How about preparing this Stuffed apples with crumble topping for a weekend breakfast? You could top with a few oats, swap the custard for yoghurt - or just go ahead and have custard for breakfast. I won’t tell. I made this pud as a little treat that probably should have been enjoyed sat at the dining table over a leisurely chat. In all honesty, they didn’t even make it out of the kitchen. Chris and I just hunched over the kitchen surface and gobbled them up the moment we’d finished taking the photos. One of the (very few) disadvantages of blogging with food is having to adjust your palate to luke-warm food. So my excuse is that they simply needed eating as quickly as possible! For this easy Stuffed apples with crumble topping dessert, you’re going to carefully hollow out some apples using a sharp knife. It’s important to not to cut out the bottom of the apples - otherwise you’ll just have some sad looking apples sitting in a blueberry bath by the time you take it out of the oven. You need the apple to act like a kind of bowl. It’s a little tricky, but easier once you’ve done the first one. The hole needs to be about 3.5cm-4cm across so you can fit in plenty of blueberries - and also to ensure you have enough surface area to top with the crumble. Once you’ve hollowed out the apples, brush the insides with some lemon juice, This is particularly important if you’re preparing ahead - to stop the apple going brown. The filling itself, is a combination of blueberries, sugar for a bit of sweetness, and a little cornstarch to help thicken the filling slightly during cooking. The crumble topping is a regular mix of butter, sugar and flour, but you can also add nuts or oats or demerara sugar if you wish. I made my own custard for this. If you’ve never made custard before, give it a go. It’s surprisingly easy. I’ve included instructions for this, and also the nutritional info for the apples with and without the custard.
If you love crumble recipes like I do, check out my cherry crumble cake or apple crumble cookies.
Stuffed apples with crumble topping Recipe:
Nutritional info obtained from caloriecount.about.com - per serving without custard.
