Slow Cooker Apple Crisp

I love going out apple picking at this time of year.  It's always a fun activity to do with the boys {places that they are free to run around are always high on my list!} and we love to try all of the different varieties of apples.  They also happen to have amazing apple cider slushies! {so good!!}  We have already been out to Willow View Farm a couple of times this year and have come back with a good apple stash each time. 

So what to do with all of those apples?  

Apples happen to be both of the boys' favorite fruit so they go quite quickly around here.  We had a few apple tasting sessions with the different varieties of apples and made up a few more of these apple frogs.

{although our recent frogs have turned more red!}

But my favorite thing to do with apples is make apple crisp!

I have had a slow cooker for years and have never actually used it.  In fact, it was still sitting in its unopened box in the garage.  Since I was feeling particularly adventuresome, I decided to break it out and try some apple crisp in the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Apple Crisp

TOPPING

• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter cut into pieces
• 3/4 cup rolled oats

Mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl.  Combine the butter using a fork or your fingers until course crumbs form.  Mix in the oats and set aside.

FILLING

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 6 cups apples -peeled, cored and chopped {roughly 6-8 apples}
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Place the apples in the slow cooker.  Mix the sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon together an a bowl and then sprinkle over the apples.  Add the lemon juice and toss it together.  Sprinkle the oatmeal topping on top.  Cover and cook on low for 4 hours.

It's maybe not as "crisp" as the apple crisp that I usually make in the oven but it is oh so good!!  Kind of a mix between homemade apple sauce and the traditional apple crisp.  We actually made up two batches this past weekend!

And now my slow cooker can go back in the garage....

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