Many other kinds of fruit
crisps are also made, these may substitute other fruits, such as
peaches,
berries, or
pears, for the apples. There are a number of desserts that employ
apples with sweet toppings, but none of them are the same as apple crisp, making them not so much variants, but instead other related apple desserts. •
Apple Brown Betty (or apple pudding) consists of alternating layers of apples and sweetened buttered
bread crumbs or
crackers, often with a sauce. •
Apple cobbler (also known as apple slump, apple grunt, and apple pandowdy) is an old recipe in which the baked apples are topped with a
cobbler crust formed of
batter,
pie crust or
baking powder biscuit dough. The topping may be dropped onto the top of the
apples in clumps, which have a 'cobbled' appearance, thus the name. A 'grunt' is a cobbler cooked on top of the stove and a 'slump' is fruit and biscuit dumplings which is turned upside down after being baked so that the fruit is slumped into the fruit with a fork. •
Apple crumble is a British pudding similar to the apple crisp. The
crumble topping is made of butter, flour, and
brown sugar rolled together so that it resembles
breadcrumbs. Care must be taken to balance the correct amount of crumble with the fruit, or else the filling may seep through and spoil this crust. Crumble is traditionally served with
custard, but today it is sometimes served with cream or ice cream. Crumbles made from apples, and sometimes other fruits, are also common in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. •
Apple pan dowdy most commonly features a pie crust, which is broken ("
dowdied") before serving: it is a pie, not a cobbler. •
Apple pie is a
pie in which the principal filling is apples. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling, though may have a crumble or streusel topping. •
Eve's pudding is a British dessert that is essentially a
sponge cake atop the apples. The name may originate from the biblical reference to
Eve and the apple in the
Garden of Eden. ==See also==