Crisp In A Pinch Food

A LITTLE FRUIT WITH MY CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the berry mixture: In a medium bowl, combine the raspberries and strawberries, granulated sugar, cornstarch and vanilla. Stir and set aside.
• For the crisp: Butter an 8-inch square baking dish. In a large bowl (or food processor), combine the butter pieces, flour, oats, granulated sugar, brown sugar, pecans and salt. Cut together with a pastry cutter (or pulse in the food processor) until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Press half of the crisp mixture into the prepared baking dish. Top with the berry mixture, then sprinkle the remaining crisp over the top. Bake until the topping is golden brown, about 45 minutes. Allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.
• For the whipped cream: Add the cream and granulated sugar to the bowl of a mixer and whip until soft peaks form.
• Scoop out the crisp with a spoon and top with sweetened whipped cream

CINNAMON APPLE CRISP

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375. Grease bottom & sides of an 8x8 square pan with shortening.
• 2. In a small bowl, mix together 1/8 c of sugar and 1/4 tsp cinnamon.
• 3. Toss together with the peeled, thinly sliced apples until coated evenly.
• 4. Spread apples in the bottom of the pan.
• 5. Mix together all topping ingredients except butter. Once mixed, add butter.
• 6. Mix well. I find it easiest to use my hands to incorporate the butter into the mixture.
• 7. Sprinkle evenly over apple mixture.
• 8. Bake about 40-45 minutes at 375 until topping is golden brown. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, if desired.

FRUIT CRISP

Steps:

• 1. Mix crumb topping ingredients together until crumbly and holds shape when pressed together with fingers; set mixture aside.
• 2. Mix your fruit and all fruit filling ingredients (any kind you want, if using a fruit with a rind make sure you peel it first apples, peaches, plums, etc.).
• 3. For individual desserts (4 to 6 depending on size) spray the bottom of small oven-safe dishes with non-stick cooking spray. May also be made as a single larger one (like a 2-quart baking dish).
• 4. Add fruit to the bottom of pans/dishes till about 3/4 full. Crumble topping over top of the fruit.
• 5. Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes until the top is golden brown and fruit is soft when pricked with a fork and well jelled together.

DELICIOUS APPLE CRISP

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375. Spray 9X13 pan with cooking spray.
• 2. Peel and slice apples right into the pan. Mix it up so that you don't have only one variety of apple in a spot. I just dump all the apples on the counter and start peeling. Of course, I save all the peels and cores to either put out to feed wild life or to put in the compost pile.
• 3. Feel free to adjust the amount or variety of apples to fit your tastes or the main motivation what is on hand. Honeycrisps are sweet, Fuji and Stayman Winesap are more tart/spicy, but if you like all sweet then do that, if you like all tart, then do that.
• 4. Cover the apples in the pan with the sugar. This is just a guesstimate of how much sugar to use because I just grab handfuls of sugar and sprinkle on top until all the apples are covered.
• 5. After this, sprinkle with the cinnamon.
• 6. Mix dry ingredients together in a small bowl while you are melting butter in the microwave. A stick of cold butter will usually melt in 1 minute in my microwave.
• 7. Mix butter into dry ingredients. You can try to be delicate and mix with a fork, but it works best if you use your hands to get everything blended together and moist.
• 8. Sprinkle your "crisp" over your apples. Again I use my hand so I can make sure that everything is covered and there are no large globs of crisp.
• 9. Bake in 375 degree oven for 30-40 minutes. You should check it at 30 but I have found that every time I make this I do not like how it looks so I cook it 5 minutes longer, check again to make sure it isn't burning then it goes back in again for 5 more minutes making a total cooking time of 40 minutes.