Apple Crumble

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A crumble is a British dessert that is usually served with ice cream, cream or custard. I remember eating apple crumble once before on my husband's recommendation and It was delicious. My husband says it tasted just like the apple crumble he has eaten in the past.

Crumble Topping:

½ cup cold unsalted butter
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup flour
¾ cup old fashioned rolled oats
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Filling:

5 apples
4 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour

Vanilla icecream to serve on the side when apple crumble is finished.

Directions

For Filling

• Grease baking dish and preheat oven to 350 F.
• Peel, core and slice apples.
• Place in a bowl.
• Add flour and sugar in with the apples and mix. Place in greased baking dish.

For Topping

• In a large bowl combine the flour, cinnamon and oats.
• Cut up the butter into small pieces and add to bowl, mix in the butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs.
• Add the sugar to bowl and mix.
• Spoon the topping over the filling in the baking pan and bake for 45 – 55 minutes.
• Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Carrot Cake with Rum Glaze

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This carrot cake is really moist and makes a delicious dessert. I made it while my little girl slept, so to prevent her from being startled awake by the sound of the food processor I had to grate the carrots by hand as opposed to using the food processor with the grater blade attachment. I really thought I was going to pull a muscle or sprain my hand during the process, I kept stopping to massage my hand. In the end it was all worth it since I got such a great end result.

2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups grated carrots
4 tablespoons coconut powder
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup powdered sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons rum

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°F and grease baking tin.
• In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and coconut powder, whisk ingredients to evenly distribute.
• Beat eggs
• Add oil and vanilla to eggs and whisk, and then add it to the flour mixture and mix.
• Add the carrot to the batter and combine the ingredients.
• Pour batter into greased baking tin and bake for 58 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

For Glaze:

• Sift powdered sugar into a bowl.
• Add rum to sugar and whisk.
• When cake has cooled pour glaze over cake.  Enjoy!!!!

Sweet Potato Pudding

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I love sweet potato pudding, so does my husband and most, if not all Jamaicans, it's a popular Jamaican dessert. I remember when I was a kid and my mother would make sweet potato pudding on the weekends which was a great treat. She would mix up the pudding batter and pour it into a cast iron pot lined with banana leaves. Then my mom would place the pot directly on burning coals and cover the top with another layer of coals to allow the pudding to cook both on the top and bottom at the same time like a convection oven. The pudding always turned out delicious.

After a few trials and errors, I decided to come up with a new recipe that would leave the pudding moist but still be able to slice it as opposed to spooning it out of the pan which has happened a few times in the past. It was a bit nerve racking wondering if my new pudding recipe would actually work and guess what, it did. I have come up with my own winning recipe and we all love the end result.

3 1/4 cups grated sweet potato
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup coconut milk
3 eggs
2/3 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup Appleton rum
1 teaspoon ginger

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking tin with parchment paper.
  • Put the flour, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon in a bowl, whisk to combine.
  • Grate sweet potatoes.
  • Beat eggs.
  • Add coconut milk, eggs, sugar, ginger, rum, butter and raisins to sweet potato,  mix until properly combined.
  • Gradually add the flour mixture to the bowl and mix until all the ingredients are properly combined.
  • Pour batter into baking tin.
  • Bake for 2 hours & 12 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool before slicing.
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