Apple Crumble Recipe (Without Oats)

This old style, oat free, basic Apple Crumble recipe is straightforward to make and is a complete crowd-pleaser. With a crispy, buttery, complete wheat streusel topping and a juicy, jammy apple stuffing, it’s greatest served heat with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It is a easy, cozy and comforting dessert that’s scrumptious past comparability. YUM!

I like baking, and I particularly love baking with fruits. Apples are considered one of my favourite substances, they usually present up in varied desserts on my web site, like Apple Pie, Apple Cake, and Apple Halwa.

Apples additionally make a wonderful base for cobblers, crisps and crumbles. What’s to not love a few dessert with fruit that’s evenly sweetened and baked till fork tender and topped with a yummy, carb-y layer? Nothing, that’s what! It is a easy deal with that the entire household is bound to like.

What’s a Crumble

A crumble is a baked, casserole model dish with a signature crumbly topping that resembles bits of shortbread. Crumbles might be both savory or candy, as long as they’ve a yummy streusel layer. The streusel provides a beautiful crisp texture that acts as an ideal foil for the gentle, tender filling beneath it.

Many fruits can be utilized to make crumbles, together with: peach, varied varieties of berries, plum, apricot, and rhubarb. On this apple crumble recipe, the topping is a crunchy complete wheat streusel that pairs superbly with the thick, jammy apple layer.

Whereas some fruit crumbles add oats to the topping, that might – for my part – make them extra of a crisp. As such, this easy streusel topping options nutty complete wheat flour which provides among the taste of complete grains whereas sustaining a shortbread texture.

If you wish to study extra concerning the distinction between a crisp, crumble and cobbler, this is an excellent article to learn.

About This Straightforward Apple Crumble Recipe

This dessert recipe is extraordinarily straightforward, coming along with nearly 20 minutes of prep. And in contrast to another recipes on the market, the apples don’t should be cooked individually. Every little thing is baked collectively in a single casserole dish on the identical time, making it completely fuss free.

You even have plenty of leeway with the kind of apples you employ, making this completely customizable. I personally choose purple apples in my crumble, however you possibly can simply use a mixture of any varieties that you just please. In reality, you possibly can even save your self a while and choose to make use of canned apples as a substitute.

As soon as the apple crumble is baked, enable it to chill barely, then dish it out. You don’t even want a knife to chop the items! Merely scoop out parts with a serving spoon. I instructed you it was straightforward!

Step-by-Step Information

How To Make Apple Crumble

This basic fruit crumble comes collectively in a short time – simply make the apple filling, make the streusel, then assemble and bake.

Make Apple Filling

1. First, rinse and dry 4 medium-sized apples (500 grams) in working water. Peel, core and slice them, then chop apples in 1-inch cubes.

2. Add the apples to a mixing bowl. Sprinkle them with the next substances:

• 60 grams (or 6 tablespoons) of both granulated, powdered or castor sugar
• ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon lemon juice
• ⅛ teaspoon floor nutmeg (non-compulsory)

3. Add ½ teaspoon lemon juice.

Be aware: The acid within the lemon juice magically makes the apples style extra like apples; when you don’t have any available, swap in one other acid like apple cider vinegar as a substitute.

4. Sprinkle in 2 tablespoons complete wheat flour.

Be aware: This acts as a thickener. You may swap in all objective flour, a gluten-free all objective flour combine or cornstarch as a substitute.

5. Combine very nicely and hold apart.

6. Grease a baking tray or pan with some butter and set it apart.

Make Streusel Topping

7. Add 75 grams chilly butter cubes (⅓ cup) to a mixing bowl.

8. Add ½ cup castor sugar or confectioner’s sugar/powdered sugar (100 grams).

Be aware: Please do NOT use granulated sugar because it doesn’t soften whereas baking and provides a horrible granular texture to the highest streusel layer.

9. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence.

10. High with 1 cup complete wheat flour (120 grams), ½ teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt.

11. With a pastry cutter, minimize the butter into the dry substances until you get a sandy, breadcrumb-y texture.

Be aware: No pastry cutter? No drawback. You should utilize a knife or your fingers to chop the butter into the flour. You may also use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. If butter begins to soften, then pop the bowl into the fridge for a number of minutes till it’s chilly once more.

12. The feel of the streusel ought to seem like moist sand or breadcrumbs.

Assemble

13. Place the apples within the greased pan in a good layer. Moreover, preheat the oven at 180 levels Celsius (356 levels Fahrenheit) for quarter-hour.

14. Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly all around the apples, utilizing both a spoon or your fingers.

15. Sprinkle the apple combination with the crumbles till evenly coated.

Bake Apple Crumble

16. Place the pan within the preheated oven.

17. Bake at 180 levels Celsius (356 levels Fahrenheit) for 40 minutes, or until golden on high.

Oven temperatures fluctuate, so control issues. If the crumble topping is browning too rapidly, cowl it with foil so it could possibly proceed to bake with out burning.

18. Let the apple crumble cool till heat after which serve. You may serve with ice cream, custard or whipped cream. Get pleasure from!

Serving & Storage

The apple crumble might be served heat (which is preferable) or at room temperature. Whereas it’s scrumptious served plain, I wish to accompany it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, custard or sweetened whipped cream.

Any leftover apple crumble must be refrigerated. To reheat, merely heat it within the oven for a couple of minutes after which serve.

Ideas & Variations

Whereas it’s fairly not possible to make this apple crumble recipe style something however superb, listed here are a number of notes to bear in mind:

• A Be aware On Apple Varieties: Pink apples style greatest on this recipe. You should utilize any number of purple apples. Even inexperienced apples which have a sour-sweet profile style good. Should you choose some tartness within the crumble, you possibly can go for inexperienced apples. Should you’re brief on time or working with simply pantry substances, you possibly can even use canned apples.

• Oats: For a crispier texture, you possibly can exchange as much as half of the flour within the streusel topping with oats.
• Flour: You should utilize all-purpose flour or a gluten-free flour combination as a substitute of complete wheat flour.
• Mixing: You may combine the flour with butter utilizing a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. You may also combine along with your fingers.
• Vegan choices: You should utilize both vegan butter or stable coconut oil as a substitute of butter. If coconut oil is in liquid type, then refrigerate till it solidifies. Use maple syrup or uncooked sugar for apple stuffing. For the streusel use maple syrup or powdered unrefined uncooked sugar.
• Sugar: Use both castor sugar or powdered sugar for the streusel layer. Granular sugar doesn’t soften or dissolve and provides a grainy coarse texture which isn’t nice whereas consuming. For the apple filling, you should use granulated sugar, uncooked sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar or castor sugar – it’ll all work superbly.
• Butter: You should utilize both salted butter or unsalted butter for the streusel. If utilizing salted butter, then skip the salt within the recipe.

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This Apple Crumble recipe from the archives was first printed in February 2020. It has been up to date and republished on January 2024.