WITH THEIR TERRIFIC TEXTURE AND TASTE YOU CAN’T TELL THESE GOODIES ARE GLUTEN FREE!

GLORIOUS BAKES Make all your sweet faves — like cakes, crumbles and cookies — oh-so good without gluten!

TOFFEE APPLE LAYERED CRUMBLE

Made from scratch, this dessert is actually a cinch! Granny Smiths in a simple sugar syrup are layered with oven-baked crumble — gluten-free, of course — caramel and cream. Yum!

Preparation time 15 mins plus cooling Cooking time 25 mins Serves 6 1 cup gluten-free plain flour, si–ed 1 tsp cinnamon

/ tsp ground ginger

80g unsalted buŒer, chilled and finely

chopped, plus extra 40g

/ cup brown sugar, plus / cup extra / cup flaked almonds

8 (1.3kg) medium Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, cut into 8 wedges

2 Tbsp water

380g can Nestle Caramel Top ’n’

Fill (or dulce de leche)

600ml thickened cream, whipped

into so– peaks

STEP 1 Preheat oven to 160 C fan-forced (180 C conventional). Line an oven tray with baking paper. STEP 2 Combine flour, cinnamon and ginger in a large bowl. Rub buŠer into mixture using fingertips, until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in sugar.

ScaŠer mixture on prepared tray. Bake for 10 minutes, then stir mixture with a fork (this helps it cook more evenly and ‘crumble like’, and stops it baking into a flat slab). Sprinkle with flaked almonds, bake for a further 15 minutes and stir with a fork again. Cool fully (crumble will firm as it cools).

STEP 3 Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, melt extra buŠer on medium heat, add apple, extra sugar and water. Cook, covered, for 10 minutes, shaking pan occasionally. Uncover and cook for a further 5 minutes, until apples are just tender and liquid has reduced to a syrup-like consistency (if the apples have cooked through quickly, you may need to remove them from the liquid with a sloŠed spoon and cook the liquid down separately – you should have about œ/Ÿ cup syrup). Remove pan from heat. Separate apple and syrup and cool completely.

STEP 4 Set aside 2 tablespoons of the crumble mixture. Place caramel in a small bowl and whisk until smooth.

STEP 5 In a 10-cup-capacity trifle bowl or glass serving dish, arrange half of the apple mixture, scaŠer with half of the crumble mixture, and dollop half of the caramel and cream. Repeat layering and top with reserved crumble mixture. Drizzle with apple syrup and serve.