18 May Vegan Apple Crumble Pie

Recipe done by Angelique from @TheGoodRoots

“My way of showing love to loved one’s is by filling their tummies with good food and it’s always a great way to show my mother she did a great job raising me, because I’ll be able to nourish and treat my own family one day with only the best ingredients from Faithful to Nature.

I baked her favourite dessert, apple crumble pie, with a twist of vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free. If you want to trim on the calories even more half the base and crumble ingredients and only top the apples with a crumble with no base.”

VEGAN APPLE CRUMBLE PIE

INGREDIENTS:

Crumble & base

• 2 ½ cups Gluten-free cake flour (sub brown rice flour)
• 4 Tbsps desiccated coconut
• 1/3 cup coconut oil
• 2 flax eggs (4tbsps flax seed flour & ¼ water)
• 1 cup coconut blossom sugar
• 2 Tbsps vanilla extract
• 2 tsp’s cinnamon
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• ½ tsp mixed spice
• 2 tsp’s baking powder
• 1 tsp’s salt

Filling

• 6-8 apples, peeled, cored & chopped (granny smith)
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 1 tbsp agave/maple syrup/ local raw honey
• 5-6 tbsps water

METHOD:

Crumble & base

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees delcius
2. In a large bowl mix oil, sugar, vanilla extract and spices together.
3. Prepare the flax eggs by mixing the flax seed flour with water in a small bowl. Leave to thicken for 5minutes.
4. Add all the dry ingredients and combine. Best to use your hands.
5. Press half of the dough into a sprayed tart tin and put in the oven for 15 minutes or until dry.
6. Roll the other half of the dough into a ball and wrap in cling wrap or put in a container with a lit in the freezer while the base is baking.
7. Start with the filling.

Filling

1. In a saucepan, heat up the apple pieces together with everything else and a little bit of hot water so the apples don’t stick or burn to the surface. Cook until soft.

ASSEMBLE:

1. After the base has baked brush the surface with a little syrup or apricot jam.
2. Put the filling onto the base. Grate the half-frozen dough on top until apples are covered.
3. Put the pie back into oven for 20-30 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Pair it with Angelique’s delicious Beetroot & Cacao Latte…