere. from the neighbors I've been even giving apples to friends, and this recipe comes from one that a friend used to make for a church potluck. I couldn't eat it because she used regular flour. I never made a crisp that with flour in the topping. Her dessert got so many rave reviews, I asked her for the recipe because I wanted to make it with gf flour and see how it came out! I've made it twice so far.
I learned from a website that the difference between a crisp and a crumble is the use of flour so it becomes more like a streusel topping. You can opt to use a bit of oatmeal if you like. The pan below is half of the recipe.

Gluten Free Apple Crumble

1. Prepare apples:
(1) Cut up enough sliced apples to fill a 9 x 13 pan a little over 3/4ths full--about 8-10 cups.
(2) Add 1/3 cup of brown sugar, a few tablespoons tapioca starch, 1 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp. nutmeg and stir to coat all the apples.

2. Prepare topping - In a medium-sized bowl put:
(1) 1/4 cup each sorghum flour, rice flour, fava, and tapioca flour, 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp. nutmeg.
(2) Melt 1/3 cup of butter and stir into the flour/oat mixture. (My apple crisp calls for 1/2 cup of butter, so you can always add some more. (3) Optional: Chop 1/2 cup of walnuts.
(4) Stir until combined. Put topping evenly over the top of the apples.

3. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

More Desserts with Fruit from this website:

Sensational Gluten Free Strawberry Shortcake (From the back of Costco's organic sugar)