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Zucchini Dessert Crisp Recipe! Tastes Just Like Apples! My favorite zucchini recipes!

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This year my garden has been successful! Yay for my developing green thumb 🙂 which used to be a dark shade of black lol. I’ve got zucchini coming in so quickly now that I can hardly keep up! That means I need some awesome zucchini recipes to use it in. Here are a couple of zucchinis that got way too big before I got a chance to pick them. When they get this big they get spongy inside but they are still totally fine to cook with. You can scrape the seeds out of the center before cutting them up if you like.

I made this zucchini dessert crisp recipe and it seriously tastes JUST like apples! It’s so good that unless you tell people that it is zucchini they will never know! I served it to our entire family at the cabin (like 20 people) and no one had any clue it was zucchini! Even if you just take a bite of the zucchini without anything else it still tastes like an apple. It’s amazing!

You will need to chop up the zucchini and boil it with lemon juice until tender.

Then you will put it in a 9 x 13 pan and top it with the flour mixture. Bake it for 40-45 min until golden brown.

You will be greeted with warm, bubbly goodness!

Serve it with vanilla ice cream while it’s still warm and you’ll have a real winner! Make it, serve it and don’t tell anyone it’s zucchini. Surprise them at the end and see if they noticed. Come back and share your results with us 🙂

zucchini dessert

Zucchini Dessert Crisp

Sarah Minnesota Mama's Must Haves
Awesome zucchini dessert recipe that tastes just like apples!
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Servings 15

Ingredients
  

  • 4 C Flour
  • 2 C Sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 1/2 C Cold Butter
  • 8-10 C Peeled Cubed Zucchini
  • 2/3 C Lemon Juice
  • To be added to boiling zucchini:
  • 1 C Sugar
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Nutmeg

Instructions
 

  • Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt.
  • Cut in butter until crumbly.
  • Reserve 3 cups.
  • Pat remaining mix into bottom of greased 9 x 13 pan.
  • Bake at 375 degrees for 12 min. (you are pre-baking it)
  • For Filling:
  • Place zucchini and lemon juice in saucepan.
  • Bring to boil.
  • Reduce heat and cook 6-8 minutes until zucchini is tender.
  • Stir in sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg (listed separately in above ingredient list).
  • Cover and simmer 5 minutes.
  • Spoon over pre-baked crust.
  • Sprinkle with remaining crumb flour mix.
  • Bake at 375 degrees for 40-45 minutes until golden brown.

 

 

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  1. Mary Beth Elderton says

    August 21, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Wow! And I have some zucchini! This looks really good.
    ***pinning***

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  2. Jennifer @ Mom Spotted says

    August 21, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    These sounds cool! I might have to try it!

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  3. Bekah Kuczenski says

    August 23, 2012 at 1:19 am

    This sounds so amazing! The perfect fall dessert!

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  4. Joann says

    August 23, 2012 at 7:08 am

    this one sounds so good , for sure a great fall desert

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  5. Melissa T says

    August 23, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    So making this tomorrow!!!

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  6. Kim @ What's That Smell? says

    August 24, 2012 at 9:38 am

    This looks incredible. My kids are so tired of zucchini, maybe this will help them get over that LOL

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  7. Sarah Osborne says

    August 24, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    Yum! I’m surprised by the zucchini in a crisp, but it looks wonderful!

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  8. Sarah M. says

    September 4, 2012 at 6:37 am

    And it looks like apples, too! I will have to try this one day. It looks amazing!

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  9. Janet W. says

    October 17, 2012 at 5:26 am

    This does look really good! I think my grandson would think its apples and would have no problem eating it!

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  10. Sandy says

    September 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    This IS delicious!! It really tastes like apples.

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  11. Krystal says

    August 27, 2020 at 6:16 am

    This really and truly does tastes like apples! I made it for a group of friends, told them it was apple, and no one knew! After everyone ate, I told them it was actually zucchini and they were all shocked and wanted the recipe. This is AMAZING! I did put probably double the spice and ended up using about double the lemon juice. Thank you for sharing this!

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    • Sarah says

      August 27, 2020 at 10:52 pm

      Isn’t it fun to see if anyone notices?? That is my favorite part haha. I’m so glad you all enjoyed it!

      Reply

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