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Perfect Fruit Crumble

February 25, 2013 By Kerry Cooks 9 Comments

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This winter I’ve really come around to crumbles. In the past, I wasn’t massively interested in them, but I seem to be appreciating winter comfort food more and more as I get older. They’re especially good when you have some tart fruit, such as bramley apples, rhubarb or raspberries, to contrast with the sweet topping and custard.

  • 150g plain flour
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 50g demerera sugar
  • 125g cold butter, cubed
  • roughly 750g chopped fruit
  • handful porridge oats, chopped walnuts, almonds, etc if you like

You can make this recipe by hand or using a food processor. A food processor is quicker, if you have one, but then you also have the washing up to do…

To begin, preheat your oven to 175C/gas mark 5/350F. Hint – crumbles are a great make in advance food – you can stash both the prepared fruit and the crumble topping in your freezer ready for dessert emergencies.

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Next, combine the flour and sugars in a large bowl and add the cold butter, cut into small chunks. Rub together with your fingers until the mixture represents lumpy breadcrumbs (with no massive lumps -the size of a tic tac is the biggest you should be going for, but you do need lumps as they’re the key to a delicious knobbly topping!).

Arrange your fruit in an oven proof dish, and sprinkle over a little demerera sugar and some lemon/orange zest if you have some on hand. Good crumble combo’s –

  • apple and rhubarb
  • strawberry, raspberry and apple
  • pear and
  • peach and raspberry

The idea is to combine sweet and tart for the best crumbles

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What’s your favourite crumble combo?

x Kerry

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  1. Kat says

    February 25, 2013 at 11:45 pm

    This looks yummy! I love a rhubarb crumble, my favourite ๐Ÿ™‚

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  2. makedospend says

    February 25, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    Gosh – I haven’t had a good crumble for a while! Or custard!

    This must be put right… Bx

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      February 25, 2013 at 9:01 pm

      Definitely, before Spring comes!

      Reply
  3. cupcake girl says

    February 25, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    oh that looks yum and half….crumbles have been on my mind a lot. dnt you have to cook the apples first to soften them.

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    • kerrycooks says

      February 25, 2013 at 7:55 pm

      Nope I never bother, they always taste greats anyway ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  4. Susannah Bianchi says

    February 25, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    Oh my Kelly, that looks good. I love pie…apple is my favorite served warm. Of course lemon meringue is another fave…and banana cream, key lime, cherry, blueberry…sigh

    Reply
  5. Jorie says

    February 25, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    Yum, looks delish! Thanks, Kerry!

    Reply

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