If you like apple crumble, you’ll probably love this apple pudding with its crunchy ginger and choc chip oat topping. It’s really easy to make and is full of flavour. Serve with cream or custard for a comforting and satisfying dessert.
Well there’s a mouthful. I should probably have come up with a snappier name, but apple pudding with a ginger choc chip oat topping pretty much describes this lip smacking dessert. When I came up with it, I’d just made Karen’s orange liqueur, so I had a load of oranges minus their skin that needed using up fast.
I also noticed at about the same time that some of the apples I’d been given a while before looked like they were in need of using too. So an apple and orange pudding of some kind it had to be. Time being limited, a nice easy oaty one seemed to be in order.
Apple Pudding
This apple pudding is comfort food at its best. It’s filling, tastes delicious and everyone will be clamouring for seconds. It’s probably at its best in autumn and winter, but as apples store well and are so easily available, it’s good at pretty much any time of the year.
One of the best things about it is that it’s a quick and easy to make dessert. Yes, it requires half an hour in the oven to cook, but the hands on preparation time is much less than for a crumble. The only bit that requires any time and effort is dealing with the apples. If you use windfalls, which I often do, it can be a bit of a pain as there’s usually quite a few bad bits to cut out.
To make the topping, all you have to do is melt butter and golden syrup, then stir in the oats, ginger and chocolate. In fact it’s very much like making flapjacks. Indeed the flavour of the topping is similar to flapjacks too. It’s nice and chewy with crunchy bits on the top. But it’s crumblier, not as dense and not nearly as sweet as a traditional flapjack.
I’ve made this apple pudding now, both with and without orange juice. The orange adds an extra dimension to the apples for sure, but with so much going on in the topping, it’s not really necessary.
Apple Pudding Top Tips
- Tart apples are the key to a good apple pudding. They bring the flavour and make your mouth pop. Use cooking apples or Bramleys if you prefer a purée layer beneath the oat topping or tart eating apples if you like them to keep their shape. I often use my mother’s Cornish cooking apples or windfalls from our neighbours garden. Both are good.
- Make the topping first so that the apples are exposed to the air for as little time as possible. As soon as you’ve layered them in the dish, you can add the topping to cover them so they don’t go brown.
- Swap the water for the juice of an orange if your apples are a bit bland in flavour. This has the added benefit of helping to stop the apples turning brown.
- There’s no need to pre-cook the apples as they will happily stew away in the oven.
- Allow the topping to cool a little before adding the chocolate, or it will just melt. As long as you make it first before you prepare the apples, it should have cooled down enough.
- Omit the chocolate if you like, but it’s worth trying at least once with it left in. I find 60% is the best one to go for as 75% or higher can be a little too bitter for apples. Alternatively, try ginger flavoured chocolate instead of plain.
- Oats already give quite a lot of texture to this apple pudding, but if you’d like a bit more, substitute a quarter of the rolled oats for jumbo oats.
Other Apple Desserts You Might Like
- Apple brown betty
- Blackberry & apple crumble
- Granny’s apple pie
- Eve’s pudding
- Toffee apple hazelnut cake
- Upside down apple cake
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Apple Pudding. PIN IT.
Apple Pudding with a Ginger & Chocolate Chip Oat Topping
Ingredients
- 75 g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 225 g rolled oats (porridge oats)
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 40 g crystallised ginger finely chopped
- 4-5 large cooking apples or windfall apples
- 50 g demerara sugar
- 2 tbsp water (or use the juice of one orange)
- 50 g dark chocolate chopped (I find 60% dark chocolate is best for this)
Instructions
- Turn the oven on to 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4).
- Melt the butter in a large pan over a gently heat with the golden syrup.75 g unsalted butter, 2 tbsp golden syrup
- Stir in the oats, ground ginger and crystallised ginger.225 g rolled oats (porridge oats), 1/2 tsp ground ginger, 40 g crystallised ginger
- Set aside to cool whilst you deal with the apples.
- Peel, core and slice the apples.4-5 large cooking apples
- Layer them in a buttered ovenproof dish and scatter the sugar over the apple slices as you go.50 g demerara sugar
- Pour over the water or orange juice if using.2 tbsp water
- Stir the chocolate chips into the topping and spoon this over the apples.50 g dark chocolate
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes when the apples should be cooked and the top nicely browned.
Notes
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Sharing
Thanks to Alpha Bakes for getting me to dig out this rather delicious pudding I’d completely forgotten about. I wanted to enter this month’s AlphaBakes and was hoping to make some A is for Almond macaroons.
But time is running out and I’m currently on my way back from my cousin’s three day wedding in Wales. So I had a quick check through my drafts and found this A is for Apple pudding with a ginger and chocolate chip crunchy oat topping. AlphaBakes is hosted this month by Ros of The more than occasional baker.
As I had both apples and oranges in need of using up, I am entering this into the No Waste Food Challenge. The theme is fruit this month and it’s hosted by Turquoise Lemons.
And for much the same reason as above, I’m also entering this apple pudding into Credit Crunch Munch with Camilla of Fab Food 4 All.
I’m sharing this easy apple dessert recipe with Feast Glorious Feast for #CookBlogShare.
Beth Sachs says
A proper comfort food pudding! Love the addition of dark chocolate.
Choclette says
Now the weather has turned, comfort food puddings are bang on.
Kat (The Baking Explorer) says
That topping sounds so good! I must ty this!
Choclette says
If you like Flapjacks Kat, you’ll love this topping.
Chloe Edges says
I absolutely love your ability to get chocolate into almost any dessert, even where it is wholly unexpected. And I bet, totally delicious for it!
Choclette says
Apple isn’t an obvious pairing for chocolate, but it works super brilliantly in a crumble type topping.
Sarah Michelle says
Chocolate with orange pudding is a nice experience, but with apples, it is very good. I must try it at valentine’s day. n by the way happy valentine day.
Baking Addict says
I’m glad AlphaBakes gave you a chance to publish this post as it’s one worth sharing! Love the combination of apples and orange and the oaty topping. I’ll have to give the ginger a miss tho as I’m not a fan. More chocolate for me 🙂
Piper and Daisy says
this sounds yummy, and with the slight amendment to use gluten free oats & dark chocolate it would be perfect for coeliacs like me 🙂
Elizabeth says
This sounds lovely! I love the sound of these combined flavours. I bet it’d make a fantastic winter pudding. 🙂 Thanks for entering it into the No Waste Food Challenge!
Helen Moulden says
This looks incredible! Another one for the list of ‘have to try!’. Thank you!
clair downham says
ooh love the sound of this pudding especially the crunchy topping
Camilla @FabFood4All.co.uk says
A gorgeous sounding pud and I too have recently discovered chocolate and ginger are a great topping, comfort food indeed:-) Thank you for entering Credit Crunch Munch this month. I have a bar of Divine Dark Chocolate with Ginger and Orange that would be perfect on here:-)
Katharine says
I like names like this so I know exactly what’s in a recipe! This pudding sounds lovely, very comforting and I actually have half a block of G&B’s ginger chocolate sitting in my cupboard so think that would work perfectly here! Hope you enjoyed the wedding, saw that you were in Caerphilly castle which I’ve been to and can imagine it made a wonderfully atmospheric setting for the celebrations!
Choclette says
Thanks Katharine. I was going to get CT to think of a whizzy name for it (he’s good at that sort of thing), but in the end I think you’re right, it would have been meaningless to virtually everyone else.
The wedding was great thank you and Caerphilly castle is truly impressive. First time I’ve been there. It made for a great setting, but there were an awful lot of goose pimples to be seen. Hoping to get a post up soon.
Alida says
Lots of beautiful flavours packed into this pudding Choclette. I am still not geared up with ginger. I must say we Italians don’t use it a lot and I am slowly learning about it and getting to like its taste. I love it in savoury dishes and still have to discover it with puddings. Very yummy though!
Choclette says
Thank you Alida – this is really more of a winter warmer, but I suspect I’d be happy to eat it at any time. It’s interesting that Italian cuisine uses herbs more predominantly than spices. I hadn’t really thought of that before.
Johanna GGG says
I don’t know if I am more amazed that you still have a draft you can post from 2011 or if your cousin has a 3 day wedding (or did you just mean a 3 day trip to the wedding)? Sounds a delicious pudding anyway
Choclette says
Haha Johanna – be amazed at both. I have two drafts I started four years ago. i’m always starting posts and then not quite getting around to finishing them. And my cousin’s wedding was indeed three days – or rather the celebrations lasted three days. never been to one of those before. I shall be blogging about it soon.