Berry and apple crumble with marzipan
- Published: 31 Aug 14
- Updated: 4 Mar 25
Our shortcut crumble recipe is made with frozen berries and shop-bought marzipan to cut the prep time. No stress, no faff – just a great dessert made with little effort. But you don’t have to tell anyone that…
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Serves 8
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Hands-on time 20 min, oven time 45-50 min, plus standing
Ingredients
- 500g frozen berry mix, defrosted completely
- 4 eating apples (such as braeburn), peeled, cored and chopped into chunks
- 3 tbsp golden caster sugar (see tip)
For the crumble
- 300g plain flour
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 175g unsalted butter
- 100g marzipan, crumbled
- 75g blanched almonds, roughly chopped
- Custard or double cream to serve
Method
- Heat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/ gas 4. Fill a 1.5 litre ovenproof dish with the prepared fruit and apples. Scatter over the sugar.
- For the crumble, put the flour and sugar in a mixing bowl and add a pinch of salt. Melt the butter in a microwave or saucepan and pour over the flour mix, then stir with a spoon to form little biscuity lumps of mixture. Stir in the marzipan and almonds, then scatter the mixture over the fruit in the dish.
- Bake in the top of the oven for 45-50 minutes until the top is golden and smells biscuity and the fruit bubbles through. Stand for 5 minutes, then serve with custard or cream.
- Recipe from September 2014 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 496kcals
- Fat
- 25.5g (12g saturated)
- Protein
- 7.3g
- Carbohydrates
- 60.3g (32.9g sugars)
- Fibre
- 5.2g
- Salt
- 0.4g
delicious. tips
The amount of sugar in the filling will give you fruit that’s still refreshingly tart, but if you like it sweeter increase the quantity by a tablespoon or two.
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