Recipes - Sweets
White Stilton, Apple, Pear & Pecan Nut Crumble
White Stilton offers a crumbly white texture and a clean flavour that complements fruit. The topping for this crumble has a delicious chewy quality brought about by the addition of white Stilton and pecan nuts.
Ingredients
- 1lb/450g cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- 1lb/450g ripe pears, peeled, cored and chopped
- 175g/6oz plain flour
- 75g/3oz white Stilton cheese
- 50g/2oz medium oats
- 50g/2oz butter
- 50g/2oz pecan nuts
- 50g/2oz caster sugar (plus extra to sweeten fruit)
Method
1 Preheat to 180 degrees C / 350 degrees F / Gas Mark 4. Place the fruit in an ovenproof crumble dish, scatter sugar over the fruit to sweeten and set aside.
2 Place remaining ingredients in a food processor fitted with blade attachment, and whiz briefly until mixture resembles fresh breadcrumbs.
3 Pile the crumble over the fruit, pressing down gently (the level of the crumble will drop as the fruit cooks beneath), and bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
4 Serve with vanilla dairy ice cream.
Serves 4
Recipe by Steven Wheeler for the Stilton Cheese Makers' Association