Banish this week’s chill and gloom with chef Winnie Chen’s warming apple crisp.
“Goat milk gives the dish this incredible tang, absolutely unlike any regular apple crisp. The Italian Centre and Blush Lane sell goat milk butter, or you could make your own using a high fat goat milk.” –Winnie Chen, exec chef, Fu’s Repair Shop
Adapted from a recipe by Ambition Kitchen.
Crisp Topping
| 1.5 c | flour |
| 1.5 c | old fashioned oats |
| 1.5 c | packed dark brown sugar |
| ¾ c | goat milk butter (cut into small pieces, then chilled) |
| 1 pinch | salt |
Combine flour, oats, and brown sugar in a large bowl and stir well. Then with your hands or a pastry cutter, cut or pinch in the pieces of chilled goat butter until the texture of the mixture resembles crumbly wet sand.
Place the topping mix in the refrigerator to chill while you work on the filling.
| ½ c | goat milk butter |
| 1 T | vanilla extract |
| 5 lg | honey crisp apples (peeled and cored, sliced thinly, roughly 2mm) |
| ⅓ c | dark brown sugar |
| 1t | ground cinnamon |
| ¼ t | ground nutmeg |
| ¼ t | salt |
| 1T | bourbon |
Apple Filling
| ½ c | goat milk butter |
| 1 T | vanilla extract |
| 5 lg | honey crisp apples (peeled and cored, sliced thinly, roughly 2mm) |
| ⅓ c | dark brown sugar |
| 1t | ground cinnamon |
| ¼ t | ground nutmeg |
| ¼ t | salt |
| 1T | bourbon |
Preheat oven to 350ºF and grease an 8 x 8-inch baking pan.
Filling
In a saucepan, heat the goat butter at medium heat and let brown. The butter will crackle and foam, you may stir to reincorporate the milk solids. Once the butter becomes dark caramel in colour and emits a pleasant nutty smell, turn off the burner and remove from heat and let cool for a minute. In the same pan, stir in vanilla and apples and stir to thoroughly coat. Then add in the brown sugar, bourbon and spices. Toss again to combine, then add ⅓ of the topping mixture to the filling mixture. Stir thoroughly. Transfer to the prepared baking pan and sprinkle the remaining topping over top.
Bake for 55-60 minutes or until the crisp is golden brown and the filling is bubbling.
Eat with ice cream. Makes 1 crisp.