Apple and Pear Crumble with Vodka Custard
This Apple and Pear Crumble comes with a little kick in the form of Vodka Custard. The perfect wintery dessert, you can leave the vodka out if you prefer it alcohol free!
Ingredients
- 3 pears, peeled and diced
- 3 cox apples, peeled and diced
- 50g butter
- 50g caster sugar
- Splash of vodka
Crumble
- 200g plain flour
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 100g butter, diced
- 100g demerara sugar
Custard
- 300ml milk
- 300ml double cream
- 2 vanilla pods or 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 75g caster sugar
- 8 egg yolks
- Splash of vodka
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Place the fruit into a pan with the butter and sugar, simmer for 5 mins until just soft. Pop into an ovenproof dish and splash over the vodka.
- Mix the crumble ingredient together in a bowl using your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs, then sprinkle over the filling. Bake for 45 mins.
- To make the custard, put the milk and cream in a pan with the vanilla and half of the sugar, warm through gently.
- Whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar.
- Pour the milk mixture over the yolk mix, and whisk together.
- Transfer this to the pan, continuously whisking until it thickens, then whisk in the vodka and sieve off into a bowl.
Ingredients
- 3 pears, peeled and diced
- 3 cox apples, peeled and diced
- 50g butter
- 50g caster sugar
- Splash of vodka
Crumble
- 200g plain flour
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 100g butter, diced
- 100g demerara sugar
Custard
- 300ml milk
- 300ml double cream
- 2 vanilla pods or 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 75g caster sugar
- 8 egg yolks
- Splash of vodka
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Place the fruit into a pan with the butter and sugar, simmer for 5 mins until just soft. Pop into an ovenproof dish and splash over the vodka.
- Mix the crumble ingredient together in a bowl using your fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs, then sprinkle over the filling. Bake for 45 mins.
- To make the custard, put the milk and cream in a pan with the vanilla and half of the sugar, warm through gently.
- Whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar.
- Pour the milk mixture over the yolk mix, and whisk together.
- Transfer this to the pan, continuously whisking until it thickens, then whisk in the vodka and sieve off into a bowl.
