Apple Crisp Pizza

For fall fun I wanted to do something with cooked apples, cause I love that, but I've done apple crisp before and wanted something different. I found a twist on apple crisp on Pinterest (BEST place to look for cool food ideas).  The recipe is from a blog called Love and a Prayer.


Apple Crisp Pizza

• Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground Cinnamon
• 3-4 medium apples peeled and diced into 1/4 inch pieces 

Topping:

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup salted butter, softened

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Roll out pie-crust and fold under edges to give the pizza a bit of a raised crust. Combine sugar, flour and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add peeled, diced apples and toss. Arrange the apples in a single layer over the pie crust to completely cover it. I didn't use all of my apples because I had really big apples.
3. For the topping: Combine the flour, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon, and butter in a bowl. Mix well. I like to use my clean hands to get in there and mush it together until it's the texture of wet sand. Sprinkle topping evenly over the apples.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-35 minutes or until apples are tender. Remove from oven and immediately drizzle with **caramel topping. Cut into pizza slices and serve warm with ice cream. Best if eaten right away

 

**For the caramel topping I used a recipe from Martha Stewart

 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup light-brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Pinch of coarse salt 
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Directions

1. Step 1
   In a small saucepan, bring sugar, butter, and cream to a boil over medium-high. Cook, stirring, until butter melts and mixture is smooth. Reduce to a simmer, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla and salt.
2.  

The caramel sauce was great. I let it cool a little bit too long before putting it on the pizza so it got a little thick, but still tasted the same. I ate the leftovers with raw apple for a snack.

 

 

So mine didn't really turn out very well, it took way longer too cook and when I tried it, it tasted really dry and bland. I think that this happened because I put it on two pans, so that if the juice from the apples dripped it wouldn't make the oven all dirty, but the juice actually stayed on the pizza and made the crust extra soggy so it wouldn't back, also the crust didn't bake as fast as it should have because of the double pan. The apple dried out and a lot of the juice evaporated because it was in the oven so long. I would make this again because it still looks really good, I just wouldn't double pan it next time.