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Strawberry, apple and Caerphilly crumble

Strawberry, apple and Caerphilly crumble

A mouth-watering sweet crumble featuring apple, strawberries and sweet honey! Yum!

  • Preparation: 15 mins
  • Cooking: 40 mins
  • Serves: 6

What you need:

  • 750g Pink Lady apples
  • 300g Sweet Eve strawberries
  • 100g light brown sugar
  • 2 tsp finely chopped preserved ginger
  • 250g plain white flour
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 100g Gorwydd Caerphilly cheese
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 75g demerara sugar
  • 1 tablespoon welsh honey

What you do:

  1. Pre heat oven to Gas mark 5, 190°C, 375°F
  2. Peel the apples and cut into 1cm thick slices, and place into baking dish. Sprinkle with sugar and ginger, and distribute strawberries evenly on top.
  3. Cut cold butter into small pieces and place in mixing bowl with sifted flour - rub together until 'crumbley'. Crumble in the Caerphilly cheese (straight from fridge) and stir in the sugar and lemon zest. Use a wooden spoon to lay the crumble evenly on top of the fruit.
  4. Bake for 30 minutes, take out and drizzle with honey before returning to the oven for a further 5-10 minutes. Take care not to burn the crumble.
  5. Serve with creme fraiche 

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Pink Lady apples

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Pink Lady apples have a distinctive crisp texture and fizzy flavour – similar to champagne. It takes 200 days of tender care and, once ripe, each apple undergoes a rigorous quality control process to ensure that the high standard is kept – only the best apples can become a Pink Lady apple. Pink Lady apples are perfect culinary apples as they retain their texture and unique flavour and little, if any, additional sugar needs to be added.

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