August 2013
This is a delicious recipe from one of my friends from university. Crumbles are a great way to use up fruits that are a little too squishy or bruised to be eaten whole. Try experimenting with different fruit combinations but make sure you adjust the sugar content accordingly and beware an excess of juicy berries that will make your topping soggy.
Ingredients
For the fruit layer:
1kg apples, peeled, cored, and sliced into small chunks
175g raspberries
75g caster sugar
Half a teaspoon of nutmeg
Half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon
For the topping:
150g flour
75g caster
sugar 75g
butter
1 teaspoon of mixed spice
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius
- Layer the fruit in a well-greased ovenproof dish sprinkling a little of the sugar between each layer. When all the fruit is arranged, sprinkle over the spices.
- For the topping, sift the flour and sugar into a bowl, and rub in the butter until the mix looks like fine breadcrumbs. Add your spices and mix thoroughly.
- Spoon the topping evenly over the fruit, then bake for 40 minutes
- Serve with ice cream, cream or just by itself.
