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    Home » Dessert Recipes » Apple Crisp with Oats, Pears, Cranberries, & Pumpkin

    Apple Crisp with Oats, Pears, Cranberries, & Pumpkin

    Sugar Free RecipesTrim Healthy Mama Recipes

    Published: Oct 16, 2018 by Taryn

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    This sugar-free Apple Crisp with Oats, Pears, Cranberries, & Pumpkin is the epitome of fall in a bite.

    casserole dish with serving spoon full of apple crisp next to a plate with a serving of apple crisp

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    This healthy apple crisp recipe is for my Trim Healthy Mama readers. It is an E (or energizing) recipe which means it has a healthy amount of carbs and is low in fat. I tend to lean on S recipes (low carb) here at Joy Filled Eats but I still love fruit which is one of the reasons why I do Trim Healthy Mama instead of a low carb diet.

    Trim Healthy Mama balances all the food groups and all the nutrients your body needs. I'm still nursing my baby so I like to get in my healthy carbs when I can. Most of the time my E meals are rolled up turkey plus a piece of fruit at lunchtime. I need to branch out a little more and this delicious sugar free apple crisp with oats is a great way to try to do this.

    Bite of Apple Crisp on a fork resting on a plate with a serving of more apple crisp

    How to Make Apple Crisp with Oats

    Apple crisp is one of the easiest desserts to make. Really! My 9-year-old can make this healthy apple crisp almost entirely on her own. You just need to peel and cut the apples (a thin slice apple cutter helps with this) and stir in the rest of the ingredients. Dump in a baking dish, stir together the oat crisp ingredients and then sprinkle them on top. Bake and enjoy!

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    Pumpkin Pear Cranberry Apple Crisp

    I figured why not incorporate all the best flavors of the fall into one dessert. Pumpkin, pears, apples, cranberries, and a little cinnamon all at once. One of my favorite cookbooks is called Apple Pie Perfect. I have read it cover to cover (I love cookbooks) and one of the recipes uses cubed sugar pumpkin. I decided to use pumpkin puree in this adaptation to keep things simpler but there is still a nice pumpkin pie flavor in the apple crisp.

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    How to make a Low Fat Apple Crisp Topping

    One of the requirements for a Trim Healthy Mama E meal is that it needs to have less than 5 grams of fat per serving. When making an oat crisp topping I traditionally use a whole stick of butter. To keep this within the guidelines I cut back on the butter and added a little cottage cheese in its place. Cottage cheese in apple crisp? I promise you cannot taste it a bit!

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    Best Apples for Apple Crisp

    I like to use an assortment of firm and soft apples in my apple crisp with oat topping. My family went apple picking a couple weeks ago and we picked Fuji, Empire, Macoun, and some more heirloom varieties. To be honest, once we got home I forgot which was which. I just took a random assortment and began baking. It worked! As long as you don't use all soft apples, like Macintosh, you should be good!

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    Apple Crisp with Oats, Pears, Cranberries, & Pumpkin

    This sugar-free Apple Crisp with Oats, Pears, Cranberries, & Pumpkin is the epitome of fall in a bite.
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    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 45 minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 12
    Calories: 119
    Author: Taryn

    Ingredients

    Apple Filling:

    • 4 apples about 1.5 lb, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
    • 2 pears about .5lb, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
    • 1 cup fresh cranberries
    • ½ cup pumpkin
    • ⅓ cup Joy Filled Eats Sweetener (or see alternatives in recipe notes)
    • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
    • ½ teaspoon glucomannan

    Oat Crisp Topping:

    • 2 cups oats
    • ½ cup Joy Filled Eats Sweetener (or see alternatives in recipe notes)
    • ⅓ cup cottage cheese
    • 2 tablespoon butter softened
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
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    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350.
    • Stir together all the apple filling ingredients in a large bowl until well combined. Dump into the prepared baking dish.
    • Add the oat crisp topping to the large bowl. Mix with your fingers, breaking up the curds of cottage cheese until they are incorporated into the topping. Sprinkle on top of the apple filling.
    • Bake for 45 min until golden brown with the juices thickened and bubbling along the edges.

    Notes

    Notes on Sweeteners: 
    I use my own blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia in my recipes. This is twice as sweet as sugar. It is comparable to Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet and Truvia.
    To sub in Swerve or Lakanto Monk Fruit use 1.5 times the amount of sweetener called for. 
     
    To sub in Pyure or Trim Healthy Mama Super Sweet use half the amount of sweetener called for.
     
    Substitutions will work in most recipes. They may not work in candies, such as caramel.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 119 | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 39mg | Potassium: 161mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 520IU | Vitamin C: 5.2mg | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 0.8mg
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    Comments

    1. Heather Gray says

      October 20, 2021 at 7:55 pm

      I love this variation on the apple crisp. It adds all the things I love about fall!5 stars

      Reply
    2. Bert & Alice Schussler says

      April 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm

      SOOO GOOD!! I think I would add less Gentle Sweet next time, personal preference.

      Reply
    3. Charise says

      May 30, 2020 at 9:16 pm

      I am not a pumpkin or cranberry fan. Would I sub something else for the pumpkin?

      Reply
      • Taryn says

        May 31, 2020 at 12:34 pm

        No, you can just omit it.

        Reply
    4. Lea says

      March 19, 2020 at 7:50 pm

      So delicious! Thank you!5 stars

      Reply
    5. Allison says

      November 20, 2019 at 10:03 pm

      I didn't have pears, so I used extra apples. It was delicious. I've tried several other THM variations but this is my favorite by far. The cottage cheese helps crisp the oat topping and like you said, does not taste like cottage cheese.5 stars

      Reply
    6. Kari says

      November 03, 2019 at 3:33 pm

      Would this freeze well?

      Reply
      • Taryn says

        November 03, 2019 at 3:43 pm

        In my opinion apple crisp is best fresh. But, it can be frozen if you need to.

        Reply
    7. Justine says

      April 18, 2019 at 3:58 pm

      This was amazing!5 stars

      Reply
    8. Jessica Formicola says

      April 18, 2019 at 3:42 pm

      I was craving something with apple, so I made this last night. It was a total hot with everyone! Thanks so much for sharing!5 stars

      Reply

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