recipe: apple crisp (t-day 4 of 4)

so i came to a realization... and that is that apple pie takes a really long time to make. but apple cake, and apple crisp, and many other an apple dish do not. the only difference is that the pie has a crust... and though the lattice top is very cute, i'm not that attached to it. esp when i had only 30 minutes to find a recipe & finish prepping this bad boy. i decided to go with the Apple Crisp II recipe from allrecipes.com (4.5 star rating w/ 90K ppl saving it... can't go wrong). i cut this back a bit by about 1/3, but am posting the original 12-serving recipe below:

ingredients list:
- 10 cups granny smith apples, cored & sliced (peeled only if preferred)
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup water


- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter, melted


to make: preheat oven to 350 degrees. place sliced apples in a 9" x 13" baking dish. mix the white sugar, 1 tbsp flour, cinnamon, and water together and pour over apples, mixing until apples are fully covered.


combine oats, 1 cup flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and melted butter together, and crumble evenly over the apple mixture (yes... that is so much easier than making a crust, rolling it, etc etc).


bake for 45 minutes until apples are totally soft and the crust is nice & toasty.
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so. i had baked this last night so i could just heat & eat it today. but "what had happened was" the liquid from the apples & the water settled so it was a little runny at the bottom. the taste was great, still syroupy sauce on the apples, but the extra liquid was just annoying. so if you make this, make it day of (it looked just right when it came out of the oven last night... the topping was crisper as well. good quality to have in an apple crisp haha). i will make again, just with that one mod... i'll give it 5 ***** now, i'm sure it would be much higher w/ that mod tho.