Hot
Chocolate
Ingredients
1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
(optional)
1 cinnamon stick
1¾ pints full fat milk
5½oz good quality chocolate, chopped
into small pieces
Brown sugar, to taste
Freshly grated nutmeg, for dusting
(optional)
Whipped cream
Apple Crumble
By Fatima Chohan
Ingredients
Topping
4 apples. Wash, peel, core
6oz cold butter
and chop into small pieces.
5oz plain flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1oz oats
1 tbsp sugar, any kind but
3oz sugar
preferably brown
Juice of ½ squeezed orange
Method
Heat the vanilla pod and seeds, the cinnamon stick and milk in a saucepan until
boiling.
Remove the pan from the heat and add
the chocolate pieces, stirring until the
chocolate melts.
Whisk the hot chocolate until frothy on
top and add sugar, to taste. Serve with
a dusting of nutmeg and whipped cream
on top.
Serve with marshmallows.
Method
Turn the oven on to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6.
Peel the apples, quarter them, cut out the cores, then chop.
Tip the apple into a bowl with the cinnamon,1 tbsp sugar
and the orange juice.
Butter a baking dish and tip the apple mixture into it and
pat it down.
Chop the butter into small pieces.
Put it in a bowl with the flour.
Use your fingers to pinch and rub the butter into the flour so
look like breadcrumbs.
Stir in the oats and the sugar into the flour mixture.
Sprinkle it on top of the apple in the baking dish.
Bake it in the oven for 40 mins or until the top looks nice
and crispy.
Serve hot with ice cream, custard or cream.
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