I was playing with freeze-dried fruit. In the past, we have made freeze-dried sugar and powdered sugar for doughnuts, whipped cream, and to dust cream puffs. I had recently added blueberry and strawberry crumbs to our arsenal. These were made following our cereal crumb model and adding freeze-dried fruit. When I reached for the apple, I wanted something beyond cereal. I strolled the aisles of the supermarket and came across vanilla cream sandwich cookies. We already utilized chocolate cream cookies for a cookies-and-cream crumb. The vanilla ones would be a delicious medium for carrying the flavor of apple. I put the cookies, white chocolate, freeze-dried apple powder, vanilla paste, cinnamon, salt, and malic acid into the food processor. I let the machine pulverize and combine the ingredients. The result was a light crumb with the full flavor of apple pie. I quickly had the crumbs on our apple cider doughnuts. Though these crumbs could find a home in a dozen more places—from on top of ice cream to on top of pie.
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