This recipe for Easy No Crust Apple Pie was passed down to me from my grandpa on my mom’s side. We called him Papa! Some of my favorite recipes come from him, and we plan on adding more to the website this year.
A super-easy dessert to make with kids requires fewer than 11 ingredients. It’s great to get rid of all the leftover fruit you have in your fridge!
The vessel you bake it in will change whether it turns out more “pie”-like or “cake”-like. This is based on how much space the “crust” is given to rise. As you can see from the pictures above, we used a shorter, stouter baking dish, which resulted in a more cake-like texture. However, if you were to make this in a traditional pie tin, you would achieve a shallower “crust”.
Check out some of our other favorite fruit-related bakes here, with Rhubarb Raspberry Ginger Coffee Cake, Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cranberry Protein Muffins, and Guava Pastries – Two Ways.
Easy No Crust Apple Pie
Ingredients
- 1 tsp Cinnamon For topping
- 1 tsp Turbinado Sugar For topping
- 2 cup Apples Peeled and diced
- 1 cup Pears Peeled and diced
- 1 cup Blackberries Chopped
- 2 tbsp Fresh ginger Peeled and finely chopped
- ¾ cup Non-dairy butter Melted. We love the Country Crock plant butter or Monty's cultured cashew butter logs!
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 cup Flour** You can substitute this with Gluten-Free flour as well.
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 Egg Beaten
Instructions
- Start by mixing together the first two ingredients and set them aside in a small bowl, these will be used to sprinkle over the top of the pie.
- Next, time for some prepping! Wash, peel, and chop all your fruit and ginger. Finely chop these if you want a more jammy result, or coarsely chop if you want a more rustic pie. Place into a bowl and mix together to combine.
- Place your mixed fruit into a greased oven-safe baking dish. Use a pie dish if you want a more shallow "crust", or a deeper baking dish if you want a thicker, cake-like crust.
- Mix the butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl or stand mixer. Mix into a batter and pour over the apple mixture.
- Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon we set aside earlier over the pie.
- Bake at 350*F for 40-45 minutes or until the crust is a golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the thickest part of the "crust" comes out cleanly with no crumbs. You may need to add up to 5-10 minutes onto the baking time depending on your oven or how deep of a baking dish you used.
Notes
- *We typically use Country Crock’s plant butter (the stick version). If you can’t find the sticks in your grocery store, the tubs work just as well in the same measured amounts. Monty's Cultured Cashew Butter (bought online) or Miyoko’s Cultured Plant Butter are other favorites for baking (usually found at Target or Publix)!
- **You can very easily make this gluten-free by using 1-to-1 conversion flour instead of regular flour here. We love Bob’s Red Mill or King Arthur’s versions of this recipe.
