This Gluten-Free Caramel Apple Crumble features spiced, caramel-coated apples and a deliciously crunchy & buttery crumble topping.

Apple crumble. Oh, man. Apple crumble is possibly my favorite dessert, and for that reason, I don’t make it too often. Most of the dessert I make, I’m able to resist for the most part. I taste, make sure it’s delicious enough to be shared, but I usually try to avoid gorging myself on baked goods because that would be way bad for my health and for my waistline.
Apple crumble, on the other hand, I’m powerless to resist. I just love it. The sweet, spiced apples topped with all that amazing, crunchy, deliciously buttery crumb topping. Everything about it reminds me of fall. Mmm, it’s just the best!
In the fall I have major apple dessert cravings so when I was home for fall break, apple crumble was first on my list. I stumbled upon a jar of caramel in the pantry and voila…caramel apple crumble came to be.
This dessert comes together super quickly, and it makes a small portion – just enough for 2 or 3 people! Being the only person in the house, I could not make a big ole’ dish of this, or it would be gone embarrassingly quickly. However, the recipe doubles (or triples!) easily, so it can be made to feed a crowd.

How to make apple crisp gluten-free
I also opted to make it gluten-free by using almond flour, which worked wonderfully and tasted delicious! However, if you would like, you could substitute regular all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, or all-purpose GF flour and all would work equally as well.
This crumble is perfect for fall, for sharing, and for topping with ice cream and caramel sauce, and I hope you all love it as much as I do!
Want more gluten-free apple recipes?
- Paleo Apple Crumble Pie
- Gluten-Free Apple Blondies
- Vegan Apple Cheesecake
- Gluten-Free Apple Cinnamon Scones

Caramel Apple Crumble
Ingredients
- 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon caramel sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon cold butter, cut in half
For the topping
- ¼ cup gluten-free rolled oats
- ¼ cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tbsp cold butter, cut into cubes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a bowl, toss together apple, brown sugar, caramel sauce and cinnamon, until well coated.
- Grease a small ovenproof dish (or two small ramekins) with butter and transfer the apples to it. Top with cold butter. Set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together the ingredients for the topping except the butter. Cut the butter into the mixture with a pastry cutter (or use your fingers). Refrigerate mixture for 15 minutes.
- Spread chunks of the topping mixture over the apples and bake for 25-30 minutes or until the apples are done.
- Serve the apple crumble with vanilla ice cream and more caramel sauce.


Yum, This crumble looks awesome :) I love caramel apple desserts especially during this time of year!
OMGGG this looks DIVINE:) your blog is now my addiction haha.
Check out my blog post…one of my fav. recipies:)
Have a lovely day dear
LOVE Maria at inredningsvis – The Swedish home decor blog
Oh lordie–we are totally in the same boat! The oven is on at our house so often that if I actually felt the temptation to eat everything I made…let’s just say that Goodyear could hire me to replace their perfunctory blimp campaigns. Apple crumble is one of my weaknesses as well–bookmarked!
Hi Rachel! I discovered your website after looking for some gluten free desserts to make for a dinner party I threw just last night — tried out this recipe for the GF Caramel Apple Crumble and it was PERFECT! I actually prepared the topping about 4 hours in advance (without the butter – mixed that in later) and left it on the countertop to give the brown sugar more time to ‘harden/crisp up’…I tripled the recipe and baked in my countertop toaster oven (added about 15 more minutes since I used a bigger dish, but kept the same temp) – it came out PERFECT! My entire family loved it! Thanks for sharing :) Will for sure be making this again! Please keep sharing your awesome recipes!!!
Hi Cristin – I’m so happy to hear that the recipe was a hit!! Thanks for sharing your method and feedback :)
Wow this looks so delcious. and great photos. Thanks for sharing. Simon