This turns a classic apple crumble into something with a proper apple-pie spice running through it, by rubbing an apple pie chai powder into the crumble topping. Underneath, halved fresh apples soften into a soft pie-style filling while the topping bakes deep golden and crisp. It is the chai powder in the crumb that does the work, no jar of mixed spice needed.
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Best straight from the oven with custard, vanilla ice cream or a spoon of clotted cream.
You'll need
- 25g Drink Me Chai Apple Pie Chai Latte powder (1 standard serving, for the topping)
- 150g plain flour
- 100g unsalted butter, fridge-cold and cubed
- 75g soft light brown sugar
- A small pinch of fine sea salt
- 6 fresh dessert apples (Cox or Braeburn), halved with the cores scooped out
- 2 tablespoons of golden caster sugar (for the apple base)
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice (to stop the apple browning)
- 1 ovenproof 25cm baking dish
- To serve: warm fresh thick vanilla custard, vanilla ice cream or clotted cream
Method
- Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan, gas 4).
- Halve the apples and scoop out the cores, then pack them cut-side-up in a 25cm baking dish.
- Scatter the caster sugar over the apples and drizzle with the lemon juice to stop them browning.
- For the crumble, sift the flour and salt into a bowl and add the cold cubed butter.
- Rub the butter into the flour with cold fingertips until you have rough, pea-sized crumbs; keep your hands cool, or warm hands melt the butter and the crumble goes pasty.
- Stir in the brown sugar.
- Sift the chai powder over and stir it through evenly; sifting stops it clumping in the topping.
- Scatter the crumble over the apples, mounded in the middle, leaving a few gaps for steam to escape.
- Bake for thirty-five minutes, until the topping is deep golden and the juices bubble at the edges.
- Tip: rest it for five minutes before serving, and serve hot with custard, ice cream or clotted cream.
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Brewed with: Drink Me Chai Apple Pie Chai Latte, 250g
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