Blackberry and Apple Crumble
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About this recipe
Healthiness : (147 votes)
Difficulty: 
Comments: Preparing the apples means using a sharpish knife - take great care or get an adult to help.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes plus 5 for partly cooking apples to start with
Number of servings: 4/5
Serving suggestions: Served hot with custard, or cream or icecream
This is a vegetarian recipe
This always tastes much better if you have picked the blackberries yourself!
Crumble mixture can be made in advance and put in the fridge overnight, or in a bag in the freezer for a few days. (Don’t forget to take it out at least an hour before you will need it.) You need clean hands to make a crumble!
This recipe is just as yummy with apple and any soft fruit – or even a mix of fruits. The exact quantities of fruit do not really matter.

Comments: Preparing the apples means using a sharpish knife - take great care or get an adult to help.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes plus 5 for partly cooking apples to start with
Number of servings: 4/5
Serving suggestions: Served hot with custard, or cream or icecream
This is a vegetarian recipe
This always tastes much better if you have picked the blackberries yourself!
Crumble mixture can be made in advance and put in the fridge overnight, or in a bag in the freezer for a few days. (Don’t forget to take it out at least an hour before you will need it.) You need clean hands to make a crumble!
This recipe is just as yummy with apple and any soft fruit – or even a mix of fruits. The exact quantities of fruit do not really matter.
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg (3lb 8oz) apples
- 0.5 kg (1lb 2oz) blackberries
- 50g (2oz) sugar
- A little water
For the crumble:
- 180g (7oz) plain flour (a mixture of brown and white is tasty)
- 100g (4oz) hard butter or hard margarine (straight from the fridge so its cold)
- 100g (4oz) sugar (again brown is tastier)
- 2.5ml (½ teaspoon) ground ginger (this can be left out if you wish)
- A little more sugar for the top
Healthier version
For a lighter crumble topping why not try replacing half the flour with rolled oats
Equipment
- Weighing Scales
- Peeler
- Corer
- Knife
- Chopping Board
- Saucepan
- Wooden Spoon
- Dish
Making and cooking it

Preparing the fruit:
- Peel, core and chop the apples
- Put into a saucepan with a little water and cook for 4-5 mins, stirring occasionally
- Add the blackberries and the sugar
- Take off the heat and pour into an ovenproof dish
To make the crumble:
- Put the flour and butter into a bowl and use a knife to cut the butter into small pieces, mixing with the flour
- When the pieces are quite small, use your finger tips to rub the butter into the flour – moving your fingers around the bowl from place to place. You want to make a mixture with a texture like breadcrumbs – it only takes a few minutes
- Add the sugar and ginger and stir till mixed
- Spread over the fruit in the dish and smooth down
- Sprinkle a little sugar over the top
- Bake in a moderate oven 190°C/375°f/Gas Mark 5 for 30 mins – until the top is turning brown

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Name: Rolo34 | 18th January 2019 |
Good recipe! Turned out lovely. |
Name: Matt | 25th July 2015 |
Its very nice crumble! |
Name: Jake And Joe | 22nd July 2014 |
Me and my 4year old have just made it we hade lots of fun. A good one for dad's and son's to do together |
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