Vegan Apple Crumble

Name: Vegan Apple Crumble
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 65 min
Total time: 75 min
Ingredients: 3 large apples; 2 tablespoons vegan butter ((melted - 28.5 grams)); 2 tablespoons brown sugar ((packed - 27.5 grams)); 2 tablspoons all purpose flour ((16 grams)); 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon allspice (or nutmeg); 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats ((85 grams)); 3/4 cup pecans ((chopped)); 2 tablespoons brown sugar ((packed - 27.5)); 1/4 cup vegan butter ((melted - 57 grams)); 1 teaspoon cinnamon

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This Vegan Apple Crumble is so flavorful! Soft, sweet apples topped with crunchy oats and pecans and only needing 8 simple ingredients.

Close up of vegan apple crumble in a bowl with a fork.

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Vegan Apple Crumble

Why you will love this recipe

Perfect dessert: This Vegan Apple Crumble is dressed in a delicious mixture of cinnamon, allspice, brown sugar and butter combined with apples making it a soft, sweet and caramelized flavor. Than it's topped with a crumble topping of oats and pecans creating a crumble with the perfect crunch topping.
Easy-to-Make: Homemade and tasty, this Vegan Apple Crumble recipe is easy to make, only needing 8 simple ingredients. Simply combine ingredients together and then bake with only a few dishes to clean.
Vegan: Yes this vegan apple crumble is vegan and you would never even be able to tell.

If you like easy vegan crumbles check out my other two crumbles Apple and Blackberry Crumble and Blueberry Apple Crumble or my other apple recipes Apple Cider Muffins and Apple Cider Cookies or if you just like easy vegan recipes try my Vegan Peanut Butter Cups and my Chocolate Peanut Clusters.

Ingredients

Check the recipe card below for full ingredients and quantities to make this Vegan Apple Crumble recipe.

Small glass bowl with ingredients to make vegan apple crumble topping.

Apples: The star of the recipe, this vegan apple crumble tastes amazing with all types of apples, I used a red braeburn apple but use whatever apple is your favorite and it will be delicious.
Flour: Helps everything stay together and keeps a nice texture without becoming watery.
Brown Sugar: Adds a sweet caramelized flavor.
Vegan Butter: Used for flavor and helps everything stick together.
Pecans: Adds a nice crunch but you can use any nuts you like.
Oats: This is used to form the "crumble" topping, do not use quick oats make sure they are old fashioned rolled oats.

Variations

Sweet treat: Absolutely any time of the day I’d say is a great time for a Vegan Apple Crumble treat, you can pair it with a glass of homemade oat milk or almond milk or with non dairy vanilla ice cream or Banana Nice Cream and you can even try non dairy whipped cream options.
Carmel drizzle: Another sweet variation is to drizzle a caramel sauce that's vegan directly on top of this apple crumble and if you’ve topped a piece with the ice cream listed above drizzle this caramel right on top of the ice cream you’ll have an amazing dessert.
Chopped nuts: This Vegan Apple Crumble recipe already has pecans, oats and other ingredients but if you’d like a heavier crunch you can add more chopped pecans or other chopped nuts like walnuts, almonds, or whatever you’d like they will just add more texture and crunch to this crumble.

How to make this Vegan Apple Crumble

Prep: Preheat the oven to 350˚F and spray a 8x12 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Start by washing and slicing the apples. (peel the skin if you desire, I left the skin on for texture)

Apple coated in the sugar and flour, in the baking dish.

Step 1: Place the sliced apples either in a large bowl or directly into the baking dish.

Apples tossed in the sugar and flour mixture sitting a baking dish.

Step 2: Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl in 15 second intervals. Add the melted butter, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and all spice sprinkled over the apples. Use your hands or a spatula and toss around until the apples are fully coated.

Step 3: Make the crumble topping, using a microwave safe dish, melt the butter in 15 second intervals in the microwave. Add the oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and pecans into the bowl with the melted butter and stir it all up.

Apple crumble ready in baking dish with topping waiting to be baked.

Step 4: Pour the crumble topping over the coated apples and place in the oven for 65 minutes to bake.

Step 5: Store in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Expert Tips

Storage: This Apple Crumble is delicious stored in the frigid for 3-4 days.
Entertaining, family, friends: This Vegan Apple Crumble gets eaten very quickly anywhere it’s at. You can very easily double up this recipe giving you additional pieces for everyone you’d like to share this dessert with or you might even drop off a piece or two at a friends house (as long as you have another baking dish) this is a great dish to visit with everyone. Everyone will love it and they won’t even know it’s vegan.

Recipe FAQs

Is apple crumble better hot or cold?

It’s a personal preference this vegan apple crumble tastes awesome hot straight from the oven after cooling slightly or with additional topping like ice cream. It also tastes amazing cold right from the fridge.

Does apple crisp taste like apple pie?

Although apple crisp/crumble is similar it’s not exactly like apple pie.
Apple pie has a flaky buttery top crust and a bottom crust to each slice of pie and generally it’s cut into triangle slices. Apple crisp/crumble has a crumble topping, no bottom crust and its scooped on to the serving plate.

How do you make crumble less crumbly?

Butter is the ingredient that helps get your topping just right, it helps with the browning and crispness, follow the recipe instructions closely. But you can adjust the topping if you think it’s to crumbly add a small amount of butter (½ teaspoon at a time) because it adjusts the crumble a lot.