Apple Sauce Ice Cream

I love apple pie. I simply can't get enough of the dish that has warm apple filling oozing out of a shortcrust pastry and topped with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. Grate a little bit of dark chocolate over the ice cream and it's absolutely heavenly.

While I suddenly had the craving for apple pie today, I didn't have the patience to be rolling out shortcrust pastry at a moment's notice. Instead, i thought up an apple pie substitute and tested it out. While its technically not apple sauce, I like that name for this recipe.

What i did was to layer toasted bread crumbs, apple filling and ice cream in a glass and voila... A simple yet spectacular dessert. I am so making this again.

For the apple filling, you need:
-4 green apples, skinned, cored and diced.
-2 cinnamon stick or 1 tsp cinnamon powder
-5 tablespoon sugar
-half cup sultanas or raisins
-a knob of butter (ard 50g)

For the base, you need:
-2 slices of bread, toasted to a crisp, then crushed to little crumbs

Topping:
- Vanilla ice cream
- A cube of dark chocolate

Just melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and pour in the diced green apples, cinnamon, sugar and sultanas. Pour in a little water to prevent the apple to becoming too dry and let it simmer until the apple turns soft. Leave to cool for half an hour.

Pour in the bread crumbs into a glass followed by the apple sauce.Then throw in a scoop of vanilla ice cream and top it off by grating some dark chocolate over the ice cream.

Try it out! For some variations, you can replace apples and cinnamon with strawberries instead.