Breakfast Apple Crumble

Ever thought about having Apple Crumble for breakfast? Here’s an easy recipe for a healthy apple crumble, that you can eat ANYTIME!

I’m sometimes skeptical of “healthy” dessert recipes because some of them call for sketchy ingredients, that mostly turn out doing more harm than good. As always, I try to cook and bake with mostly whole ingredients and minimize the sugar in recipes, as some ingredients already add the perfect amount of sweetness.

I love apples, they’re actually one of my favorite fruits, but sometimes buying them in bulk results in some of them going bad faster than you can eat them. This is why I decided to give them a different use, rather than just eating them raw all the time.

The first time I ate apple crumble was deep in the Pocono Mountains while traveling in Pennsylvania; it was the best dessert I’ve ever had. But now that I think about it, that apple crumble probably had a lot of unhealthy animal-derived ingredients. So I came up with a recipe to make it waaaaay healthier & completely plant-based!

So let’s go over how to make this plant-based crumble! This apple crumble has whole ingredients like oats, nuts, seeds, cinnamon, coconut oil, and agave, and it’s by far the best healthy dessert-breakfast I’ve ever had. It’s free of refined sugar and the only sweetener is just a tiny bit of agave syrup, plus the natural sweetness of the apples.

I used my favorite honey crisp apples as the base, for that distinct natural sweetness & because their firmness is great for baking. For the topping, I used a mix of rolled oats, pumpkin seeds, cashews, and because I absolutely love chocolate, I added some non-dairy chocolate chips (unsweetened). Also, this apple crumble also turns out to be completely gluten-free!

Bonus! This works perfectly well for meal-preps, it can last you for about a week in the fridge.

Recipe: Breakfast Apple Crumble

Ingredients

For the base:

• 2 apples, chopped
• 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• Ground cinnamon, to taste
• Agave syrup, to taste

For the topping:

• 1 ½ cups rolled oats
• ¼ cup coconut oil
• 2 tbsp agave syrup
• 1 tbsp cacao nibs
• 1 tbsp flax seeds
• 1 tbsp chia seeds
• Optional: pumpkin seeds, chopped cashews, chocolate chips, coconut flakes

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. In a loaf pan, add the chopped apples, the apple cider vinegar, the cinnamon & agave. Mix until completely combined.
3. In a bowl, mix all of the topping ingredients: rolled oats, coconut oil, agave, cacao nibs, flax seeds & chia seeds. Also, add your optional toppings.
4. Pour oat mixture on top of the apples. Cover with aluminum foil, to avoid the toppings burning.
5. Place in oven & cook for 30 minutes.
6. Once it’s done, wait until it’s completely cool to serve.

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