Apple Fritters

Great breakfast or snack - or even dessert.

Batter:
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 scant cup milk
vanilla
approx 40g melted butter
a few spoons of sugar

this will coat about 5 medium sized apples, though it's a bit of a toss-up. I would do about 1.5 apples per person so theoretically this would be enough for about 3 people. Depending on their level of hunger.

Peel and core the apples, slice them into reasonably thick slices ring-wise, microwave covered in cling film for about 5 minutes or until they're somewhat soft but not falling apart. Cool them a little before you coat in batter (besides, it's hard to handle otherwise).

Shallow fry, and sprinkle with icing sugar as they come out of the batch and go into the serving bowl (so you don't get a bunch of sugar on top at the end and none on the bottom). Serve with maple syrup and/or cream. Or even ice-cream.

Apple Crumble

Nothing wrong with serving apple crumble as a breakfast. It's fruit, carb, and sugar. Standard breakfast stuff. If you have ice cream with it it's dairy as well.

About 1.2kg apples
about 250g flour (plain)
about 180g sugars of whatever colour you feel inclined towards
about 130g butter
spices of your inclination (probably nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom rather than chili and paprika but anyway)

Crumble up the crumble mix. put spices in where you like. If your apples are sour or you need extra fillings, sweeten your peeled and chopped apples. Apple mix on bottom of dish, crumble on top. Well that's the traditional one anyway. Bake for about 40 mins in 180 degree oven. Serve with ice-cream or cream to hungry people for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Or just because it's Tuesday.

'Greg' the Apple Pie

This is a SERIOUS apple pie, suitable for consumption by Henry 8th on a picnic. Made in LARGE individual ramekins.

For two Gregs, use about four medium sized apples. Peel, core and cut up reasonably small, sugar and spice to taste, microwave until they're considerably reduced in size and soft.

Make up some sweetcrust pastry with 150g of flour.

Strain the juices out of the cooked apples and use them to microwave half a handful (or however much you feel like) of mixed fruit in them until plumped up and delicious. Return the mixed fruit with any remaining juice to the apple.

Make up a small 'custard' with one egg, touch of sugar and a splash of milk. Add to the apples, reserving a smidge to glaze the top.

Add half a handful of ground almonds. Combine.

Grease two large individual ramekins and line them with pastry. Fill with the apple mix, lattice the top. Glaze with the reserved egg mix.

Put in a baking tray to catch the drips and bake on 180-200 until golden and bubbling. Take to your picnic spot still in the ramekin to avoid squashing. They should come out nicely, like a pork pie.

Easy Apple Cake

I didn't cook this one myself so I hope the details are right - kids loved it and it was pretty quick to make.

Apply part: peel and chop 'some' apples  and stew them with some cinnamon, ginger and similar spices and sugar to your taste. Cool a little and blitz into a puree. End up with about 200-300g's worth, probably.

Cakey part: used a plain vanilla cake mix. Or you could to an equal-weight standard mix with 3 eggs and 180g each of flour, sugar and fat.

Mix. Bake. Yum. Really moist, so leave yourself some time to bake this one, at 180.