crumble | A little Swiss, a little Canadian

Hello everyone, happy Wednesday!

I’ve made this lovely and delicious cake with yummy homemade apple pie filling and lots of streusel on top!

And of course I used local apples from Crunican Orchards as well as flour from Arva Flour Mills of London Ontario.

Streusel Cake with Apple Pie Filling

Cake:

2 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup butter, soft
1 cup sugar or maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream

Streusel:

40 g unbleached all-purpose flour
60 g sugar
60 g ground almonds
50 g butter, soft

Apple Pie Filling:

5 small apples, peeled and chopped
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp lemon juice
maple syrup to sweeten, if desired

For the Apple Pie Filling:

-In a medium saucepan add the chopped apples, lemon juice and cinnamon. Let simmer on low heat until apples are tender. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.

For the Streusel:

-Combine all ingredients and mix until crumbly.

For the Cake:

-In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.

-In a large bowl, cream butter with sugar until well mixed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Stir in dry ingredients alternately with the sour cream. Fill batter into a 24 cm Springform pan, greased and floured. Spread the apple pie filling evenly on to the batter then top with the streusel.

-Bake in preheated 350F oven for about 45 minutes or until golden brown and tester inserted into middle comes out clean.

Happy Baking! Enjoy!

Ursula

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Now that the kids are back to school I really like to have some healthier treats on hand. The weekend is perfect to take some time and prepare all sorts of snacks, like cookies, muffins or these apple or plum crumble bites. The apple bites are from last week. We bought our first local apples for this season and there are still plums available. Even though the weather has been exceptionally warm, you can already see the first sings of fall. But for now I am enjoying these beautiful warm temperatures:)

Apple Crumble

Plum Crumble

Apple or Plum Crumble Bites

Yields: 12

Crumbs:

3 cups oat flour
3/4 cup spelt flour
3/4 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 cup maple syrup
dash of sea salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Apple Filling:

5 small apples, peeled and cut into small thin pieces
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp lemon juice

-Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Grease a muffin tin or line with paper liners.

-For the apple filling combine all ingredients and set aside.

-In a medium bowl mix together the oat flour, spelt flour, salt and cinnamon, then add the coconut oil and maple syrup, stir until well combined.

-Fill muffin tins with about 1-2 tbsp of crumb mix, pressing down to cover bottom. Add about 1 tbsp of apple or plum filling, then cover the fruit with crumb mix, gently pressing down a bit.

-Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool completely. Store in a airtight container in the refrigerator for 1 week.

–The recipe is only intended to make either the apple or plum bites, double only the crumb mix ingredients if you like to make both.–

Plum Filling: