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Apple crumble
DessertVegetarianComfortBaking

Apple crumble

Soft cinnamon apples sit beneath a crisp, buttery oat crumble.

Prep
15 min
Cook
40 min
Serves
6
Level
Easy
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Gather

Ingredients

  • 750 gcooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 60 gcaster sugar
  • 1 tspground cinnamon
  • 2 tbspwater
  • 180 gplain flour
  • 100 gbutter, cold and cubed
  • 80 glight brown sugar
  • 40 grolled oats

Make

Method

  1. 1.

    Heat the oven to 180°C fan and find a roughly 2-litre baking dish.

  2. 2.

    Put the apples in the dish and toss with the caster sugar, cinnamon and water.

    5 minutes
  3. 3.

    Rub the butter into the flour until crumbly, then stir in the brown sugar and oats.

    5 minutes
  4. 4.

    Scatter the crumble over the apples without pressing it down.

    2 minutes
  5. 5.

    Bake for 35–40 minutes until golden and bubbling, with tender apples underneath.

    40 minutes