Caramel Apple Crumble Pie

Caramel Apple Crumble Pie — 🍎🍏🍁 Apple pie meets apple crumble in this FAST and EASY caramel apple crumble pie recipe thanks to using frozen pie crust and doctored up apple pie filling to save you time! This apple pie is dense, rich, and is packed with caramel apple flavor! Perfect for fall entertaining, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or anytime you need a FUN and DELICIOUS twist on apple pie!

Easy Caramel Apple Crumble Pie Recipe

I love the heartiness, chewiness, and texture that oats lend to apple crumbles, and my goal for this caramel apple pie was to be more like an apple crumble than just another plain old apple pie. There was nothing plain about this.

I poured the filling into a frozen pie crust straight from the freezer without even thawing it, and filled it right up to the brim. 

For the almost one hour that the pie baked, my house smelled like a bakery from the pie crust and oats, as well as a fragrant apple orchard. And the cinnamon-sugar and buttery caramely scents wafting were aromatherapy torture because all I wanted to do was dive into my oven.

Between the flour and oats, brown sugar and cinnamon, I got my wish for apple-pie-meets-apple-crumble.

This apple pie with crumb topping has apple crumble tendencies with streusel-like texture and warm cinnamon-sugar notes, yet it’s all contained in a neat and tidy pie crust package, perfect to catch the sweet juices released from the apples as they bake.

If you ever need a quick pie to make, with less than 5 minutes of active work time, and that yields luscious and rich results, this is the one.

Ingredients for Caramel Apple Crumble Pie

To make this apple and caramel crumb pie, you’ll need: 

• Unsalted butter
• Egg 
• Granulated sugar
• Light brown sugar
• Vanilla extract
• Spices
• Salt
• All-purpose flour
• Rolled oats
• Canned apple pie filling
• Frozen pie crust (or homemade pie crust if you’re up for it)
• Salted caramel sauce

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Caramel Apple Crumble Pie

To make this apple and caramel crumb pie recipe, simply follow these basic steps.

1. You’ll first need to melt the butter. Then stir in the egg.
2. Add in the sugars, vanilla, spices, and salt and whisk until combined. 
3. Add the flour and oats, followed by the apple pie filling.
4. Pour the mixture into the frozen pie crust and bake until golden on top and the filling is set. 
5. You’ll need to let this apple crumble pie rest for 30 minutes before slicing and serving it.

I highly recommend topping it with a drizzle of caramel sauce and a scoop of ice cream! 

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Caramel Apple Crumble Pie

By Averie Sunshine

🍎🍏🍁 Apple pie meets apple crumble in this FAST and EASY caramel apple crumble pie recipe thanks to using frozen pie crust and doctored up apple pie filling to save you time! This apple pie is dense, rich, and is packed with caramel apple flavor! Perfect for fall entertaining, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or anytime you need a FUN and DELICIOUS twist on apple pie!

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes minutes

Servings: 10

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Ingredients  

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• ▢ ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
• ▢ 1 large egg
• ▢ ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup light brown sugar, loosely measured
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon allspice
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt, optional and to taste
• ▢ ¾ cup all-purpose flour
• ▢ ¾ cup whole rolled old-fashioned oats, not quick cook or instant
• ▢ 21 ounces canned apple pie filling, I used Comstock More Fruit Cinnamon ‘n Spice Apple filling
• ▢ 1 9-inch frozen pie crust, or make your own using your favorite recipe
• ▢ caramel sauce or caramel ice cream topping, optional but recommended for drizzling*
• ▢ ice cream or whipped topping, optional

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Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350F. In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter, about 1 minute on high power.
• Allow the butter to cool momentarily so you don’t scramble the egg; then add the egg, sugars, vanilla, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, salt, and whisk to combine until batter is smooth (All spices and salt should be added to taste and use what you have on hand; omitting what you don’t have and mixing and matching with other spices such as ginger or pumpkin pie spice is okay).
• Add the flour, oats, and stir to incorporate. Fold in the apple pie filling.
• Pour filling mixture into frozen pie crust (I didn’t bother pre-thawing it)and lightly smooth filling with a spatula. It’s okay to fill pie crust up nearly to the brim; I did and it did not overflow. As insurance, place pie crust on a baking tray so if it does overflow a bit, it won’t pool in the bottom of the oven.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until top has just set and is not jiggly, and is golden. I baked mine for about 54 minutes and when I took it out of the oven, the filling had risen and was a bit domed and puffed, and as pie cooled, the dome sank and it flattened out.
• Allow pie to cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing and serving. Prior to serving, optionally drizzle with caramel sauce or serve with ice cream.

Notes

• *For the caramel sauce, you can use store-bought, or make your own. My favortie caramel sauce recipes are: The Best and Easiest Salted Caramel Sauce, Dark Rum Caramel Sauce, and Vanilla Caramel Glaze.
• Pie should be kept covered and will keep in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. I prefer refrigerating it rather than keeping it at room temperature and I store my pie inside a large two-gallon sized plastic food storage bag in the refrigerator.

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece, Calories: 185kcal, Carbohydrates: 32g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.2g, Cholesterol: 29mg, Sodium: 68mg, Potassium: 50mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 20g, Vitamin A: 167IU, Vitamin C: 0.03mg, Calcium: 16mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Originally published November 2012. Republished October 9, 2019 and republished September 20, 2024 with updated text.