Grandiose crumble-baked apples

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • 8 Apples (e.g. Braeburn)
  • 1 Organic Lemon
  • 1 Vanilla pod
  • 100 g cold marzipan paste
  • 50 g chopped almonds
  • 1 TEASPOON Cinnamon
  • 4 TABLESPOONS dried cranberries
  • 150 g Flour
  • 75 g soft butter
  • 75 g demerara sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 8 scoops of ice cream (e.g. vanilla ice cream)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Baking dish
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Grease the casserole dish. Wash apples, grate dry. Cut off the lid, remove the core and carefully hollow out the apples with a tablespoon, leaving a 0.5-1 cm thick rim. Cut the lid of the apples and the hollowed out pulp into small pieces.

  2. 2

    Wash the lemon hot, grate dry and finely grate the peel. Halve the lemon, squeeze the juice. Drizzle the inside of the apples and apple pieces with lemon juice.

  3. 3

    For the filling, halve the vanilla pod lengthwise. Scratch out the pulp with the back of a knife. Roughly grate the marzipan paste with a grater. In a bowl, mix apple pieces, lemon peel, vanilla pulp, marzipan, almonds, cinnamon and cranberries.

  4. 4

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 180 °C/circulating air: 160 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Put flour, butter, sugar and 1 pinch of salt in a bowl and knead into a crumbled dough with your hands. Place apples close together in the form.

  5. 5

    Spread the apple and marzipan filling evenly into the apples with a teaspoon. Top apples with coarse crumbles. Bake apples in a hot oven for about 40 minutes. After about 30 minutes, cover with aluminium foil if necessary so that the crumbles do not burn.

  6. 6

    Serve baked apples with ice cream. (We swear by the Speculoos variety? Specu-Love. from Ben & Jerry's with speculoos!).