Desserts · Cobblers & crisps

Apple crisp

Name: Apple crisp
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 6 apples apple, peeled, sliced; 1/4 cup granulated sugar; juice of 1/2 lemon; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 cup oatmeal; 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup packed brown sugar; 1/2 cup butter, cold, cubed; 1/4 tsp salt

The lazy cousin of apple pie that most people secretly prefer: cinnamon apples under a buttery oat crumble, no pastry skills required. Fall's most-searched dessert, good all year.

Time: 65 min (20 prep + 45 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 315 kcal
Protein: 3 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

Filling

6 apples apple, peeled, sliced900 g
1/4 cup granulated sugar50 g
juice of 1/2 lemon15 g
2 tsp ground cinnamon4 g

Topping

1 cup oatmeal90 g
1/2 cup all-purpose flour60 g
1/2 cup packed brown sugar100 g
1/2 cup butter, cold, cubed115 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

Toss the apples with the sugar, lemon and cinnamon straight in the baking dish.
Rub the cold butter into the oats, flour, brown sugar and salt until it clumps like wet sand.
Scatter the topping over the apples — clumps and all; the clumps become the best bites.
Bake at 190°C for 40–45 minutes until the juices bubble at the edges and the top is deep golden. Rest 15 minutes; the filling thickens as it cools.

Which apples should I use?

Use apples that fight back — firm and tart. Sweet soft apples collapse into applesauce and take the whole dessert with them.

Alternative

Apple crisp with yogurt oat toppingthe yogurt oat topping27

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

4% of kcal

55% water

13 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

45%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2519 kcal goes into the pot, 1336 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 219 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 219
Protein: (4%); 2 g
Fat: (36%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (61%); 34 g
of which sugar: 22 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sodium: 167 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

More desserts

Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.