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Put a twist on your regular Elephant Ears or Funnel Cake recipe by adding Apple Crisp! We’re sharing how we took one of our fall favorites and combined it with a summer treat to get Apple Crisp Funnel Cake With Homemade Caramel.
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Apple Crisp Funnel Cake With Homemade Caramel
Okay. Here’s a well-known fact, there’s nothing better than homemade apple crisp, right? So, why am I am going to try and raise the apple crisp bar? Well, why not? Here is my thinking. Funnel cake is a summer fav and apple crisp is absolutely a fall affair. But how does one know when one dessert season ends and the other one begins? Now you longer have to guess. I combined the delicious sweet fun of summertime funnel cake with a fall favorite, apple crisp. Problem solved. And when you drizzle on the homemade caramel you just might slap someone.
Here’s what you will need to create this oh so right it’s wrong dessert at home…
Ingredients for apple mixture:
- 3 Granny Smith Apples
- 2 Honeycrisp Apples
- 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 Meyer Lemon Zest
- 1 Navel Orange Zest
- Juice from 1 Myer Lemon
- Juice from 1 Navel Orange
- 1/4 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
Directions:
- Peel and cut the apples into medium-size chunks. Combine the cut fruit with the orange and lemon zest, juices, vanilla extract, Kosher salt, 1/2 cup of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
- Pour mixture, including all of the juice, into a baking dish, I prefer a cast-iron skillet. Yes, my Mama taught me well. [ see below for the crumble recipe]
Apple Crisp Crumble Ingredients:
- 1 cup of Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
- 1 1/2 cups of All-Purpose Flour
- 3/4 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 tablespoon of Cinnamon
- 1 Teaspoon of Nutmeg
- 1/4 Ground Cloves
- 1/2 Teaspoon of Kosher salt
- 2 Sticks of Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Directions:
- Combine the flour, sugar, light brown sugar, Kosher salt, oatmeal, and cold cut butter into the bowl of a stand mixer. Use the paddle attachment. Mix on low speed until the mixture is crumbly and the butter is the size of a pinto bean. Top evenly over the apple mixture.
- Bake for 1 hour (60 minutes) or until the top is golden brown and you can’t take it anymore.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool a bit. Scoop out the apple crisp while it still warm and place on top of warm funnel cake and drizzle with homemade caramel.
Funnel Cake Recipe
- Vegetable Oil, for frying
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 2 Cups Whole Milk
- 3 1/3 Flour
- 3 Eggs
Directions:
1. Mix flour and sugar until incorporated.
2. Add flour, Kosher salt, and baking powder and mix well.
3. Slowly pour in the milk a little at a time and mix well until all milk is added.
4. Pour batter into a Funnel Pitcher or Pancake Dispenser.
5. Heat vegetable oil, when oil is hot hold Funnel Pitcher over hot oil and begin drizzling batter into hot oil making zigzagging and overlapping patterns.
6. Allow batter to brown then scoop out with a large slotted spoon and place it on a wire rack lined with a paper towel.
7. Top with powdered sugar.
Homemade Salted Caramel
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Light Brown Sugar, packed
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
- 5 Tablespoons of Sweet Cream Unsalted Butter
- 1 Tablespoon of Pure Vanilla Extract
- Pinch of Kosher Salt
Directions
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix brown sugar, heavy cream, butter, and salt.
- Stir until the mixture starts to thicken about 5-8 minutes.
- Add vanilla, stir until well mixed and remove caramel from heat.
- After you have drizzled caramel all over the Apple Crisp Funnel Cake and caramel add a pinch of coarse Sea salt over it all.
Now, watch it disappear, you are now a certified magician!
This is such a fun treat and a delicious way to combine your favorite seasonal desserts!
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Cupcake Brownie Funnel Cake with Caramel Sauce
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Robin (Masshole Mommy) says
That is so incredibly drool worthy!!! Apple crisp is one of my favorites anyways, so this sounds like you found a way to make it even better.
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Liz Mays says
This woudl definitely please the family. I love surprising them with big special desserts like these.
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Jaime says
OMG! This looks incredible. I loooove funnel cake, apples and caramel so this is a must have for me!
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Annemarie LeBlanc says
I’ve been seeing a lot of healthy recipes online but this one tops it all. It has apples and cinnamon and oats! I’m making this for myself… oops, I mean, for my family. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Faye Wilkerson says
Something for everyone in this dessert. Looks delicious. Looking forward to fall and all the fresh apples that it will bring.
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Rosey says
Wow. That looks tasty good. I would love to have it with coffee, um, right now. 🙂
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Ron says
Oh my, how I wish we can do this too at home. Love this homemade caramel. Drooling now!
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Elizabeth O. says
I haven’t tried making my own funnel cake before, but I enjoy eating it. I should try this fun twist to the usual funnel cake. Thanks!
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Ourfamilyworld says
This looks so delicious! Apple crisp is one of my favorite desserts. IT’s so easy to make and it’s so yummy.
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Kam Kay says
I will have a slice please. This looks so so delicious. The recipe looks so easy and simple to make. Thanks for sharing!
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Virginia says
My goodness! This looks amazing! i want some right now! lol
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Terri Ramsey Beavers says
It’s been way too long since I had apple crisp. This looks so delicious and reminds me of my grandmother’s apple crisp she made before she passed away.
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Maria says
Oh delicious! I will have to make this recipe this autumn, looks yummy. I’ll have to try making funnel cake at home, have never tried before!
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Cathy says
Looks awesome! I would love for you to share at this weeks Happiness Is Homemade Party! Have a terrific week!
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Alli @ Tornadough Alli says
This looks absolutely (delightfully) sinful! I need this in my life like yesterday! Can’t wait to give this a try! Thanks for sharing with us over at #WonderfulWednesday
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Whitney @ That Square Plate says
I LOVE this recipe! I love that you use all fresh ingredients! I am making SOON. Glad I ran across this! it’s right up my alley 🙂
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D. Durand Worthey says
Thanks Whitney. You’re too kind. But this really is a lot of delicious awesomeness. It combines a couple of my favorite things, just out of the oven Apple Crisp and warm Funnel cake! Seriously, when I first make it I thought I was going to have to call the authorities to get me off of this thing. It is dangerously good. Let us know how like it.
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AnnMarie says
I have been anxiously awaiting the fresh apples in my area and they will be here soon! This is going to be one of the first things I make. Yum!
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