Mix the apples with 25 gram sugar, half of the nutmeg and half of the cinnamon and put the mixture on the bottom of an oven dish. Mix the flour, the baking soda, the rest of the sugar, the butter, and the remaining cinnamon and nutmeg in a food processor shortly. Add the almonds and process half a minute more. Spoon the crumbs on top of the apples. Bake the apple crumble at 200 degrees for half an hour. Turn off the oven and leave the crumble in for half an hour. Serve hot.

"Apple crumble" in Great Britain and Ireland is the same as "apple crisp" in the USA and Canada. The crumbles can be made out of dough, with nuts, cookies, corn flakes or oat flakes. It is a recent recipe, probably from around 1924. See also recipes for apple-marmalade crumble and apple crumble. Cobblers and pandowdy have crumbles of a more coarse nature.

21 October is Apple day in some countries, among which the United Kingdom. It was started in 1990 and honors the variety and good quality of apples. After all “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and worldwide celebrations.

Mix the flour, butter, eggs, baking soda and 100 gram sugar and mix for a few minutes. Add the banana and the chocolate and mix a minute more. Put the batter in a baking tin, bake 35 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. Allow the cake to cool down. In the meantime, whip the cream with the remaining sugar and vanilla sugar. After cooling, spread the mixture over the cake and dust with cacao powder.