Sugar and spice are the name of the game with this dessert! Mary Berg uses her pie spice blend to whip up a warm, cozy apple pear crumble.
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[Music] we are spicing up our lives today and I just made four well three of my favorite homemade spice Blends I’m going to use my pie spice blend to make an apple pear crumble and for this blend all you need is 2 tablespoons of cinnamon 2 tablespoons of powdered Ginger a tablespoon of freshly grated nutmeg you can also use the ground stuff because a tablespoon of freshly grated nutmeg will take a while uh and a little bit of clove for that nice smokiness so I need three apples and two to three paars for the base of this crumble so I’m just thinly slicing those babies up cuz I want this crumble to cook as quickly as possible so when you cut them thin they’re going to cook quicker in the oven and then it’s faster crumble for you which is like a priority for me with desserts if I want a dessert I want it now so I need to do it now all right so I’ve got those nice and sliced up and when you’re looking for apples for a crumble you want to use something that’s good for baking um I love a ginger gold I I actually really like a Macintosh even though some people don’t uh a golden no Golden Delicious are okay Granny Smith that’s also a good one for pears you just want something that smells really nice and bright and fresh and kind of perfumey all right so I’m adding those on into a bowl and onto there I’m going to start building that flavor for that delicious kind of fruity layer the thing I love about crumbles is basically pie but you don’t have to make pastry so it’s a win-win so on to those apples and pears I’m going to add on the zest of half of an orange this is totally not necessary but that little bit of orange zest will make all your friends and family be like are you a genius are you the smartest person in the world that little bit of orange Z just brings a bit of brightness into here you could also do lemon but the Orange is kind of sweet just perfumes it a little bit so into there I’m going to sweeten that up with about A4 cup of brown sugar that’s going to bring in a little bit of Massy flavor if you wanted to you could also just use maple syrup that would be a dream now to give that that spice flavor I want half a teaspoon of that pie spice so just grab that out give it a sniff because that’s going to smell oh my gosh that’s so good listen if you like pumpkin spice I’m not mad about it but just a generic pie spice in your pantry again you’ll look like the baker of the year it’s going to be great now onto there I’m also going to add a little bit of vanilla extract just to kind of bring everything together beautiful and in my opinion with a crumble you can’t really go wrong if you had some uh strawberries or even like a little bit of raspberry action maybe some cranberries hanging out in the freezer you could pop these in here and it would be absolutely beautiful you really can’t go wrong just use some sort of fruit that cooks down nicely so just give that a toss and I’m just going to transfer that into a dish that’s good for the oven so whether that’s a cast iron skillet a little baking dish a pie plate to make it really look like a pie and trick all your friends into thinking you make pie on like a Tuesday if that’s when you’re making this all right this is going to be a big crumble okay now I hate doing dishes personally so I’m just going to use this exact same bolt to make that crumble topping so the first thing I need is a cup of flour you can use any type of flour you want I’m going allpurpose but for a little extra nuttiness you could totally use like whole wheat even spelt flour if you’re fancy that would be great now for a little bit of chew I’m going to add in half a cup of rolled oats if you only have like a quick cooking oat that would be great but roll Doats are nice and kind of chewy and Meaty they give you like a little bit of texture in there now again another half teaspoon of that pie seasoning to bring that seasoning up into that kind of topping mixture and again this is totally optional but I’m adding in some nuts cuz I like PE cans so about 1/4 cup of those nuts 1/4 cup of that brown sugar again just to give like a nice sweetness in here and I’m just going to get in there with my hands just give that a mix up just until everything comes together and then to turn this into a crumble you get half a cup of butter I’ve got room temperature butter here that I’ve just cut into some pads I’m just going to add that on in and this is basically if you got kids or you got someone who thinks that they don’t know how to bake just get them into this because this is where you just get to Mush it all up this is truly you cannot go wrong with a crumble because you’re not adding any liquid into here you’re just kind of mushing that butter mixture together until it starts to look well crumbly really so just kind of go even if you got hot hands you know how people say if you want to make pie if you got hot hands you’re out of luck not with crumble you can have the hottest little hands this side of the Mississippi and you’re good to go all right so this is looking great you basically just want big chunks a little bit of flour is totally fine but what I like to do is grab my crumble mixture mush it into a ball that half of it and then break that over because then you get those big hunks of kind of crumble mixture that butteriness any of that flow mixture that falls down that’s just going to thicken that fruit so so it’s going to be a total dream you can make as much or little of a mess as you want clearly and I’m going to pop that into my 400° oven just for about 30 to 35 minutes let that do its thing I’m going to put these oven mitts on and really dirty up the inside of them so we’ll do laundry later oh my gosh and look at this be it is golden brown and crisp a total dream like you can see that delicious syrupy this to me plop down on a table serve it in a bowl or if you want little bit of ice cream right on top let that melt in hey Mary here what did you think drop your 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