Apple Scrapple

I love when friends share family recipes with me. I feel like family recipes are the hidden gems of amazing food, since these are recipes that are passed down from generation to generation.

This recipe in particular comes from my co-worker Sarah's family. Apple Scrapple is her grandmother's version of an Apple Crisp, but her version is so much easier to make, with probably half the ingredients.

What both Sarah and I love about this recipe, is that it is simple. More specifically, in most desserts that use apples as an ingredient, many other spices and sugars are added to give the apples more flavor. This dessert keeps the integrity of the apple by only adding one other ingredient, which is to enhance its flavor.

Ingredients:
4-5 Granny Smith Apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
3/4 cup White Sugar
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons Unsalted Butter or Margarine, room temperature
Cinnamon

Ingredients

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Butter the bottom of the pan that you will use. Layer with the sliced Granny Smith Apples. Once all of the apples are placed in the pan, sprinkle the apples with cinnamon.

3. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a bowl. These ingredients will make Scrapple - this mixture should be crumbly.

4. Crumble the Scrapple and spread evenly over the apples.

5. Bake for one hour.

I highly (read: highly) recommend serving with vanilla ice cream. YUM!