So it is week 5 of the Great British Bake Off which means it is the fifth week of our Great Bloggers Bake Off!!! I was completely taken aback by the entries to the last linky – 40 in total which is amazing and all the pies were so fantastic too. I love how everyone is continuing to challenge themselves and produce some outstanding results *pats everyone on the back*
Our fourth Star Baker was Karin (Cafe Bebe) with her gluten free mini blueberry pies so a very well done to her 🙂
Anyway, back to this week and on The Great British Bake Off the contestants had to create traybakes, tuiles and biscuits. I loved Becca’s biscuit cake stand and the colour of Rob’s macaroons and that banoffee style salted millionnaires shortbread looked tempting. I am also glad that I did not decide to make tuiles this week – I think I would have failed miserably!
I decided to go with a traybake for my GBBO entry. I had some apples given to me and having picked some blackberries at the weekend, I opted to make some apple and blackberry crumble slices. So here is my bake off.
- **Crumble Topping**
- 25g self raising flour
- 25g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp demerara sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground almonds
- **For The Sponge**
- 175g self-raising flour
- 175g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 175g demerara sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp elderflower cordial
- 200g peeled and chopped apple (I used eating apples)
- 100g blackberries
- Heat oven to 180C/160C (fan)
- Grease and line the base of a 23cm square tin.
- **For the crumble mix:
- Put the flour and the butter with the demerara sugar, almonds and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Rub between your fingers until it resembles damp breadcrumbs.
- Put to one side
- **For the sponge
- Place the butter and demerara sugar in a bowl and cream together until pale
- Add the flour, cinnamon, eggs and elderflower cordial and then beat until well combined. Lightly fold in half the apples and blackberries
- Pour into the tin
- Scatter the remaining apples and blackberries over the top and then the add the crumble mixture to cover the fruit.
- Bake for about 45-50 minutes until cooked all the way through
- Allow the traybake to cool before removing from the tin and cutting into 12 pieces
These are really moreish – a cross between a crumble and a cake, so could be served as a dessert with lashings of custard or cream or just as a cake with a cup of tea. It is very moist and the crumble topping adds some great texture to each bite. On the second day I kept these in the fridge in a tupperware tub with a lid and it kept for 4 days. This would work equally well with other fruits like plums, blueberries or maybe pears. Yummy!
Now it is your turn
Please note, that although this is for fun, there are a few rules that Helen Hollywood and myself, Jenny Berry, would appreciate you following
**RULES** **all recipes must be a new post and not an old one linked up
**all recipes must fit the themes set by that week’s Great British Bake Off episode
**all entries must carry the GBBO badge (designed by Annie – thank you)
**all entries must also carry a link to Helen and myself please http://www.thecrazykitchen.co.uk/p/the-great-bloggers-bake-off.html and http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/category/gbbo
**all entries must be linked up on either mine or Helen Hollywood’s blog by 8pm each Sunday night (click on our GBBO badges to find the linky posts)
>>To co-incide with the linky and TV show finale, Helen Hollywood and myself, Jenny Berry, will be hosting a fabulous give away with some baking goodies. We hope the bloggers who take part in the begining will still be around to be entered into this!! One condition to be entered into the prize draw at the end of the linky (and TV show) is that each blogger must ensure they have linked up at least 6 GBBO blog posts – we want committment people!!! It will be a great prize too – more details to follow.<<
these look lovely Jenny & have reminded me that I need to make some chocolate mincemeat ready for my mincemeat slices again….
thanks Helen x
Jenny do you fancy having me as your personal stalker because i really want to eat your bakes
uhmmmmmmmm yeah go on then 🙂 x
just dont leave a pie in the window to cool off
I never do tray bakes beyond a rocky road, and these look delicious – I may have to give it a go and enter twice this week 🙂
rocky road is my absolute fav traybake – go on make some for me to perv over purlease???? x x
Thanks so much for linking up with #tastytuesdays, these crumble slices look incredible! Apple crumble is my signature pudding (so easy to make) and I think it’s time I tried these beauties! x
thank you – apple crumble is a classic and these are so portable too !! x
thank you. they make apple crumble very portable!! x
They look lovely, and I love that you picked your own blackberries. We have a plum tree so I might have to try with those sometime – although the weather this year meant that we had virtually no fruit 🙂
a plum crumble slice would work very well!
These crumble bars sound delicious and they kind of remind me of an American coffee cake. Cake with crumble topping is always delicious and I love the addition of blackberries…
thank you – i will google those coffee cakes you have mentioned as they sound interesting x
Thanks for entering these tasty little treats into tea time treats and what a classic tray bake for autumn too, fabulous combination of ingredients, Karen
I love crumble on top of cake. Your lovely bars are like easy ‘to go’ apple crumbles yum!
They look wonderful and the texture must be amazing, my mouth is watering here!
The best part of a cake and a crumble, fabulous! They look and sound very delicious 🙂
exactly a two for one kind of cake! x
Love the look of these. Yum!!
thanks Wendy – I loved the look of yours 😉
These look lovely. I have been pondering on the use of blackberries…we have a field full of them nextdoor and I may pop across when nobody is looking! Thank you too for the link to the Bake off Challenge and blog….I will check it out and watch on catch up.
thank you for popping over x
Well I love cake and I love crumble so these look pretty much perfect! I’m definitely adding them to my long list of ‘must bake’ recipes 🙂
Yummy this recipe completely inspired me to make something similar – Pear and blackcurrant slice 🙂
oooooh Brigid i would love to see that, it sounds delicious x
Jenny,
Thank you so much for my Star Baker award and for having this challenge with Helen. It’s been a great motivator for me and given me a new excitement. I even managed my own recipe this week! Huzzah!
Mwah xx
Karin
you are weclome Karin a worthy winner 🙂 i am so pleased you are getting into this baking lark x
They look yummy! I think apple and blackberry is one of favourite flavour combinations!
it is one of my fav combinations too and thank you x
I like the sound of those warm with custard or cream, or both! They look delicious and perfect for this chillier weather.
ooooh yes with custard would be good x
fab, as usual! They look moist and fruity! Pass one over 🙂
thanks lovely and i would love to pass you one but they have all gone! I have a bun though 😉 x
Gutted, have only just found this and would love to have taken part. I’ve just made some lovely blueberry flapjacks too, but am unable to post yet.
Your flapjacks sound delicious. I made some blackberry and apple cupcakes earlier in the month which I was particularly pleased with.
oh i am sorry you have only just discovered the linky BUT it is never too late to join in – you ahve until 8pm tonight but then new challenge opnes tuesday night x
I am totes drooling right now! Wow, they look amazeballs!
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Hi Jenny, not sure why but I’ve not be linked up! I was well on time and had tweeted you both as well – is it too later to be added? Sorry to be a pain, I’m sure you’re both very busy and it must be a nightmare to keep track of!
Jen x
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hi Jen we have pinned you on our pinterest board. You can join our FB group if you would like? then you can keep up to date with all the GBBO news and gossip? x
Ohhh, so pretty. I want one, or two, ok three, ummmmm, four?
Pinned and Stumbled. Thanks for linking up with #recipeoftheweek 🙂 x
These sound really yummy.
We used to sell something similar when I worked at a bakery but they bought them from another company. Your ones sound so much nicer!! xx
Anytime I see one of your crumbly cakes I want to dive in with some custard, is that wrong?