I have prepared many times fruit under a crumble topping. I have tried a lot of fruits for this dessert. Everybody likes the classical version with apples. Strawberries with apples and rhubarb was excellent for my husband. My favourite combination is raspberries with blueberries and cherries, because it is intense and less sweet.

Today I would like to share with you the recipe for a variation of fruit under a crumble topping. I cover the apples and plums with hazelnut pastry. For my children this pastry was the best part of the dessert. They tried to negotiate a serving of pastry without the fruit. Neither I nor my husband gave in. Try this excellent autumn dessert and you will understand why.

The inspiration for this dessert comes from the magazine "Moje gotowanie" ("My cooking").

Ingredients (for 4 people)
dough:
80g of butter
75g of flour
75g of wholemeal flour
50g of minced hazelnuts
50g of fine brown sugar
half a teaspoon of cinnamon
fruit:
1 teaspoon of butter
4 apples
250g of plums
3 tablespoons of maple syrup
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
half a teaspoon of cinnamon

Halloween is quite close. Some people like it but others hate it. Pumpkins, scary masks, spiders and witches look at us from every shop front. In the restaurant we can eat dishes prepared with pumpkin. My children have a Halloween party at their school. In our home we usually spend this day together cutting out pumpkin lanterns and decorating our doors with paper ghosts and bats. I prepare pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins and pumpkin pancakes. So, if we were to treat this day as an excuse to spend a pleasant day together and prepare a tasty dinner, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

Today I would like to share with you terrifying Halloween cookies in the shape of a mummy. If you don't like Halloween, you can decorate the cookies in a different way and simply enjoy their almond taste and nice crunchiness.
The idea for the cookie decoration comes from www.kuchniaagaty.pl.

Ingredients (45 cookies)
100g of ground almonds
200g of flour
100g of caster sugar
175g of butter
a pinch of salt
200g of white chocolate

The autumn has made itself at home in Poland. We needn't even look at the calendar, it is enough to glance outside. When it's autumn, pumpkin and everything you can prepare with it is a necessity in the kitchen. I have already made soup, salads, muffins and a tart. Today I made a cake. You can prepare it for a Halloween party or just eat it with a cup of coffee or tea. It is fluffy, moist and has a beautiful colour.

The recipe comes from www.jadłonomia.com.

Ingredients:
300g of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
Half a teaspoon of baking powder
half a teaspoon of cinnamon
a pinch of salt
250ml of pumpkin puree
60g of brown sugar
125ml of oil
80ml of milk
2 tablespoons of cider vinegar
50g of dark chocolate
100g of white chocolate
2 fistfuls of cranberries
pomegranate

"When I grow up I will bake cakes. It is so easy." That's what my son said when we prepared a sprinkled apple pie for the first time. I really don't know of any easier cake. It would be easier to walk to the bakery, but the net effect isn't the same. And your home won't smell so beautifully of cake and apples.

The key to success is the apples. I like Antonovka for an apple cake, but, unfortunately, I can only rarely buy them at the market. I'm lucky that in one of the family gardens there is a big apple tree and once every two years it gifts us with a huge abundance of apples.

Ingredients (25 cm cake tin)
170g of wheat flour
200g of semolina
150g of brown sugar (+ 2 tablespoons of sugar)
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
180g of butter
2 kg of apples
1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Thanks to my son, I prepare tapioca pudding at least once a week. Up to now I have prepared it with vanilla and different fruit. This time my children ordered a chocolate dessert. Today I can say that the chocolate version of this dish is equally as yummy as the vanilla one. If you add some plums, you will have an excellent, autumnal dessert which nobody will be able to resist.

Ingredients (for 4 people)
400ml of coconut milk
200ml of cow's milk
60g of tapioca
100g of dark chocolate
8-10 plums
3 tablespoons of maple syrup
half a teaspoon of cinnamon
50g of white chocolate