Whip up a fall apple crisp with just a few key ingredients

One simple fall pleasure: the smell of baking apples. My oldest son gets all the credit for this dessert. After a beautiful autumn day of apple picking, he asked for a yummy apple dessert, and I came up with this easy and simple crisp recipe.

With just a handful of ingredients, you can whip up this Cinnamon Apple Crisp to warm your house and satisfy your family's sweet tooth.

For extra creamy indulgence, serve the crisp with a scoop of your favorite vanilla ice cream.

If you're lucky enough to have leftovers, pair them with a pumpkin-spiced latte for a breakfast treat.

This recipe is dairy-free, nut-free, sesame-free and vegan.

• Karen Nochimowski, the mom behind MommaChef.com, has loved cooking for as long as she can remember. After friends and family begged to be let in on her culinary secrets, she decided to create a blog featuring the easy, quick recipes that everyone loved. All Momma Chef recipes are made with 6 ingredients or less and under 6 minutes of prep time The goal of Momma Chef blog is to help busy moms serve fabulous meals with little effort and few ingredients to their families. Karen also started and runs Momma Chef's Soup Kitchen and Momma Chef's Little Free Pantry which provides food at no cost to those in the Chicago community.

Cinnamon Apple Crisp

1 cup old-fashioned oats

½ cup brown sugar

¾ cup whole-wheat flour

1 tablespoon cinnamon

½ cup avocado oil, melted coconut oil or vegetable oil

6 Granny Smith apples cut into 2-inch squares (peeling apples is optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix oats, sugar, flour, cinnamon and oil in a bowl. Spray a 13-x-9-inch glass baking dish with nonstick spray.

Add sliced apples to bottom of the dish. Sprinkle topping from the bowl over the apples.

Bake for 25 minutes.

Serves 10

Tips: Save time by not peeling the apples - that what I do! And, you can always change up this recipe by using pears or peaches.

Karen Nochimowski