大象传媒

INGREDIENTS

• 400g聽plain flour

• 250g聽caster sugar

• 75g聽brown sugar

• 275g cold unsalted聽butter, diced聽

METHOD

1. Blend all ingredients in a blender just till its starts to form a dough.

2. Bring it together with your hands till it becomes a dough and press it evenly on to a tray and freeze till firm ,around 1hr

3. Blend again till it resembles course bread crumbs spread evenly on an oven tray and bake at 180 degrees celsius for 6-10 minutes till its golden.

4. At this point you can either let cool and set on the tray, blend roughly again and sprinkle on top of聽 apple compote that's been heated up or whilst the crumble is still warm cut it with a ring cutter and serve it neatly on top of the crumble with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some nice creme fraiche.

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