Mix together butter and sugar with a mixer or by hand. Mix together flour and baking power and add to butter and sugar mixture. Pull this mixture together to form a dough. It won't be a batter or a pie crust, but you can form it into a small dough. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.

Peel and slice apples. Mix brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon together. Mix with apples. Squeeze lemon over apples. Mix again with hands.

Take dough out of refrigerator and roll out. Place apples in 8 half-pint mason jars or in a large baking dish that fit the apples. Place dough over apples. It will not be perfect.

If baking in jars, bake at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes. If baking in one baking pan, bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.