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Recipes
The world's best crumble
recipe
By
Lucy Williams, Lizzie Kamenetzky and Silvana Franco
Serving instructions
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Serves 6-8
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30 minutes to make, 45 minutes to cook
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Rating
The crumble recipe just got better! Make the most of British apples with this delicious apple dessert.
Ingredients
- 3 bramley apples
- 2 cox apples
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 200g blackberries
- 100g demerara sugar
- 4-5 cloves
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 200g marzipan
- Cream or hot custard to serve
- For the almond crumble
- 200g chilled butter, diced
- 250g plain flour
- 50g demerara sugar
- 75g skin-on almonds, chopped
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Grated zest of 2 lemons
Method
- 1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. Peel, core and dice all the apples and place in a 1.6 litre ovenproof dish. Squeeze over the lemon juice, then carefully stir in the blackberries, sugar and spices.
- 2. For the crumble, in a large bowl, rub the butter into the flour to make a coarse crumbly mixture. Stir in the sugar, almonds, cinnamon and lemon zest. Chop up the marzipan and dot it evenly over the fruit in the dish, then sprinkle over the crumble mixture.
- 3. Put the dish on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes until the topping is golden and the fruit is tender and juicy. Set aside for 5 minutes, then spoon into bowls and serve with cream or custard.
Nutritional info
Per serving (based on 8): 562kcals, 29.6g fat (13.8g saturated), 7.1g protein, 67.2g carbs (45.8g sugars), 0.4g salt, 4.6g fibre
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