Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce

You might have many apple crisp recipes in your collection yet this one for Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce raises the bar!

Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce

There’s a lot of apple recipes flying around right now, and I can’t help but to jump in with both whisks. I love the fall season for the fresh fruits and vegetables, purchasing them in bulk and trying new comforting recipes.

As much as I love my No-bake apple pie parfaits recipe and this mouthwatering caramel apple milkshake – there’s something classic and comforting in a good old apple crisp!

Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce is a recipe I which I recently discovered, and one that I’ll be making time and again for the ease and taste. Apple crisp IS the epitome of fall, agree?

If you do, you also need to try my Maple Apple Crisp. It’s a Canadian twist on apple crisp that needs to be tried!

These past couple of weeks my slow cooker has found a permanent home on my kitchen counter, I’ve been using it so much. With school and activities in full swing, I’ve found it impossible to make dinner on certain days of the week.

Thus, I’ve designated a few days to always being ‘slow cooker recipe days’. It’s one small appliance that I just couldn’t live without.

Then on other days, it can be tricky to plan the timing of dinners and desserts which both require the oven, so using the slow cooker for one sure makes it easier. Heaven forbid you have no cooking space when you very much want that dessert, after all!

Or perhaps you aren’t the baking sort and need a guiding hand – both are great reasons why this Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce needs to be made. It might just be the easiest apple crisp ever!

This recipe only takes 2 hours of slow cooking, so it’s not a crockpot dessert recipe that requires all day to make. During which time may I add, the house fills with the amazing scent of apples and cinnamon. There’s nothing more comforting!

To throw this recipe over the top, I love the addition of the 3-ingredient warm vanilla sauce. It really is the perfect topping and compliment to the recipe.

In fact, the sauce is so good I could probably eat just that by the spoonfuls as well. Ok, full disclosure – I had a *few* tastes. So, as a note, don’t skip this part of the recipe or you’ll be missing out.

While there’s plenty of traditional apple crisp recipes out there, this warm vanilla sauce makes this one stand out as something pretty special. You’ll be reminded of that with each and every bite too!

How often do you make desserts in the slow cooker?

5 from 3 votes

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Slow-Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

2 hrs 40 mins

Total Time

2 hrs 50 mins

 

You might have many apple crisp recipes in your collection yet this one for Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Warm Vanilla Sauce raises the bar!

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apple crisp, slow cooker

Servings: 4

Calories: 775 kcal

Author: Tammi

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp sugar
• 1 Tbsp flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 8 Granny Smith apples 2-1/2 lb./1.1 kg, peeled, sliced
• 12 gingersnaps finely crushed
• 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/4 cup non-hydrogenated margarine melted
• 1 pkg Vanilla Instant Pudding 4-serving size
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 3 cups milk

Instructions

1. Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon in large bowl. Add apples; toss to coat. Place in slow cooker.
2. Combine cookie crumbs, oats, nuts and margarine; sprinkle over apples. Cover with lid. Cook on HIGH 2 to 3 hours (or on LOW 4 to 6 hours).
3. Beat pudding mix, nutmeg and milk in microwaveable bowl with whisk 2 min. Microwave on HIGH 2 min., stirring after each minute. Spoon over individual servings of dessert.

Recipe Notes

SPECIAL EXTRA
Add 1/2 cup dried cranberries to the apple mixture before cooking as directed.
SPECIAL EXTRA
When serving adults, stir 1 Tbsp. rum into warmed sauce before spooning over desserts, if desired.