Apple Bake with Double Ginger Crumble
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Apple Bake with Double Ginger Crumble
Recipe by: Opies, bennettopie. com
Serves: 6- 8 Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
• 3 large, firm baking apples( 680-775g total)
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• A few gratings of fresh nutmeg
• Pinch of ground cloves
• 2 tsp Opies Stem Ginger Syrup( or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
• 40g granulated sugar
• Pinch of salt
For the topping:
• 150g unsalted butter
• 50g demerara sugar
• 50g granulated sugar
• ¼ tsp coarse salt or sea salt
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 260g plain flour( add more if needed)
• 1 Opies Stem Ginger ball, diced
• 10g finely chopped Opies Crystallised Stem Ginger( or more to taste)
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 190 ° C / 170 ° C fan. Peel, halve and core the apples, then cut into 1-inch wedges. Arrange them into the base of a 9x13-inch baking dish. In a separate bowl mix cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger syrup, sugar and salt. Pour this mixture over the apples and toss to coat.
2. Melt the butter in a large bowl or saucepan. Stir in both sugars, then add salt, baking powder and the diced stem ginger ball. Mix in the flour and crystallised ginger until a crumbly texture forms, adding an extra tbsp of flour if needed.
3. Sprinkle the crumble evenly over the apples. Bake for 30- 35 minutes until the crumble is golden and the apples are tender when pierced.
4. Leave to cool for 10- 15 minutes before serving with custard, cream, ice cream- or all three!
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