I have several friends who are on gluten-free diets and when I made this last weekend I thought of you. The holidays are around the corner and though there are a lot of GF pie crust options, it is nice to be able to quickly throw something together that you can eat and that your family will scarf up. My daughter asks for this all the time and she doesn’t know many words so I assume that is a great thing! The best part is you can alter the recipe a hair and have a nutritious breakfast, great for Christmas morning! Enjoy!

Deconstructed Apple Pie Ala Mode

Ingredients

3 honeycrisp organic apples – cored peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes

1/4 cup of organic oats – make sure they are GF

1/8 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk – if you do not have vanilla just add a 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract

1 tsp of organic brown sugar

1 tsp of cinnamon

1/4 tsp of nutmeg

1 tbls of reduced fat butter – I like balade but you can use whatever you like even EVOO

Nonstick cooking spray

Method

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat up butter on medium heat in medium-sized sauce pan, once melted add apples, cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar. Cook until brown sugar is fully melted and apples start to soften, about 5 minutes or so. Add oats and almond milk and cook for another 2 minutes, not too long. Spray a pie dish or small casserole dish with cooking spray. Pour apples into dish and then bake for 15 minutes. Serve alone or over ice cream.

Soy Ice Cream for the lil one and only Stoneyfield Fro Yo for us

Alternate recipe – Christmas Oatmeal

– 3 cups of oats

– 1 1/2 cups of unsweetened almond milk

– 1/8 tsp of sea salt

– Use large stock pot and cook on stove for 5-10 minutes depending on your oats. Want to make sure they are soft before transferring to oven.