Apple Crumble

I was at home for a few days this last week, which gave me a great opportunity to do some baking. I got the little sisters involved and we knocked up a couple of apple crumbles. Apple crumble is one of those desserts that is relatively simple to make, yet proves popular time and time again. With August coming to a close, Autumn feels nearer and crumble season officially begins!

We made two crumbles, one is a child-friendly (making and eating) 'normal' crumble using cooking apples sweetened with regular sugar, and the other is 'sugar-free' using eating apples sweetened with Stevia.

Ingredients
(regular crumble)
500g (1lb) cooking apples
4 tablespoons sugar
100g (4oz) plain spelt flour (or you can use normal wheat)
100g (4oz) rye flour (or use normal wholemeal)
100g butter
75g sugar

(sugar-free crumble)
1 eating apple (115g)
20g spelt flour
20g rye flour
30g butter
20g porridge oats
3g Stevia (equivalent to 6 teaspoons regular sugar)

Mixed Berry Crumble Pudding

I had a friend coming round for dinner and I ummed and ahhed about what to make for dessert, basically key ingredients that needed eating were gooseberries, raspberries and an egg white. I'm quite proud of having made this dessert up ALL BY MYSELF, I didn't even glance at a recipe book.

Ingredients (to serve 4)
for the fruit:
250g gooseberries
1 tbsp light brown sugar
100g raspberries
for the topping:
50g butter
50g caster sugar
20g ground almonds
½ tsp baking powder
20g porridge oats
1 tbsp creme fraiche
20g rice flour
1 egg white