Better Than Grandma’s Apple Brown Betty

Apple brown betty is a scrumptious and comforting fall dessert – no oats required. High it with vanilla ice cream, and it’ll knock your socks off!

It took me a number of makes an attempt to give you what my household thought was an ideal model. I hope you like it as a lot as we do!

Apple Betty Challenges I Fastened:

Unique recipes known as for utilizing day previous bread and both cubing or pulsing it in a meals processor. Not solely was it a trouble, the topping didn’t maintain collectively effectively and wasn’t very buttery or flavorful. (Assume apples with cinnamon sugar toast crumbled on high.)

Some recipes name for placing half of the topping on the underside. Whereas I like that for my double crumb apple crisp, I didn’t like it for this dish. I felt like the underside was soggy, and the apples didn’t have sufficient crunchy topping.

My first try on the topping wasn’t crispy sufficient. It simply melted into the apples and left swimming pools of butter. I upped the quantity of flour, and it made an enormous distinction!

I attempted chopping butter in with a pastry blender, and I attempted utilizing melted butter. Utilizing a meals processor let to the perfect topping that held collectively effectively and obtained good and crunchy.

Most recipes name for including lemon juice to your apples. This might in all probability work nice with sweeter apples, however since I like baking with Granny Smiths, orange juice labored higher. And I discovered that utilizing much less made for higher texture.

Why is it known as a Brown Betty?

Like most classic recipes, the identify of this dessert is considerably of a thriller. Some consider it obtained its identify from the unique baker — an African-American lady named Betty.

Others say it merely obtained its identify both as a result of it requires brown sugar, or as a result of the topping is a beautiful brown shade.

The tasty apple dessert originated in America, and the identify was first printed in 1864 within the Yale Literary Journal.

 Since then it has risen in recognition, and even has its personal meals vacation. That’s proper, October 5 is Nationwide Apple Betty Day!

HOW TO MAKE THE BEST APPLE BROWN BETTY

PREP – Butter or spray a 9-inch pie plate with cooking spray. Preheat your oven to 375°.

APPLES – Peel and core the apples. Lower them into 1/2″ slices. Toss them with the orange juice and unfold them in your pie pan.

TOPPING – In a meals processor or blender, mix the flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Lower the chilly butter into chunks and dump in. Pulse a number of occasions till the butter is damaged into small items. Proceed pulsing till the combination turns a darker brown shade and begins clumping collectively.

BAKE – Unfold the topping over the apples. Bake at 375 levels for 30-35 minutes or till the apples are tender and the topping is golden brown.

SERVE – In case you have persistence, wait for five minutes for the apples to chill a bit. We served ours instantly with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Positively a should!

Leftovers?

In case you occur to have any leftovers, they may maintain within the fridge for a few days earlier than the topping begins to get soggy.

You’ll be able to both cowl your pie dish with plastic wrap, or switch the leftovers to an hermetic container. Simply ensure that the brown betty is totally cool earlier than you cowl it, or it would get soggy actual quick!

Leftovers might be reheated within the microwave or within the oven in an oven protected container. Or you may merely eat it chilly. We positively favor it heat although. 🙂

APPLE BETTY VARIATIONS:

In case you don’t have granny smith apples, you need to use one other crisp apple. Fuji, jonagold, honey crisp, and braeburn apples work effectively. Golden scrumptious apples can be utilized, however they have an inclination to get softer.

For a extra conventional dish, you may place half of the crumbs on the underside of the pie pan. We like our topping crunchy, however you could favor some crumbs blended in together with your apples.

If you’re utilizing a sweeter apple, or identical to issues on the tart facet, substitute the orange juice with lemon juice. Contemporary or bottled will work.

As a substitute of serving with vanilla ice cream, attempt my cinnamon ice cream. Delish! And naturally a dollop of whipped cream can be tasty.

Be happy to regulate the spices to your liking. We loved the mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. However you need to use simply cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, or any fall spices you’ve available.

In case you don’t have a pie pan, you may bake this dessert in a sq. baking dish, or casserole dish.

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BEST APPLE BROWN BETTY RECIPE!

Not solely is that this brown betty splendidly scrumptious, it’s so straightforward to whip up. It positively wants a spot in your line up of fall desserts!