Single Serving Apple Crumble Tart

Ingredients

Scroll down to the apple crumble tart recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here's a quick visual + description of what's in this recipe.

• Flour: Flour binds the crust and crumble topping together.
• Oats: Use rolled or old fashioned oats (they're the same), quick oats will probably work too, they'll just be smaller pieces of oats.
• Apple: I recommend a crisp, tart apple to hold it's shape.
• Brown Sugar
• Butter: use cold butter, cut into cubes so it doesn't melt too quickly when preparing it, or in the oven.
• Sugar
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Lemon juice: a squeeze of lemon juice brings out the tart and apple flavors of the apple, It's one of my favorite flavors to add to apple dishes (you could add apple cider vinegar instead, too)
• Salt

Instructions

Scroll down to the apple crumble tart recipe card for more detailed instructions. Here's a quick overview + photos to see how to make this recipe in general.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray baking dish.

2. Make crust: add all crust ingredients to a medium sized bowl. Using a fork, your hand, or pastry cutter, cut butter into other ingredients until you get a pebbly sandy texture.

3. Sprinkle ½ of crust mixture into baking dish. Press down with the flat bottom of a cup or measuring cup. Set aside the remaining crust mixture. You will be using this as a base for your crumble topping.

4. Bake crust for 8-10 minutes. It's ok if your apple crumble tart crust doesn't brown, but it should be slightly harder than before baking.

5. While crust is baking, add topping ingredients to remaining crust mixture. Mix together with a fork or your hand. Refrigerate until assembly.

6. Now that the topping for your apple crumble tart is in the fridge, it's time to make the apple filling. Thinly slice apples and add them to a medium mixing bowl. Sprinkle remaining ingredients over apples. Mix until all apples are coated.

7. Remove crust when it's done. Place apple slices over crust so they're even. Sprinkle any remaining spices from the apples over the apple slices.

8. Sprinkle crumble topping over apples, spread it out over your apples. Bake 25-30 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and apple filling is bubbling. Let cool 10 minutes.

But I like this apple crumble tart best at room temperature or even cold.

You can top your apple tart with ice cream and/or caramel sauce.

I adapted this apple crumble tart recipe from this Caramel Apple Pie Bars recipe that I created for Washington Apples. This recipe is sooo good, and great if you want a recipe similar to this, but with more servings.

Storage/Reheating Tips

Store any leftover apple crumble tart in an airtight container in the fridge for about a week. You can enjoy it cold or heat it up in the microwave.

Substitutions/Tips

• Use cold butter for the crust and topping. It'll help the crust be tender and the topping be nice and crumbly.
• Mixing the crust with a fork or pastry cutter will keep your hands clean and help you waste a bit less of the crust from having to wash it off your hands. But using your hands (or food processor) is faster.
• You can also mix up the crust for your apple crumble tart in a mini food processor.
• Use light brown sugar or dark brown sugar in the topping. Either works. (I like dark brown because it has a bit more molasses for flavor)
• I recommend using tart crisp apples like granny smith apples, pink lady, etc. But you can use any kind of apple.
• I tested this apple crumble tart in a 7 ounce ramekin, which is great. I made it in the shallower dish so you could see it better in the video and photos. If using a wider dish, you may need to double the crust/topping recipe so they're not too thin.
• If you don't finish your tart, you can chop it up and add to yogurt or ice cream. Refrigerate in an air tight container for 5-7 days.
• Other great add-ins: chopped nuts, rhubarb, berries, caramel sauce are all great to add to this apple crumble tart.

Other good dessert recipes

• Single Serving Apple Crisp
• Chocolate Chip Cookie
• Skillet Peach Crumble

Repurpose this tart

Break apart leftover apple crumble tart and serve with plain or vanilla Greek yogurt for breakfast, snack, or dessert. The tart is great warmed or cold in this way.

What to do with leftover ingredients

When you're cooking for one, you often have leftover produce, cans of whatever ingredient, etc. Here are a couple ideas on how to use up the leftover ingredients. It'll help you save money by wasting fewer ingredients.

• Brown Sugar: Small Batch Dark Chocolate Cookies, Small Peach Cobbler with Cake Mix, and Oatmeal Cherry Bars.
• Oats: Baked Oats for One and Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins
• Apple: Apple Pie Overnight Oats, Chicken Apple and Pecan Salad, and Cinnamon Overnight Oats with Apples
• Lemon Juice: Strawberry Banana Milkshake, Shaved Zucchini and Feta Salad, and Sparkling Berry Lemonade

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