It really doesn't get much better than a freshly baked, warm apple crumble, served with homemade custard or double cream poured on top.
This might just be one of the simplest dessert recipes on our site, requiring only a handful of ingredients – most of which you'll have in your store cupboard already, making it the perfect dessert to rustle up last minute to satisfy any sweet cravings (or if guests come over unexpectedly.
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Yields:
4 serving(s)
Prep Time:
15 mins
Cook Time:
45 mins
Total Time:
1 hr
Cal/Serv:
319
Ingredients
125g
plain flour
50g
butter, cubed and chilled
50g
golden caster sugar
450g
apples, peeled, cored and sliced
Directions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan) mark 4. Put the flour into a bowl. Add the butter and rub in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine bread-crumbs. Stir in half the sugar. Put aside.
Step 2
Arrange half the apples in a 1.1 litre pie dish and sprinkle with the rest of the sugar. Add the remaining apple slices to the dish.
Step 3
Spoon the crumble mixture over the fruit. Bake in the oven for about 45min or until the fruit is soft. Serve hot with custard or a drizzle of double cream.
GH TIPS:
If you have other fruit to hand such as blackberries, pears, rhubarb or cherries – or even a bag of mixed berries in your freezer, then these can all be used.
Don't worry if your fruit is looking a little battered or bruised, they don't need to be at their best as you'll be cooking them down which draws out their natural sweetness.
Try getting creative with your crumble toppings. Your favourite crushed-up biscuits are always welcome, while adding nuts, chocolate chips, desiccated coconut or rolled oats to your flour and butter mixture can bring lovely layers of flavour and texture, too.
Prefer a change from the traditional apple crumble? Why not try an easy apple strudel recipe, which uses ready made filo pastry for a dinner party dessert in a flash.
Check out our favourite crumble recipes, including everything from a classic rhubarb crumble to a boozy negroni crumble perfect for your next Sunday lunch.
An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).
