What’s not to love about a good Glühwäin during the festive season? For me, mulled wine is a must in December, and I like to play around with its typical flavours in my recipes too – hence this mulled wine crumble.
This year, I’ve come up with the ultimate festive dessert: mulled wine stewed fruit topped with a buttery almond crumble! The perfect Christmas treat.
This is a recipe from my book ‘Baking with Anne‘, you can buy it here.
3 pears
2 apples
15g butter
50g sugar
200ml red wine
¾ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
a bit of lemon juice
For the crumble topping:
75g flour
50g sugar
a pinch of salt
60g butter, soft
25g flaked almonds
Makes 1 crumble for 4 people
Prep: 10min – Cooking: 20min – Oven: 25 min
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.
Peel the pears and the apples, core and cut into 1cm chunks.
Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the diced fruit and cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly.
After 5 minutes, add the wine to the fruit along with the sugar, cinnamon, ginger and lemon juice.
Cook the fruit on a medium heat for 15 minutes until softened.
Meanwhile, prepare the crumble topping. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt and butter and rub between your hands until it resembles breadcrumbs. Fold in the flaked almonds.
After 15 minutes, put the fruit into a baking dish measuring approx. 20x10cm. Top with the crumble topping and bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
Serve hot.
