PUMPKIN APPLE CRISP

Baked

Slow Cooker

Ingredients:	Doubling Quantities:
Apple Filling	Apple Filling
4 medium large apples (I used Honey Crisp), peeled, cored, chopped	8 medium apples, peeled, cored and chopped
½ (15 oz.) can pumpkin puree	1 (15 oz.)can pumpkin puree
2 tablespoons lemon juice	4 Tablespoons lemon juice
A splash of vanilla	1 teaspoon vanilla
3 ½  tablespoons tapioca flour	7 tablespoons tapioca flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon	1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice	1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice
1/8 – ¼  cup white sugar	¼ cup white sugar
3 teaspoons caramel	6 teaspoons caramel
Streusel/Crisp Topping	Streusel/Crisp Topping
¼  cup flour	½  cup flour
½  cup spice cake mix or caramel apple cake mix	1 cup spice cake mix or caramel apple cake mix
½  cup quick oats	1 cup quick oats
¼ - 1/3 cup white sugar	1/3 cup white sugar
¼ - 1/3 cup brown sugar	1/3 cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon	1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg	1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 pinch salt	2 pinches salt
Approx. ½ cup butter, cut into little cubes	14 tablespoons butter (2 tablespoons less than 2 full cubes)
½  cup chopped pecans	1 cup chopped pecans

Directions:

Preheat oven to 360 degrees. * or line a slow cooker with Reynold’s slow cooker liners.

Pour the lemon juice into a large bowl.  Peel, core and chop each apple individually, stirring them into the lemon juice (to keep them from browning).  Add the pumpkin, tapioca flour, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and sugar.  Stir into the apples.  Place pumpkin apple mixture in a 9X9 baking dish (or a 13X9 if you are making a double batch)  Meanwhile, prepare the streusel topping.

Combine the flour, cake mix, quick oats, sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.  Stir.  Add the butter a little at a time and use a pastry blender or a fork to cut into coarse crumbs.  Stir in the chopped pecans.  Pour over the apple pumpkin mixture.  Put a large baking sheet under your baking pan.  The filling will bubble up and spill over.  Place in the preheated oven bake for 60-70 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla or butter pecan ice cream.

*if using a slow cooker, cook on high for 2 hours.  For the last hour of cooking, remove the lid part of the way to help It crisp.  (It does not crisp as well in the slow cooker)

Ingredients

Apples

Pumpkin and Apples

Apples, Pumpkin and filling ingredients

Apple/Pumpkin Mixture

Apple Pumpkin Mixture in Crock Pot

Crumb Topping

Ready to Cook in Crock Pot

Letting it Crisp

Double Batch Ready to Bake

Apple Pumpkin Mixture Double Batch

Just Out of the Oven

Baked

SPICE CAKE & OATMEAL PUMPKIN CRISP

Ingredients:

1 pie crust

1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree*
1 cup evaporated milk, separated
¾ cup sugar, separated*
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice*

1 package unflavored gelatin
1 package spice cake mix

¾ cup oatmeal

1 cup butter, cubed
1 cup chopped pecans

¼ cup cinnamon chips, optional

Whipped Cream or Ice Cream
* For a thicker pumpkin crisp, use 2 (15 oz.) cans pumpkin puree and also 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice.  Add more sugar, if desired
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a 9” X 13” baking dish, spread the pie crust on the bottom.  Cut edges with a knife or a pastry knife.  Prick bottom of crust with the tines of a fork. Set aside. Combine pumpkin, ¾ cup evaporated milk, ½ cup sugar, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice.  In a small saucepan, pour ¼ cup evaporated milk.  Sprinkle gelatin packet over it milk.  Wait 1 minute.  Over low heat, stir mixture and add sugar.  Stir until dissolved.  Add gelatin mixture into the pumpkin mixture.  Mix well.

Pour pumpkin mixture into a 9×13 baking dish.  Meanwhile, pour the spice cake mix and the oatmeal in a bowl.  Add the cubed butter and using a pastry blender, cut until it resembles coarse crumbs.  Sprinkle over pumpkin mixture in baking dish.  Sprinkle pecans and cinnamon chips over topping.

Bake for 70-80 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow to cool and top with whipped cream to serve. Or with Pumpkin or vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients

Pie Crust

Pie Crust Cut and Pricked

Oatmeal and Spice Cake Mix

Gelatin Mixture

Pumpkin Mixture

Spice Cake, Oatmeal and Butter Topping

Pumpkin Layer

With Cake, Oatmeal and Butter Topping

With Pecans

With Pecans and Cinnamon Chips

Just Out Of the Oven