Thermomix® Apple Crumble Bars
These delicious Apple Crumble Bars feature a buttery base, tender cinnamon-spiced apples and a golden crumble topping. Easy to prepare with your Thermomix®, they’re lovely with a cuppa or served warm with custard or ice cream. Perfect for making ahead, and they freeze beautifully too!
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Servings: 16
Equipment
- TM5/TM6 or TM7
- 20 × 20 cm square baking tin
- Baking paper
Ingredients
Base & Crumble topping
- 200 g butter
- 300 g plain flour
- 70 g caster sugar
- 50 g brown sugar
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Apple filling
- 600 g apples weighed after peeling and coring, cut into small pieces
- 35 g brown sugar
- 30 g honey
- 15 g lemon juice
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- A pinch of nutmeg optional
- 15 g cornflour mixed with 15 g water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven 170°C fan-forced / 190°C conventional and line your tin, leaving some baking paper overhanging for lifting out.
- Place butter in the mixing bowl. Melt 3–4 min / 50°C / speed 2, until melted.
- Add the remaining base ingredients. Mix 10 sec / speed 4. I
- Reserve one-third of the mixture in the fridge for the topping. Press the remaining two-thirds evenly into the tin.
- Bake the base for 15–18 minutes, until lightly golden.
- Meanwhile, place apples, brown sugar, honey, lemon juice, cinnamon and optional nutmeg into the mixing bowl. Cook 8 min / 100°C / reverse / spoon speed.
- Add the cornflour slurry. Cook 2 min / 100°C / reverse / spoon speed.
- Spread the apple filling over the baked base. Crumble the reserved mixture over the top.
- Bake for 25–35 minutes, until golden.
- Cool completely in the tin before cutting. For neater squares, chill for an hour once cooled.