When it comes to comfort food apple crumble is in almost everyone’s top 10.

I was gifted a giant bag of apples from a friend with a tree in her garden. One particularly shitty wet Sunday this was exactly what I wanted.

I think traditional crumble topping can be a bit Meh. I like to include some porridge oats and nuts for some extra texture. The apples I used were pretty sweet so I didn’t use any extra sugar, but if your apples are on the sour side, sprinkle with 1-2 tablespoons of sugar before adding the topping.

Ingredients

1 Kg Eating apples (peeled, cored and sliced into 1-2cm slices)

For the topping

50 Grams Cold Butter (cut into small cubes)

125 Grams Plain flour

25 Grams Walnuts or hazelnuts (chopped)

25 Grams Rolled oats

25 Grams Sugar

Knob of butter

Method

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (Celsius)
• Rub a knob butter around a large oven proof dish (this will prevent the apples from sticking)
• In a large bowl, add the flour, sugar, oats and butter and rub the butter into the other ingredients until it resembles large breadcrumbs before adding the chopped nuts
• Spread the sliced apples into the oven proof dish, and sprinkle the topping mix evenly across the apples
• Bake for 45-50 minutes and serve with custard or cream