Apple crumble / crisp chocolate cake cup 烤蘋果酥朱古力蛋糕杯

Apple crisp or apple crumble is a dessert consisting of baked chopped apples, topped with a crisp streusel crust. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger, and/or nutmeg. Wikipedia

Most elementary kids will learn or will make this at school here in Canada. My girls both learned to make this at school in their early elementary school years. I think I only did this once or twice before as my dinner dessert. I always want to make something extraordinary or special kind of desserts for my guests. But I know apple crumble/crisp is still a favourite dessert for some of my friends. They always love to serve it with ice cream. Since I have a chocolate cake in my freezer, I decided to use it together with Apple Crisp and serve it in cups. I placed chocolate cake at bottom of the cup and then scoop the apple crisp (warmed) on top. And of course it is served with ice cream! There is no better way to serve warm apple crisp with ice cream! For chocolate cake recipe, please refer to my Chocolate Cake recipe in my other blog post.

Ingredients

Topping
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup unsalted butter, diced into small cubes
Apple filling
• 2 lbs Granny Smith apples (at room temperature), peeled, sliced thin and diced
• 2 2/3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted*
• 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
• 3 Tbsp water
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup light-brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch salt

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together 1/2 cup flour, the oats, 1/2 cup brown sugar, the baking powder, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp salt for 30 seconds. Add diced butter and using clean fingertips, rub butter into dry mixture until it comes together into small crumbles. Transfer to refrigerator to chill while preparing filling.
• In a small mixing bowl, whisk together melted butter and flour until well blended, then mix in water, lemon juice and vanilla bean paste. Stir in 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, the nutmeg and pinch of salt. Pour butter mixture over apples and toss to evenly coat, then pour apple mixture into a buttered 8 by 8-inch baking dish and spread into an even layer. Remove topping from refrigerator and sprinkle into crumbles evenly over top of apples. Bake in preheated oven (I baked it in lower half of the oven to ensure the apples cooked through and so the top didn't become too browned) until top is golden brown and apples are tender when pierced with a toothpick, about 35 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to rest 10 minutes before serving (I let mine cool longer than 10 since I was serving in glass cups so they weren't all steamy). Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream.
• *I know this is a random amount, it's simply the amount that's left after using 1/3 cup butter in the crisp topping - just wanted to use that full stick of butter :).
• Recipe Source: Cooking Classy

Recipe from: http://www.cookingclassy.com/apple-crisp/

Served with Ice Cream!