What I Ate Today

On the back of my previous success with Peanut Butter and Date Flapjacks, I decided to try another experiment with the date syrup. I’m not a huge fan of desserts in general but ever since we finished the flapjacks I’ve been having a craving for something similar. Usually I tend to leave the making of desserts to Jenny but I thought I’d have another go.

Ingredients

Syrup

• 1lb plums
• 3tbsp date syrup
• a knob of butter
• 1tbsp golden caster sugar

Crust

• 2 oz butter
• 3 oz plain flour
• 1tbsp ground almonds
• 2 oz porridge oats
• 1tsp cinnamon

This was my first crumble but there really wasn’t much to it. I loosely followed some other recipes.

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 180C
2. Stone and quarter plums.
3. Melt the knob of butter in pan, add the plums, date syrup and sugar. If very dry and a touch of water. Simmer for 20-25mins with occasional stirring until you get a pulpy syrup.
4. Rub butter and flour to get ‘breadcrumbs’. Mix in sugar, almonds, cinnamon and oats.
5. Pour plum syrup into a baking dish, top with crust. Baked for 30mins, until slightly golden.

The crumble ended up pretty good. The plum and dates were extremely rich and needed the extra think crust layer. We served it with vanilla ice cream which worked pretty well. Creme Fraiche would be nice too. The only downside to this dish was that there wasn’t enough. We ended up eating it in one go. Next time I’d double the quantity to (serving 4) so we can eat it two days in a row.