Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Go-To wheat-free egg-free dessert: Fruit crisp

Fill your 8x8 square pan not quite full with fruit of your choice: I like 1/2 apples and 1/2 fresh or frozen mixed berries. In a small bowl, mix together 1/3 C sugar, 1/4 tapioca flour, a tiny pinch of salt, and a teaspoon or more cinnamon. Other spices like nutmeg and cloves and ginger are also good. Sprinkle this mixture over the fruit and toss to mix. In the now-empty small bowl, mix 1 C oats, 1/3 C brown sugar, another tsp or so cinnamon, 1/3 C rice flour, another tiny pinch of salt, and then add 1/4 C (half a stick) melted butter. Mix the butter around till it moistens everything a little. Sprinkle this mixture on top of the fruit mixture, and bake at 350 degrees until bubbling and thick- an hour or more if your berries are frozen when you start, more like 40 minutes if there's only fresh berries & no apples. Let cool somewhat before eating or it will still be runny. Delicious with unsweetened whipped fresh cream!

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