Pear & Apple Crumble Slices

Here's another favourite of mine. It's simple and extremely delicious to be served at anytime. I especially love using all my leftover fruits on it especially fruits which is less juicy. Nectarine should be an excellence choice in this recipe as well. This actually reminded me of the first piece of pineapple slices that I've eaten many years back at a buffet restaurant. I never knew how is a perfect slices surposed to look like, not untill today! This is soooooo much better.

Ingredients for Base Crust :

185gm all purpose flour

145gm butter

25gm sugar

1 egg yolk

2 tbps cold water

Method :

(1) combine flour & sugar and rub in butter; mix well.

(2) then add in egg yolk & cold water for form a fine crumb.

(3) press mixture to a 9x13" tray lined with greaseproof paper.

(4) bake at preheated oven 180'C for 15 mins and leave aside to cool.

Ingredients for Top Crumb :

125gm all purpose flour

125gm butter

55gm sugar

(beat butter & sugar till creamy, stir in flour till form soft crumble dough)

*2 green apples & 2 green pears, cleaned & cubed

*200gm toasted whole almond, crashed

*1 lemon rinds

TO ASSEMBLY :

(1) combine apples & pear with lemon rinds, spread over the cooled base crust.

(2) top with crumble mixture and crashed almond.

(3) now, bake at preheated oven 180'C for 40 mins.

(4) cool completely before cutting and dust with icing sugar.

I'm going to make one more batch on next week. Are you coming over to join me???