Apple Brown Betty with Almond Whipped Cream

4 min read

What is an Apple Brown Betty? It’s a dessert made with layers of spiced apples, brown sugar, and a  buttered crumb of some sort. Generally if a bread product is used it’s a Betty. If it’s an oatmeal topping, it’s a fruit crisp. The Apple Brown Betty (it can be made with other fruits too like cranberry, blueberry, raspberry, etc.) dates back to the early 1800′s and is said to have been created in the American colonies.

Whatever its history, it’s an easy to make dessert that’s perfect for using fall apples. This one is is made with cinnamon raisin bread for ever more flavor. Choose a good quality bread (or make your own) for the best taste.

The trick to a Apple Brown Betty is to slice the apples uniformly so that they cook at the same rate. Slice them thin or thick – however you prefer them – just do them all the same and it’ll turn out fine though you may have to adjust the cooking time. This one is made in a slow cooker, but you could easily move this to a prepared pan (non-stick spray) and bake until the apples are soft.

Apple Betty with Whipped Almond Cream – Slow Cooker Recipe

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Yield: 8

Apple Betty with Whipped Almond Cream - Slow Cooker Recipe

Your home will smell amazing while this cinnamon and raisin Apple Brown Betty cooks away in your slow cooker. Prep is just 15 minutes, use a mandolin slicer for uniform slices and more even cooking. You can skip peeling if you like. Serve the Apple Brown Better warm with chilled almond whipped cream.

Ingredients

  • Apple Bett
  • 3 lbs tart apples (like Granny Smith, Pink Lady, or Gravenstein – about 9 medium), washed, peeled and sliced
  • 10 slices good quality cinnamon-raisin bread, cubed
  • ¾ c packed brown sugar
  • ½ c butter, melted
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground cardamom
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • WHIPPED CREAM
  • 1 c heavy whipping cream
  • 2 Tbls sugar
  • 1 tsp grated lemon peel
  • ½ tsp almond extract

Instructions

Place uniformly sliced apples in the bottom of an ungreased 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker.

In a large bowl, combine the rest of the Apply Betty ingredients – toss to mix. Dump the Apple Betty mixture on top of the apple slices.

Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours or until apples are tender.

Meanwhile, In a mixing bowl, beat the cream until it begins to thicken. Add the sugar, lemon zest, and almond extract and continue beating until soft peaks form. Refrigerate

Serve the warm apple mixture with the chilled whipped almond cream

Schema/Recipe SEO Data Markup by ZipList Recipe Plugin
2.2

http://www.miscfinds4u.com/blog/?p=90910

Found at MiscFiInds4u.com

Excerpted from Taste of Home Recipes Across America: 735 of the Best Recipes from Across the Nation and used with permission

About Taste of Home
Taste of Home is a go-to resource for the holidays and any time of the year for information on food, cooking and entertaining. Each year, thousands of great home cooks from across the United States and Canada submit more than 40,000 recipes, of which 3,000 are published in Taste of Home magazines and online, making Taste of Home one of the largest and most successful practitioners of user generated content. Before being published, every recipe is tested in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen to ensure that it can be prepared with affordable, everyday ingredients from regular grocery stores.Taste of Home content is available in print; online at Tasteofhome.com; in books; via digital download on iPad, mobile apps and Kindle; and Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

For more information please visit http://www.recipesacrossamerica.com, and follow on Facebook and Twitter

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *