Burst tart cranberry with sour apples on a biscuit bed and crumble topping, with hints of lemon seeping through; Cranberry and Apple Streusel.
Grab something moist and tantalising as you slip it into your pecker. And, salivate.
This dish will trample any belief that vegan food can’t be super yummy.
Make this:
- As the cold nights draw in and the abundance of cranberries are at their peak, make this dish to savour the delights of this autumnal berry
- When you’ve got a festive dinner party organised and need a dessert that’ll get your guests salivating at your creations
- When you fancy putting a little something special for kiddies luncheon box that will have them all excited
Cranberry and Apple Streusel was inspired by local Winter Fairs while visiting friends in the North. Bundles of small cakes and tarts sold in beautiful casings.
Cranberries are scarlet bitter berries native to central and northern Europe and North America. Rich it antioxitants it protects against free radical damage. It is an effective treatment for urinary tract infections.
Cooking apples tend to be larger than normal desserts with a firm flesh that softens as it cooks to release its tart juices.
Cranberry and Apple Streusel is another one of those warm sensational desserts. It makes for a good party but also to secretly tuck away on your own, while there are no peering eyes.
Blanched almonds, I purchase from a nifty Asian outlet in Hayes. It has an online presence too which can be found here – I love it because it is reasonably priced and tends to be good quality stuff which I use.
Cranberry and Apple Streusel is vegan and gluten-free.
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Ingredients
- 300g cranberries
- approx 400g cooking apples
- 50g unrefined cane sugar
- ½ lemon, juice
- 250g millet
- 40g oats
- 40g flaxseeds
- 60g tapioca flour
- 125g almonds, blanched ground
- 125g unrefined cane sugar
- zest of 1 lemon
- 200g coconut oil, chilled and diced
- Garnishing
- Sprinkle of blanched almonds
Instructions
- Ensure the coconut oil has been well refrigerated beforehand, to ensure a crumbly texture.
- Core and peel the apples and place with the cranberries, sugar and lemon juice in a mixing bowl. Set to one side.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius or if you have convention oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
- In a high-speed blender, grind the mill, oats, flaxseeds, almonds and sugar. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
- Add in the coconut oil. Using your fingers gentle mix the ingredients until no longer lumpy and resemble a crumbly texture.
- In a 12-hole mini cake tin line with oil and parchment paper round the side. (Alternatively, do this with a 9-inch cake tray).
- Spoon in half the crumble at the base of the cake tin. Layer on the cranberry and apple on top. Cover with the remaining crumble.
- Place in the oven for about 25 until the top is golden and the juices bubble over the sides. Remove from the oven and sprinkle over some blanched almonds. Return to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
- Permit the streusel to cool and run a knife around the edges before removing and placing on a serving tray.
