Well, I (and we) always baked Apple Crumble on those grey, wet winter days during my time in Berlin. It is the perfect remedy against those winter blues, and I promise it definitely makes you happy!

For this recipe, I used nuts and oatmeal to get a hearty texture. The frozen banana cream, as a substitute for vanilla ice cream is suitable especially for vegans (yes, there are many of them in the German capital). Topped with the frozen treat and some maple syrup this dish is absolute heaven.

Ingredients (one big baking dish):

Apple Crumble
1 kg Apples (Golden Delicious)
Lemonjuice of half a Lemon
100g Walnuts or Hazelnuts (grounded)
3 tsp Cinnamon
3 tbsp Maple Sirup
120g Butter
70g Oatmeal (fine)
100g Flour (I used one part wheat flour, one part speltflour )
70g brown Sugar
½ tsp Salt

Core and chop the apples into small pieces. Put them together with some lemon juice and nuts into a baking dish. Top with maple sirup and some of the cinnamon, set aside.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Place oatmeal, flour, salt and brown sugar into a bowl. Then cut butter into small pieces and use your hands to mix it with the oatmeal, until you have a nice crumbly texture.

Sprinkle the crumbles on top of the prepared apples, then place into the preheated oven. Bake for about 30 minutes, until the crumbles start to turn golden and the apples are bubbling through.

Banana Icecream
3-4 frozen Bananas

Simply blend the frozen bananas in a food processor. In the beginning it will look like it’s not getting smooth, but just keep on blending, it will turn out in an ice-cream like consistency.

 Serve the warm Apple Crumble with banana icecream and maple sirup ( lazy option: vanilla icecream).

Enjoy! And now, off to Berlin.♥