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Oaty Orchard Crumble with Spiced Toffee Sauce

Recipe

A warming Scottish classic, perfect for the cold Winter months ahead!

Serves: 4 -6 people   |   Prep time: 1 hour   |   Cooking time: 75 minutes total

Scottish   |   Dessert   |   Scottish Creations by Kirsten

  

Ingredients

For the Apple and pear fruit base:

  • 400g Peeled/diced chopped apple
  • 50g Dark brown sugar
  • 1.5g Cinnamon
  • 15g Lemon juice
  • 200g Peeled/diced chopped pear

For the Oaty crumble topping:

  • 125g Butter
  • 80g Flour
  • 1.5g Cinnamon
  • 100g Dark brown sugar
  • 100g Porridge oats

For the Spiced toffee sauce:

  • 230g Double cream
  • 225g Dark brown sugar
  • 100g Butter
  • 30g Golden syrup
  • 7g Mixed spice

  

Method

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/180°F/Gas Mark 6.

For the Apple and pear fruit base:

  1. Peel and slice apple and pears.
  2. Toss in lemon juice, cinnamon and brown sugar and mix through.
  3. Place in the bottom of a large pot and cook until the fruit is beginning to soften (around 15 minutes).
  4. Remove from heat.
  5. Spread the fruit mixture on the bottom of a large greased casserole dish.

For the Oaty crumble topping:

  1. Melt butter in a frying pan on medium/high, add flour then oats and blend together.
  2. Add sugar to the mix, spread over a baking tray and cook for 15 minutes.
  3. Stir and cook for a further 15 minutes.
  4. When oat crumble topping is ready to use sprinkle on top of apple and pear mix.
  5. Cover and cook in oven for 45 minutes.

For the Spiced toffee sauce:

  1. Gently heat butter, sugar, spice and half the double cream in a saucepan on medium until sugar had dissolved.  
  2. Add the syrup and turn up the heat. Once incorporated remove from heat.
  3. Allow to cool then add remainder of the double cream and stir.  
  4. Serve warm alongside some double cream, both to be poured over the crumble to serve!