Apple Pie Granola is a bowl filled with sweetened baked apples with a crunchy homemade granola topping and salted caramel sauce. It’s the perfect fall breakfast. Every bite is a mix of your favorite fall flavors. And why is this such a perfect breakfast ? You’ll need only simple ingredients, it’s an easy recipe, and the whole house smells terrific. Serve warm for a delicious breakfast that belongs to fall.
Mix the oil, honey, oats walnuts, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl. Make sure everything is covered.
2 tablespoons honey, 2 tablespoons sunflower oil, 1 cup rolled oats, 2 tablespoons walnuts, ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Spread on a sheet pan in an even layer and bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
Mix everything well with a spatula and put back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
Let the Granola cool slightly.
Allow it to cool before you mix in the raisins. Mix the raisins with this delicious Granola.
3 tablespoons raisins
Baked Apples
Mix the apple with the lemon juice and the flour and make sure the apple is well covered with the flour.
3 Granny Smith, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 teaspoons lemon juice
Melt butter in the pan.
1 tablespoon butter
Reduce the heat to low and bake the apples for 5 minutes. Stir regularly with a wooden spoon.
Then add the gingerbread spices and the apple juice and mix everything.
½ teaspoon gingerbread spices, ¾ cup apple juice
Turn to medium heat so that the apple juice comes to a boil, then turn down the heat, and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
Topping
Butter 4 ramekins, so that the apple mixture does not stick.
Divide the stewed apples over the ramekins.
Combine oats with Granola and brown sugar.
1 cup granola, ¼ cup brown sugar, ⅓ cup oatmeal
Top each ramekin with the granola mixture.
Put ½ tablespoon of butter on top.
2 tablespoons butter
Put the ramekins on a baking sheet and bake them in the oven for 25 minutes.
Optional (but very tasty): pour some (salted) caramel sauce over the trays.
4 tablespoons salted caramel sauce
NOTES
1. Granny Smith - this sour apple still has a bite after baking. The fresh and sour flavor combines excellently with the sweet Granola. You could also opt for a Jonagold apple. Don’t use a stew apple because they will fall apart, and you’ll get apple butter instead of pie.2. Gingerbread spices - these belong in a Dutch apple pie, so why not use them here. You could substitute it with cinnamon.3. Oven - When using a conventional oven, set the temperature to 320 °F (160 °C). In a convection oven, 285 °F (140 °C) is enough.4. StorageEat this breakfast when it’s still warm. Unfortunately, you can’t store it.However, you can store the Granola:
Room temperature - In an airtight sealed container, the Granola will keep for up to 2 months.
Freezer - Although the structure changes slightly, it is possible to store Granola in the freezer. Place the Granola in an airtight box or bag (with as little air as possible) and store it in the freezer for up to three months.