This is the Best Apple Crisp Recipe that is full of tender baked apples and sprinkled with an old-fashioned oatmeal apple crisp topping. Learn how to make a healthy, gluten-free apple crisp that can also easily be made vegan!
Add butter to a large skillet over medium heat. Once butter is melted, add sliced, peeled, and cored apples, coconut sugar, apple pie spice, and salt. Cook for 8-10 minutes or until apples become slightly tender.
Turn off heat and stir in lemon juice.
While apples are cooking, add coconut sugar and softened butter to a medium-sized bowl. Using a fork or a pastry cutter mix the ingredients together. Add oats, flour, pecans, and cinnamon and continue cutting them together until the mixture forms coarse crumbs.
Spray a 9 x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and pour apples into the pan. Sprinkle crumb topping all over the apples.
Bake apple crisp in the oven for 30-35 minutes or until topping is lightly browned and crunchy.