choose-your-own-fruit crumble
crumble topping:
1/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
fruit base:
1/4 cup of water or milk (optional)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
1-2 cups chopped fruits of your choice (apples, strawberries, etc.)
Preheat oven to 350 deg. If using milk/water and vanilla, add to fruit and mix well. Spread fruit in the bottom of a baking dish. Mix crumble topping ingredients together and scatter evenly on top of fruit. Bake for approx. 30 minutes.
This is a great way to use up slightly old or over-ripe fruit. I can clear through the many ancient apples in the fruit bowl by making this at least once a week. Since it’s so easy and fast, I can often ask the spouse if he’d like crumble for dessert while we’re serving dinner, and have it ready by the time dessert rolls around. He likes it with a little creme fraiche on top, but it’s equally good with vanilla ice cream.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Oh man, I have a serious love of crumbles, crisps, and other oat-y, nut-y deserts like that. I’ll have to get you my recipe for apple crisp (or peach crisp) which I adore. I whip it up about twice a year and we gobble it down in our household. My mom, the dessert hater, has actually requested it in the past.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Peach crisp! The spouse doesn’t buy peaches often, but I do get plums – think it would adapt well to those?
October 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Hmm, I’m not sure. Want me to email you the recipe or add it as a comment though and you can consider it? I think you might be able to sub in soft nectarines, but I don’t think plums have the same texture as apples or peaches.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Good point.. maybe add it as a comment? :-)