This is The Apple Crumble recipe I’ve been making for years and
years. Ever since my sister made an Apple Crumble by a well known
celebrity chef for my birthday dinner (yes I’m weird, I seriously
requested Apple Crumble instead of a birthday cake) and it was terribly
disappointing.
Ingredients
For the crumble
- 300g/10½oz plain flour, sieved
- pinch of salt
- 175g/6oz brown sugar
- 200g/7oz unsalted butter at room temperature, cubed, plus a little for greasing
For the filling
- 450g/1lb apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm/½in pieces
- 50g/2oz brown sugar
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Place the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour mixture. Keep rubbing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Place the fruit in a large bowl and sprinkle over the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Stir well being careful not to break up the fruit.
Butter a 24cm/9in ovenproof dish. Spoon the fruit mixture into the bottom, then sprinkle the crumble mixture on top.
Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes until the crumble is browned and the fruit mixture bubbling.
Serve with thick cream or custard.