{"id":3668,"date":"2013-02-20T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayabugs.com\/blog\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2014-04-09T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:35:29","slug":"quick-apple-crumble-perfect-for-a-craving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayabugs.com\/blog\/quick-apple-crumble-perfect-for-a-craving\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Apple Crumble Perfect for a Craving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I absolutely love the combination of flour, brown sugar, and butter. I have been known to mix the three ingredients together and carry it around in a baggy to snack on. Okay, this was back in college, but anyways…The one thing I do know how to bake in an apple pie. I was taught by my mom when I was a wee thing and have been making it ever since. I always top with a flour, brown sugar, and butter crumble crust. While I love pie crust, I feel like the bottom and sides give plenty of crust to a pie.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend I was laying around reading and craving the cooked apple goodness, floury brown sugary butteryness, and remembered what I used to do when one of these cravings hit. Cut up an apple, skip the more\u00a0laborious\u00a0crust and top with a simple crumble. It takes all of about 5 minutes to put together and another 20 in the toaster oven. There is absolutely no reason to not satisfy the craving!<\/p>\n

You can use a little more flour or less butter, play around with the amounts, add more topping or less. This is the first time I have measured, and I’m sure I’ve tried all sorts of proportions: they all taste good \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The recipe makes just a single serving. I used a creme brule dish, but any little baking dish would do.<\/p>\n

1 small apple or 1\/2 big apple (green apples works so well for this since they are tart, but I used a red apple since it was what we had and it worked just fine)
\n3 tablespoons flour
\n3 tablespoons brown sugar
\nPinch salt
\n2 tablespoons butter (salted)<\/p>\n

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  1. Heat up your oven or toaster oven to 350 degrees.<\/li>\n
  2. Slice your apple fairly thin taking out the seeded part, but leaving the skin, and lay into baking dish.<\/li>\n
  3. Mix together the flour, brown sugar, and salt.<\/li>\n
  4. Mix in the butter until there are little butter pieces throughout the flour & brown sugar mixture (I use my hands for this since it isn’t a normal crust and heating the butter a little won’t really hurt anything here).<\/li>\n
  5. Sprinkle mixture over the apples.<\/li>\n
  6. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the top is browned and apples tender.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n