Nicola Lamb’s Recipes For Toffee Apple Pie And Apple Crumb Loaf

It’s easy to hide conscionable really bonzer apples tin be. Often relegated to little breathtaking regions of nan consequence bowl, they really travel successful a dizzying array of varieties – sharp, sweet, floral, crisp – and each pinch their ain quirks. And now is nan clip to observe apples, truthful this week I’m giving them nan attraction they merit successful a no-bake toffee pome pastry (banoffee’s autumn cousin) and a soft, cinnamon-spiced crumb cake.

Toffee pome pastry (pictured top)

You will request a 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin.

Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr 10 min
Chill 2 hr+
Serves 8-10

For nan case
275g digestive biscuits
¼ tsp good oversea salt
1 tsp crushed cinnamon
140g unsalted butter, melted

For nan caramelised apples
500g apples, I utilized braeburn, but pinkish woman activity well, too
70g caster sugar
30g butter
1 tsp citrus juice

For nan sour pick whip
50g sour cream
250ml double cream
25g caster sugar

To assemble
397g tin dulce de leche (I utilized Carnation)
25g roasted hazelnuts, astir chopped

For nan biscuit base, blitz aliases bash nan digestives into good crumbs. Mix successful nan brackish and cinnamon, past move successful nan melted food and operation good until it has nan texture of very bedewed soil and clumps together erstwhile you springiness it a gentle squeeze. Press evenly into a 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin (put a disc of baking insubstantial connected nan guidelines for an easier merchandise later), starting pinch nan edges and moving your measurement into nan base. Put nan tin successful nan fridge to patient up.

Meanwhile, peel and halfway nan apples, past trim them into moreover slices, astir 1cm wide (you should person astir 400g). In a low, wide frying pan, adhd nan caster sweetener and power complete a medium-high power until it starts to melt, caramelise, and moreover pain successful places – 3 to 4 minutes. Add nan food and apples, past trim nan power to medium-low and fto nan substance travel to a bubble. Lower nan heat, past simmer nan apples successful nan juices for astir 10 minutes, aliases until tender. (Depending connected nan variety, you mightiness get a substance of mushier and firmer pieces.) Stir successful nan citrus juice, past region nan cookware from nan power and time off to cool.

To assemble, hit nan dulce de leche until smooth, past dispersed evenly complete nan biscuit base. Arrange nan pome slices (avoiding nan juices) connected apical successful somewhat overlapping concentric circles and successful a azygous layer. Reserve nan pome caramel juices for finishing nan tart.

Whip each nan ingredients for nan sour pick whip together until you get soft peaks. Pile nan pick connected apical of nan apples, giving it a pleasing swoop. Arrange nan hazelnuts connected top, past decorativeness pinch drizzles of nan caramelised pome juices. Chill for 2 to 3 hours earlier serving.

Apple crumb loaf

Nicola Lamb’s pome crumb loaf.

Prep 5 min
Cook 1 hr 10 min
Serves 6-8

You will request a 21.5cm x 11.5cm x 6cm loaf pan.

For nan cake
2 medium-sized eating apples
1½ tsp cinnamon
150g unsalted butter
75g caster sugar
100g light brownish sugar
2 eggs, astir 100g
1 tsp vanilla extract
150g plain flour
50g wholemeal flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (6g)
¼ tsp good salt

For nan crumb
40g ray brownish sugar
60g plain flour
A pinch of salt
30g oats
40g butter, melted

Heat nan oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4. Halve and halfway 1 pome (no request to peel), past trim it into 2mm slices (you should get astir 120-130g). Toss pinch nan cinnamon successful a vessel and group aside. Grate nan different pome connected nan coarse broadside of a container grater – you request astir 100g.

For nan cake, pick nan food and sugars for astir 2 minutes until somewhat ray and astir 1 and a half times their original volume. Add nan eggs 1 astatine a time, mixing good betwixt each addition, followed by nan grated pome and vanilla extract. Stir done nan barren ingredients to shape a batter.

Line nan loaf tin pinch baking paper, past spoon successful astir 80% of nan mixture. Arrange nan thinly sliced cinnamon apples connected apical successful overlapping layers, past apical pinch nan remaining mixture, smoothing nan top. Bake for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, make nan crumb. Mix together nan barren ingredients successful a vessel (you tin usage nan cinnamon pome vessel for little washing up!), past move successful nan melted food and operation again until a crumb forms.

Carefully region nan barroom from nan oven and sprinkle nan oat crumb each complete nan top. Return to nan oven for 35-40 minutes, aliases until a toothpick aliases skewer inserted into nan centre of nan barroom comes retired clean. Leave to cool wholly successful nan tin earlier serving.

• Nicola Lamb is simply a pastry cook and writer of nan play Kitchen Projects newsletter and Sift, published by Ebury Press astatine £30. To bid a transcript for £27, spell to guardianbookshop.com