Vegan Gluten Free Apple Crisp

I love making a good vegan crisps when it’s the apple season. Similar to my Blackberry Crisp, Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp, or Strawberry Crumble, this recipe is a delicious dessert that can also be enjoyed for breakfast, and it’s gluten-free. Whatever your reasons, this healthy apple crisp recipe with oatmeal will make everyone happy.

Ingredients and Swaps

Let’s see what you need to make the best-ever healthy apple crisp!

Gluten-Free Egg-Free Dairy-Free Vegan Rich in Vitamin C and Healthy Fat

Apples – See the next paragraph to learn how to choose the best apples for your apple crisp recipe. Gluten-Free Rolled Oats – Rolled oats are a very healthy cereal full of plant-based fiber, iron, and vitamin B6. Rolled oats make the most delicious crispy apple crisp. Of course, if you can’t have oats, there is another option. You can replace oats with the same amount of millet flakes or sliced almonds. Note that millet flakes won’t crisp as much as rolled oats. Walnuts – They add lots of crunch to the topping and add up to your iron and magnesium intake too. Other delicious nuts to use instead are chopped almonds or chopped pecan nuts. Unsweetened Shredded Coconut – This also makes the crisp very crispy in combination with oats and walnuts. Almond Flour – It’s a healthy low-carb flour to boost your apple crisp recipe with healthy fat and less refined carbs. Maple Syrup – This is a healthy apple crisp recipe with maple syrup, but if you prefer, you can use any unrefined liquid sweetener you like. Agave syrup and brown rice syrup would work well too. Avocado Oil – Or almond oil or grapeseed oil. All these oils have a high smoke point perfect for baking. Plus, they don’t contain that much of saturated fat. This said coconut oil would work just as well. It simply contains more saturated fat than the other oil. Choose the oil that matches your health goals. Lemon Juice – You can also use orange juice to enhance the fall flavor of your dessert. Cinnamon – for taste. Nutmeg – Not everyone enjoys the flavor of nutmeg. If you don’t, skip this part of the recipe or use more cinnamon or cardamom instead.

How To Make A Healthy Apple Crisp

Apple crisp is the easiest dessert recipe to prepare just before dinner and is ready to serve in just 30 minutes. Bonus, it’s possible to twist your classic apple crisp recipe to make a vegan, gluten-free apple crisp with no butter, no refined sugar, and no flour.

Tips for Choosing Your Apples

The best apples to use in apple crisp are the apples with a crisp! It means the apples you would use for an apple tart. Apples release juice while baking but remain crisp and won’t turn too mushy or soft. The most popular apple varieties for an apple crisp are:

Granny smith Fuji Gala Honeycrisp Pink lady Golden Delicious Red Delicious

You can adjust this recipe to make it nut-free. A healthy apple crisp doesn’t have to involve nuts. You can swap almond flour with oat flour and walnuts with pumpkin seeds or more rolled oats. Use fresh or slightly aged apples that aren’t too soft. Peel, core, and remove any mushy spots. Cut apples into uniform thin slices, ensuring even size for consistent cooking. For optimal results, cut apples into 1/4-inch slices for a juicy apple crisp. The best crunchy, healthy apple crisp topping is achieved with the right balance of almond flour, nuts, coconut, oats, maple syrup, oil, and spices. Nuts, oats, and coconut add to the texture and the crunch you are after. The oil and maple syrup bind the almond flour to the rest to make the mixture crumbly like an oatmeal cookie crumble.

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Serving Suggestions

There are many vegan toppings you can serve with this vegan apple crisp recipe like:

Dairy-free coconut yogurt or soy yogurt Vegan Whipped Cream Dairy-free vanilla ice cream A drizzle of maple syrup Whipped coconut cream – open a can of pure coconut cream, scoop out the top part and whisk in a cod bowl until it makes whipped cream—flavor with stevia drops or maple syrup. You can also make my 3-Ingredient Vegan Coconut Cream Frosting Raspberry coulis

Tips For A Perfect Apple Crip

the trick to making perfectly baked apples in a crisp recipe is to

Cut apples thinly – apples must be peeled and thinly sliced, 1/4 inches max. Layer the apples in a maximum of 3 layers – too many layers of apples will take longer to cook. This results in a dry filling as all the juice will evaporate. On the other side, if your layers are too thin, the apple will cook very fast, even faster than the topping resulting in a water filling. Plus, the topping will never have time to bake and crisp.