Alan's Apple Crisp

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Bake Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:

Crust

1 yellow cake mix package

2 cups white/all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups melted butter

2-4 Tbspn cold water

Cinnamon Sugar Mixture

2 cups granulated sugar

1 cup powdered sugar

½ cup brown sugar

3 Tbspn cinnamon

1 Tbspn pure vanilla

1 Tbspn flour

½ tspn nutmeg

5 large red-gala apples (or apples of your choice)

With pastry tool, mix cake mix, flour and melted butter until doughy. With hands, kneed dough adding cold water until reaching desired consistency. Form dough in to small snowballs and grate dough into pan with cheese grater. Using extra grated dough, form a lightly-packed wall of crust around the pan.

Wash and peel apples. With slice-grater, take apples and slice-grate apples into a bowl. Rinse and thoroughly drain. If desired, sprinkle pure lemon juice on top of apples to prevent browning. Place layer of sliced apples into prepared crust until almost even with crust walls. Sprinkle layer of cinnamon-sugar on top of apples (9 inch by 9 inch pan shouldn’t call for full mixture, but this is what I always use. Remaining sugar mixture can be saved in zip-lock bag for next time or for Bob's cinnamon rolls.). Grate dough on top of apples and cinnamon-sugar to create top crust of roughly ¼ inch thickness.

Preheat oven to 375 and bake for 40-45 minutes.