Choosing to eat healthily doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to cut out all sweet treats. When it’s cold and dreary outside, there’s nothing better than a hot home made dessert and crumbles have to be up there in the top 5!
This one comes with a difference – the topping is based on a flapjack mixture using oats and golden syrup. The end result is a lovely chewy topping.
High in calories, but I only need half a portion to hit the spot.
This uses tinned apples as they were in my cupboard, but fresh apples would work just as well.
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Apple & Blackberry Flapjack Topped Crumble – 376 calories
Preparation Time: 10
Cooking Time: 25 mins
Serves: 4
Calories per serving: 376
Ingredients
Breakfast Cereal, Porridge Oats – 70g
Flour, Plain – 50g
Butter, Salted – 55g
Syrup, Golden – 1½ Tbsps/30g
Cinnamon, Ground – ½ Tsp/1.5g
Apples, Granny Smith, Canned, Slices – 1 Can/392g
Blackberries, Fresh, Raw – 200g
Sugar, Brown, Soft, Light – 100g
Method
STEP 1
Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Place the tinned apple slices and blackberries on the base of a shallow oven proof dish and sprinkle over 30g of the light brown sugar (the remainder goes into the topping).
STEP 2
Mix the oats, flour and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add the butter in small chunks and rub in gently. Stir in the remaining 30g of sugar and rub in again. If easier, you can melt the butter in the microwave and stir through the dry mixture.
Drizzle over the syrup, mixing with a knife so it forms small clumps.
Sprinkle evenly over the apples and bake for 25-30 mins until the juices from the apples start to bubble up.
Cool for 10 mins (this stage is essential to achieve a lovely chewy texture), then serve with custard, cream or ice cream. Or as I have done, with creme fraiche.
Nutrition Data Per Serving
Calories (kcal) 376
Protein (g) 4.9
Carbohydrate (g) 59.0
Fat (g) 12.5
Fibre (g) 5.9
Fruit & Veg 2.0
