With the cold now creeping in more and more, its not just time to enjoy hot comforting savoury dishes but also time to bring out the warm comforting desserts as well. Blackberry Apple Spelt Crumble is just a small twist on a very traditional British dessert.

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Spelt Flour

I have to admit to being ignorant of spelt flour for a pretty long time. I only really became aware of it by reading the blog Angie’s Recipes. She uses it in a lot of her wonderful recipes and wanting to try a few of them out I bought some spelt flour and have seriously grown to love it. Don’t know much about spelt flour? Don’t worry you are not alone I had to do a good bit of Googling as well but here is a great little rundown on spelt flour for you.

 

It has a subtle sweet nutty flavour to it and a slightly courser texture than say a plain all purpose flour and the one I used in this recipe was a whole wheat spelt four. Giving the crumble topping for this dish a lovely golden colour to it.

 

 

Try and use spelt four for this recipe, its a great introduction to it. But if you really don’t want too or you can’t find it, this recipe will work well using all, plain / all purpose flour for the topping. It will just be a little paler on top. I used  Demerara (Turbinado) sugar in both the topping and with the fruit. I love it because it is less refined then other sugars and a lot more natural in colour and flavour and its large crystals add a great crunch. But if you find this sugar hard to come by or just too expensive light brown sugar or even granulated sugar will suffice just fine.

 

I also added the zest of a lemon to the topping mix to give it a lovely little zesty kick. I just love lemon with almost any baked fruit dessert, it just gives it a lovely little edge.

 

 

This is such an easy dessert to whip up and serve. It can easily be served on its own or with a little vanilla ice cream or a little pouring cream like I have here. Chunky apple and sweet blackberries topped with a sweet and nutty crumbly topping, what more can you ask for in an autumnal dish?

 

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