Pampered Chef Apple Crisp with Cake Mix

This easy apple crisp is the best recipe you'll ever eat! With its rich topping and no oats plus a secret ingredient, you'll never make another apple crisp recipe again!

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 40

Total Time 45

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings servings

Calories 231 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

5-7 large apples peeled, cored, and sliced
½ cups butter melted
½ cups pecans or walnuts chopped
1 box yellow cake mix
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice divided

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Arrange apples in a 9x9 or similarly sized round baking dish. (I like to make this in a round dish.) Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of cinnamon over apples and toss to coat.
In a medium bowl, combine butter, nuts, cake mix, sugar, and remaining cinnamon. Mix well, until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over the apples.
Bake at 350ºF for 40 minutes or until crumb is golden brown.
Serve hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Notes

Grace currently has braces and thus cannot eat nuts, so we have to leave them out right now. It's a bummer because I love them.
If you need a gluten-free recipe, you can easily use a gluten-free cake mix and it will come out just fine.
As I said above, this recipe works beautifully with any kind of fruit. Just fill your pan about ½ way with the uncooked fruit of your choice and top with the crisp topping. Cook until the topping is golden brown and starting to get crispy.
Use the cinnamon only if your fruit choice makes sense with it. I use cinnamon or apple pie spice with apples of course, but I also use one or the other with pears. I do not use any spices with peaches, and I use sprinkle a teaspoon or so of almond extract over my cherries.

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Keyword apple, crisp