One of my childhood favourites!

Think of it as an alternative to apple crumble. Or an apple crumble for apple crumble naysayers.

Soft, warm apple under a comforting blanket of flapjacks. It is absolutely divine! And such a straightforward recipe, almost combining two of my favourites: flapjacks + apple crumble!

To feed four, you will need:

4 large cooking apples (roughly one per person)
Two tablespoons golden caster sugar
Two teaspoons ground cinnamon
A little water

For the flapjack crumble:
4 oz butter
3 oz light brown sugar
2 heaped tablespoons golden syrup
7 oz porridge oats

First, prepare the apples.

Peel and chop each apple into chunky slices. Sprinkle with sugar and cook until they start to melt…

Add the cinnamon and pour into a large oven dish.

Now, make the flapjacks.

Put the butter into a medium sized saucepan.

Add the golden syrup and the sugar and stir until it’s dark and gooey.

Remove the melted butter-sugar mix from the heat and add the oats and stir.

Gently spoon the oats over the cooked apple.

And bake in the oven for about 20 mins – half an hour on 170C.

Soft, indulgent… and brilliant!