What do you have for dinner when you're home alone, pregnant, and the fridge is almost empty? Apple crumble sounded good, so that's what I made. It was quick and easy and made me feel a little bit better about watching this evening's debate.
Who wouldn't want a nice big bowl of this for dinner? Or dessert, if you want to go all traditional.
I started with a recipe from Tastes Better From Scratch and tweaked it and it was delicious. Here's how:
First, make the crumble. You can mix together the butter, flour, oats, cinnamon, sugar, and baking powder with a fork or a pastry cutter. Or you can do what I did and use your fingers, which is either way more fun or a way to justify not having a super cool pastry cutter like this one that I kind of totally want.
Then, slice the apples and put them in a greased loaf pan. This would also be a good time to start preheating the oven.
Next, mix up the sauce for the apples. I used the same coffee mug for melting the butter and making the sauce. Because I hate doing extra dishes.
Pour sauce over apples, stir to combine. Then pour the crumble over the top of that and toss it in the oven for 25 minutes, or longer if you like soggier apples. And you get this beauty:
It's crisp, crumbly, and makes about 2 dinner-sized portions. Or more if you're going for dessert-sized portions.
Ingredients
Crumble:
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp butter, softened
Apple goodness:
3 medium apples (I used granny smith)
1 tbsp butter, melted
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp flour
1 1/2 tbsp water
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon
Directions
Mix together all crumble ingredients. Set aside.
Thinly slice apples into loaf pan.
Mix together all other ingredients for apple goodness. Pour over apples and stir.
Pour crumble over apples and bake at 375◦ for 25 minutes.
Enjoy with vanilla ice cream, if available.
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