Name: Baked Apples With Crumble Topping
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ of an apple crumble pie; 4 large Granny Smith apples; juice of ½ lemon; 4 teaspoons of caramel topping; 4 tablespoons of whipped cream topping

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This delicious recipe for baked apples with crumble topping gives us the best of two fall desserts – apple crumble and baked apples.

This dessert recipe starts with whole apples and an apple crumble frozen pie. The pie is deconstructed to use as both a filling and topping for the most delicious baked apples ever!

It’s easy to make, comes together quickly, and is a perfect addition to this year’s Thanksgiving menu

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Ingredients for the baked apple with crumble topping recipe

To make this easy fall apple dessert recipe, you will need the following ingredients:

Ingredients

½ of an apple crumble pie
4 large Granny Smith apples
Juice of ½ lemon
4 teaspoons of caramel topping
4 tablespoons of whipped cream topping

How to make these healthy apple crumble baked apples

This is a semi-homemade dessert. Some of the ingredients are fresh, and some are packaged. This saves loads of time.

Prep steps

Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190°C).
Let the apple crumble pie rest for about 10 minutes on the counter.
Remove the pie from the pie plate and cut it in half.
Return 1/2 of the pie to the pie plate to bake later.
Defrost the half of the pie that you removed until the filling is soft.

Deconstruct the apple pie

In chef’s talk, deconstructing means that you take the foods that are normally combined in the dish, change their forms in some way, and then plate them together in a different way.

What is important is how you put the food elements back together. This recipe does the job beautifully!

Divide the apple crumble topping into two bowls.
You’ll use one now and the other with the pie half you saved for later.
Spoon the apple pie filling into another bowl. Set the these aside.

Preparing the apples for baking

Slice off the tops of 4 Granny Smith apples.
Use a melon baller to core out the center.
Drizzle the apples with lemon juice so they won’t go brown.
Spoon the reserved apple pie filling into the apple center area.

Bake the apples

Place the apples in an oven-proof baking dish.
Bake the filled apples in the preheated oven for 35 minutes, until the apples are starting to get soft.

Add the crumble topping

The apple crumble for the pie I chose is already made. It’s a delicious blend of brown sugar, butter, and flour, all ready to spoon over both the cooked apple pie half and the baked apples. (I used half of it for my apples and saved the other half for the apple pie section that I saved for later.)

Spoon half of the apple crumble mix over the top of the apples.
Return them to the oven for another 5-10 minutes until the crumble has browned.

Heat the caramel sauce

While the crumble is browning, heat the caramel sauce in the microwave.
Spoon the caramel sauce over the baked apples.

Serving the baked apples with crumb topping

This recipe has absolutely everything you love about an apple pie ~ gooey cinnamon apple filling, buttery crumble topping, and a warm caramel topping, all baked inside a delicious fall apple.

This fall dessert features gooey, rich spiced apple pie-filled apples, with a delicious drizzle of caramel.

Add a dollop of whipped topping, and you have a dessert made in apple heaven.

Serve these apple crumble baked apples to your Thanksgiving guests and the platter will be empty before you know it!

More apple recipes for fall

If you love using apples in recipes, try one of these ideas:

Gluten-Free Apple Crumble – Tasty GF apple crisp recipe
Cinnamon Baked Apple Slices – Warm cinnamon apples
Hasselback Baked Apples – Tasty gluten-Free sliced apples recipe

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Admin note: This recipe for stuffed baked apples first appeared on the blog in November 2015. This post has been updated with new photos, a printable recipe card, and a slideshow video of a tasty apple dessert recipe to try.

Yield: 4 baked apples with crumble