Cardamom Apple Crumble is easy to make yet impressive enough for holiday gatherings, and it’s sure to be a hit with your family and friends!
This Cardamom Apple Crumble is everything you want in a cozy fall dessert – warm, fragrant, and incredibly satisfying. The secret ingredient here is cardamom, which adds a subtle floral spice that elevates the classic apple crumble to something truly special.
Scratch the pie crust this holiday season, and try this Cardamom Apple Crumble. Serve it warm with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream for the ultimate fall treat.
Why You’ll Love this
Cozy Flavors: The warm spiced apples combined with a buttery crunchy topping make this dessert a fall classic comfort food
Versatile: You can easily adjust the sweetness or add different spices to suit your taste
Ingredients
Apples: I like to use a mix of the best-looking apples at the store. My favorites this season are Honeycrisp, Fuji and Gala.
Brown Sugar: I have tried this recipe with both types of brown sugar, dark brown and light brown. The dark brown gave the crumble a molasses-y flavor that paired nicely with the fall flavors. The light brown was more mellow but still very rich and rounded the dessert out nicely.
Spices: Cinnamon, Cardamom, Salt. The cardamom adds a subtle floral spice that elevates the classic apple. The cinnamon is a classic apple crumble flavor. The salt enhances the flavor of the crumble and brings it all together,
Lemon juice
Old Fashion Rolled Oats
Pecans
Flour
Butter
How To Make
Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 and butter a 13×9 baking dish.
Prepare Apple Filling: In a large bowl, combine apples, ½ cup brown sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Set it aside.
Prepare Crumble Topping: In a medium bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, pecans, and salt. Mix in the melted butter, using your hands as needed to get every oat coated in butter.
Put it all together: Evenly layer the apples into the baking dish. Using your hands, create clumps of the crumble of varying sizes and sprinkle evenly across the apples.
Bake: Bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes. The apples will be soft, tender and bubbling, and the crumble will be a golden brown. Let cool slightly before enjoying with a scoop of vanilla ice ceam!
Tips for Success
- Mix the topping for the crumble well, making sure every oat is coated. I use my hands to get the best mixture possible. If the oats are not coated, the crumble will be dry as opposed to golden brown and crisp.
- For the pecans, you’ll want to roughly chop so that they are varying sizes. The difference sizes adds to the crumbles texture and taste. In one of my tests, I tried using small chopped pecans and it resulted in them getting lost in the topping. Having a few larger chunks throughout makes this dish shine!
- Notes on Sweetness: The natural sweetness of apples reduces the need for added sugar in this recipe, but feel free to add an extra 1/4 cup in either the filling or topping if you prefer a sweeter flavor!
Cardamom Apple Crumble
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
Description
This cardamom Apple Crumble is everything you want in a cozy fall dessert—warm, fragrant, and incredibly satisfying. The secret ingredient in my apple crumble is cardamom, which adds a subtle floral spice that elevates the classic apple crumble to something truly special.
Ingredients
Spiced Apple Filling
8 medium apples, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch thick chunks
1/4– 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Cardamom
2 tbsp Lemon juice
Topping
1 Cup Flour
1 cup Rolled Oats
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup pecans, roughly chopped
1/2 tsp salt
¼ tsp cinnamon
⅛ tsp cardamom
12 tbsp Butter, Melted
Instructions
Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 and butter a 13×9 baking dish.
Prepare Spiced Apple Filling: In a large bowl, combine apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, and lemon juice. Set it aside.
Prepare Crumble Topping: In a medium bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, cardamom, and salt. Mix in the melted butter, using your hands as needed to get every oat coated in butter.
Put it all together: Evenly layer the apples into the baking dish. Using your hands, create clumps of the crumble of varying sizes and sprinkle evenly across the apples.
Bake: Bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes. The apples will be soft, tender and bubbling, and the crumble will be a golden brown. Let cool slightly for enjoying with a scoop of vanilla ice ceam!
Notes
Notes on sweetness: The natural sweetness of apples reduces the need for added sugar in this recipe, but feel free to add an extra 1/4 cup if you prefer a sweeter flavor!
Sugar: I have tried using both types of brown sugar: dark brown and light brown. Using dark brown gives a deeper molasses-y taste that pairs very nicely with the fall flavors, while the lighter is much more mellow yet rich. They are both equally delicious!
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 60
- Category: Dessert