

They can also interfere with the texture of the crumble, so stick with plain rolled oats for best results. Quick oats, minute oats or instant oats can be steamed, cooked, processed and chopped and are just not the same. When you look at the photos of this crumble you can easily identify the rolled oats in it, which I think adds to the homey appeal. Rolled oats just have to be in my fruit crumbles, and they have to be plain large rolled oats in my opinion. The wholesome nutty flavour is just irreplaceable. A great fruit harvest crumble includes rolled oats.Taste the apples and determine if they might need a little more sugar than called for in the recipe but always err on the low side of the sugar amount better to risk a slightly tart apple layer than to lose their flavour altogether to overwhelming sweetness. Many a great crumble has been ruined by too sweet a fruit layer. Softer apples like Macintosh, disintegrate to mushy applesauce in the baking time and while the flavour will be there, the texture of having a little bite to the apple will not and will be missed. If you have apples on hand that need to used up quickly, make applesauce…use only crisp apples at their peak like the Golden Delicious variety in this recipe. My crumble has to have enough butter to hold it together like cookie dough before baking. Nothing is going to replace the buttery flavour in this recipe and nothing is going to provide the crisp texture of a great crumble like butter. When a recipe uses just a few quality ingredients, corner cutting becomes less and less of an option. Without a doubt, BUTTER! Real dairy butter.You can still have this spectacular Fall harvest dessert in the oven in 20 minutes or so.Ībsolutely nobody is going to object once they experience it’s wholesome delicious taste.Īpple Crisp The keys to the best apple crumble. So don’t feel guilty if those Thanksgiving pies never happened. Turning them into a wholesome comfort food dessert could not put them to better use. With the bounty of the fall harvest in the markets and plenty of beautiful apples varieties to choose from. While I love all fruit crumbles without exception, the joy of a simple but perfect Apple Crumble is what I enjoy most.Īpple Crumble is the absolute ideal fall harvest dessert in my opinion. Rock Recipes even have a dedicated Apple Board on Pinterest with links to everything from Apple Braised Pulled Pork to Sticky Toffee Apple Cake. Apple desserts are among many of my favourites. It doesn’t take long, looking around this website to know that I am very fond of working with apples in the kitchen. I like Red Delicious Apples for this recipe but you can use any kind you like.
