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!
Ingreadient :
3 pears, peeled and diced
3 cox apples, peeled and diced
50g butter
50g caster sugar
Splash of vodka
200g plain flour
½ tsp ground ginger
100g butter, diced
100g demerara sugar
300ml milk
300ml double cream
2 vanilla pods or 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
75g caster sugar
8 egg yolks
Splash of vodka
Direction :
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.