Ever wish you could eat apple pie with your hands? I mean, who wants to go through all the trouble of eating it bite by bite with a spoon, when you can have the satisfaction of picking it up and eating it as finger food?? Enter in – Apple Streusel Pizza. A whole ‘nother kind of delicious apple pie!!
For this pizza, you will need pizza dough. Try my Perfect Pizza Dough recipe. It made the perfect mix of sweet and salty for this pizza. Roll out the dough and place it on a floured pizza pan. It’s ready for the toppings.
The toppings for this “apple pie” couldn’t be more straightforward. Peel, core, and dice up 4 apples. Melt 1 Tbsp of butter in a skillet (I recommend cast iron) and toss in the apples. To the apples, add the lemon juice, 1 Tbsp of sugar and flour, 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon, and a dash of vanilla. Cook 5-10 minutes over medium heat until apples start to soften. Remove from heat and add an extra Tbsp of butter.
Meanwhile, make the streusel topping. Whisk flour, light brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and dash of salt together. Cut 1/4 cup of cold butter into small cubes and crumb into the flour mixture. Store in the fridge until ready to use.
Top the pizza dough with the apple and butter mixture. Add the streusel topping to the top of the apples. Bake in a preheated oven at 450 for 10-15 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the streusel topping is nicely browned.
Slice and enjoy your apple “pie”! Let me know what you think!
Apple Streusel Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 pizza dough crust
- 4 granny smith apples peeled, cored, and diced
- 2 Tbsp butter divided
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp flour
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- dash vanilla extract
Streusel Topping
- ½ cup flour
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- dash salt
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup butter cold and cubed
Instructions
Apples
- Peel, core, and dice apples. Place in a bowl.
- Add lemon juice, sugar, flour, ¼ tsp cinnamon, and vanilla to the apple and mix well.
- In a skillet over medium heat, melt 1 Tbsp butter.
- Cook apple mixture, stirring frequently, until apples soften (5-10 minutes). Remove from heat.
- Add 1 Tbsp more of butter to apples and let melt.
Streusel Topping
- In a bowl, crumb together all the streusel topping ingredients.
- Store in the fridge until ready to use.
Pizza
- For this recipe, you will need pizza dough spread out over a floured pizza cooking tray. Try my recipe for Perfect Pizza Dough which makes 2 pizzas worth of dough!
- Once pizza dough is spread on floured pizza pan, spread the cooked apples and melted butter mixture all around the pizza.
- Then, spread streusel topping over the top of the apples.
- Bake at 450° in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes until the crust is golden.
- Slice and enjoy!
Wow this looks so so so so yummy!!! I love dessert pizza. Thanks for writing this up, will be making this soon (I have some ‘old’ tart apples that are perfect for this)
I love apple desserts and this looks so good! Can’t wait to give it a try!
Let me know what you think!
This sound absolutely delicious. I love apple pie and this is a fun variation of that . Thanks for sharing.
Oh my word, my mouth is watering! This is an awesome take on Apple Streusel, I love it!
This look so delicious!! I can’t wait to try it!!!
This looks amazing! I have that pizza crisper too so now I will use it for the apple streusel pizza! Thanks for sharing!