Crapple

Crapple

                                                   My ginger

Crapple is the name my best ginger created for Apple Crumble. It does not mean crap.* Because crapple is the opposite of crap. It is gold. The nectar of the gods. Deliciousness.

*A joke: Annie (my best ginger), had to move her car and came back into my house and declared, “It smells like crapple in here!” I was utterly offended, until I wasn’t. The name is funny because things like that happen, we are funny people.

Here is the recipe. You are welcome.

Ingredients:

Filling-

• 8 largeish apples
• Juice of 1 lemon (or if you don’t have a lemon, half of an orange. It works well.)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 Tbsp flour (white or whole wheat. it depends on how healthy you want your dessert to be)
• ¾ cup raisins*
• water or apple cider (apple cider is better)

Topping-

• 1 cup of rolled oats
• ⅓ of wheat germ (honestly I have never used this and mine turn out delicious, but go for it if you want to go crazy. If you decide to not go crazy just add more flour.)
• ½ cup flour (white or whole wheat. see above)
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp cinnamon
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ butter

*optional

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Peel and slice apples into the roughly the same sized, thin slices.
3. Fill 9x13” with the apples.
4. Sprinkle the lemon juice, cinnamon, flour, raisins on top of the apples and mix it all up.
5. Pour apple cider over the apples until it covers the bottom (the more, the sugary-er)
6. Make topping--mix all of the ingredients in a bowl until it looks like crumble. Crumble means that it is evenly mixed and has formed tiny little balls.
7. Pour evenly on top of apples
8. Bake for 25 min, or until apples are soft.

And there you go, you have crapple.

Serving suggestion: Pour heavy cream over, or serve with ice cream, or even whipped cream. Really, any kind of cream.