Classic crumble

Crumble is a version of the British dessert, similar to our apple pie made with ground dough, but it has more filling than shortbread crumbs. The dessert turns out fragile, so it is better to bake it in small molds. The filling, in addition to apples, can be other fruits with a dense texture and even vegetables. There are also low-calorie recipes that replace flour with oatmeal and replace sugar with honey.

Classic apple crumble

Apple crumble is one of the classic English desserts, and anyone who tries it will not remain indifferent to this pastry. The dessert is prepared quickly and easily. Sand crumbs can be immediately prepared in larger quantities and stored in the freezer. The apples for the crumble are chosen to be dense enough so that they retain their shape when baked.

1. 
   Classic crumble is easy to prepare at home.Wash the apples for crumble well, peel and cut into medium pieces, removing the seed pods. To prevent the apple slices from darkening, pour the juice of half a lemon over it and stir.
2. 
   Then transfer the apples to a heated frying pan, add a glass of sugar and a little cinnamon (to taste), stir and cook them over medium heat with constant stirring so as not to burn. Apples will quickly give juice. Simmer them for 10 minutes until they become soft and do not lose their shape.
3. 
   Pour sifted flour into a bowl for kneading dough, add soda, lemon zest, sugar in the amount specified in the recipe and mix.
4. 
   Cut the butter, softened at home temperature, into small pieces, add to the dry ingredients and grind everything by hand until it becomes fine crumbs.
5. 
   Pour rum into the apple mixture and simmer the apples with rum for another 5 minutes.
6. 
   Grease a baking dish with a small amount of butter. Place the caramelized apples in an even layer.
7. 
   Then sprinkle the apples with the prepared shortbread crumbs. Bake the crumble in an oven preheated to 190°C for 25 minutes.
8. 
   Remove the crumble from the oven, cool slightly and serve with scoops of any ice cream.

Delicious and successful baking!

How to make crumble with oatmeal?

Crumble with oatmeal will be a dietary version of the classic apple dessert and will have a pleasant taste and not too sweet. For such a crumble, oatmeal must be of high quality and not coarse, otherwise a crispy crust will not work. The amount of sugar can be adjusted depending on the sweetness of the apples. We prepare crumble from oatmeal without caramelizing the apples.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Portions: 6.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 150 gr.
• Oat flakes – 100 gr.
• Butter – 80 gr.
• Ground cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the apples for crumble well, peel and remove the core and seeds.

2. Then chop the apples into thin slices.

3. Grease a baking dish with a small amount of butter and place the apple slices in it. Then sprinkle the apples with 2-3 teaspoons of sugar and add cinnamon. Mix the apples with these ingredients a little.

4. Pour oatmeal into the bowl for kneading the dough. Add sugar, one pinch of salt, a spoonful of wheat flour and add cold butter, cut into pieces. By replacing white sugar with brown sugar, you can improve the taste of your baked goods.

5. Mash all these ingredients with your hand until they form homogeneous crumbs.

6. Then sprinkle the prepared crumbs evenly over the apples placed in the mold and smooth the surface with a spoon.

7. Bake the oat crumble in an oven preheated to 180°C for 40–55 minutes, depending on your oven. The crumble can be kept in the oven a little longer, then the apples will caramelize.

8. Remove the crumble from the oven, cool slightly and serve with ice cream or cream. This dessert will remain delicious when served cold.

Bon appetit!

Homemade plum crumble

Plum crumble will be a quick and tasty summer treat for your tea. Frozen plums will also go well with it. Prepare the crumble for the crumble using a mixture of flour and oatmeal and add almonds to it. This dessert will appeal to those who prefer filling in a pie rather than dough.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Portions: 5.

Ingredients:

• Plum (halved) – 400 gr.
• Almonds – 80 gr.
• Brown sugar – 130 gr.
• Oat flakes (not instant) – 35 gr.
• Wheat flour – 55 gr.
• Butter – 80 gr.
• Ground cinnamon – 0.5 tsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for baking crumble in the quantities specified in the recipe. Freeze the butter in advance. Instead of almonds, you can use any other nuts.

2. Rinse the plum well, cut into halves and remove the pit. Then put them in a saucepan, add 60 g of sugar and cook over medium heat for 6 minutes. Cook frozen plums longer, 10 minutes, without defrosting.

3. Grease a baking dish with a piece of butter. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the cooked plums into the mold without syrup.

4. Pour boiling water over the almonds for 15 minutes, then peel the husks, dry with a napkin and fry in a dry frying pan for 4–5 minutes. Grind the roasted almonds into crumbs.

5. Pour chopped almonds into a bowl for kneading dough. Then add oatmeal, wheat flour, the rest of the sugar and add cinnamon with a pinch of salt.

6. Grind the frozen butter on a coarse grater. Add to the dough. Grind all ingredients with your hands until smooth crumbs form. Then place the crumbs in the freezer for 10 minutes.

7. After this time, crumble the sand crumbs evenly onto the plum in the mold. Bake the plum crumble in an oven preheated to 190°C for 30 minutes.

8. Cool the baked crumble a little and you can put it on plates and serve warm, topping it with ice cream.

Bon appetit!

A simple and delicious pear crumble recipe

A fragrant and tender pear, covered with a crispy shortcrust pastry crust, will be an amazing alternative to cake, sponge cake and other dessert. The recipe will appeal to housewives who do not like and do not have time to knead dough. The pears in this recipe do not require pre-cooking. Knead the shortbread dough with flour and oatmeal to make it crispy.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Portions: 4.

Ingredients:

• Pear – 3 pcs.
• Cinnamon - to taste.
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
• Oat flakes – 4 tbsp.
• Flour – 4 tbsp.
• Sugar – 3 tbsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Dry ground ginger - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. In the bowl of a blender or food processor, add flour, oatmeal, two tablespoons of sugar, dry ginger with cinnamon to your taste and chopped butter. Grind these ingredients until smooth crumbs.

2. Peel the pears and cut into small pieces. Add one spoonful of sugar, a little cinnamon, lemon juice and mix gently.

3. Grease a baking dish with a piece of butter. Then place the pear slices in an even layer.

4. Then sprinkle the pears evenly with the prepared shortbread crumbs. Bake the crumble in the oven preheated to 180°C for 20 minutes.

5. Remove the baked crumble from the oven, cool slightly and serve with ice cream or cream.

Bon appetit!

Delicious blueberry crumble recipe

Crumble at its core is not a dish, but a culinary term or a method of preparing a dish when fruits, berries or vegetables are baked under a layer of shortbread crumbs.During the season of fresh berries, you can prepare blueberry crumble according to the suggested recipe, and it will be no less tasty with frozen berries. We form the crumble in the form of a blueberry pie. Depending on what you serve this dessert with, you can change the amount of sugar.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Portions: 4.

Ingredients:

• Blueberries – 160 gr.
• Wheat flour – 120 gr.
• Sugar – 100 gr.
• Yolk – 1 pc.
• Corn starch – 4 g.
• Lemon juice – 8 g.
• Butter – 70 gr.
• Salt – 1 gr.
• Vanilla essence – ¼ tsp.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Pour flour sifted through a sieve into a bowl for kneading dough. Add salt, 85 grams of sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder and mix everything.

2. Then add the yolk to this mixture, pour in vanilla essence and add chilled butter cut into small cubes.

3. Using a whisk, mix these ingredients.

4. Then grind them with your hand until they become fine crumbs.

5. Cover the baking dish with special paper and place 2/3 of the shortbread crumbs into it. Compact the mixture by hand and place the mold in the refrigerator for half an hour. We also put the remaining sand crumbs in the refrigerator.

6. Pour clean blueberries into a separate bowl. Add cornstarch and the rest of the sugar to it. Mix the blueberries so that all the berries are covered with starch.

7. Then pour lemon juice over the blueberries and mix again.

8. After 30 minutes, take the mold with the cooled crumbs out of the refrigerator and spread the prepared blueberries on it in an even layer.

9. Evenly cover the blueberries with the rest of the crumbs. Bake the crumble in an oven preheated to 185 degrees for 28–33 minutes.

10.Let the crumble cool slightly and remove from the mold. Then cut it into equal pieces.

11. Blueberry crumble is ready. We serve it to the table with any addition.

Bon appetit!

How to make homemade crumble with cherries?

For those who like a quick dessert, this recipe suggests making cherry crumble. The main charm of the crumble lies in the ratio of berry filling and dough (crispy shortbread crumbs). Cherries can be used either fresh or frozen, and cornstarch is added to them. We bake cherry crumble in ceramic portion forms.

Cooking time: 55 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Portions: 4.

Ingredients:

For filling:

• Cherry – 900 gr.
• Wheat flour – 120 gr.
• Sugar – ¾ tbsp.
• Water – ¾ tbsp.
• Corn starch – 2.5 tbsp.

For the topping (crust):

• Butter – 55 gr.
• Brown sugar – 1/3 tbsp.
• Flour – ½ tbsp.
• Cinnamon – ½ tsp.
• Chopped nuts – ½ tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. First, prepare all the ingredients for baking the crumble in the quantities specified in the recipe.

2. Turn on the oven to preheat at 190°C. Grease ceramic molds (ramekins) with butter.

3. Place pitted cherries in a separate pan, pour water into it, add sugar and bring to a boil over medium heat.

4. Then cook the cherries in the syrup over low heat for 10 minutes, without covering the pan with a lid and stirring it occasionally with a spoon.

5. After this time, place the cherries and syrup evenly into ramekins.

6. In the bowl for kneading the dough, place all the ingredients specified in the recipe for preparing the topping. Mix them by hand until they form a homogeneous crumb. It is convenient to knead the topping in a food processor.

7.Then we cover the cherry filling with this shortbread crumb and press it with our fingers a little so that the cherry is completely covered with crumbs.

8. Bake the crumble in a preheated oven for 25–30 minutes until golden brown. Remove the cherry crumble from the oven, give it a little time to cool and serve.

Bon appetit!

Step-by-step recipe for making curd crumble

In this recipe you are invited to bake a delicious dessert with curd filling. Your dessert will be tender, crumbly, with a crispy crust. In appearance, it looks like a pie, only without kneading the dough, which is important for many housewives. Preparing curd crumble is simple and quick.

Cooking time: 55 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Portions: 4.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 300 gr.
• Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
• Soda – ½ tsp.
• Sugar – 200 gr.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
• Egg – 3 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. First, prepare all the ingredients for the cottage cheese crumble according to the recipe.

2. Grind the chilled or better frozen butter on a coarse grater.

3. Transfer it to a bowl for kneading dough and add half the amount of sugar specified in the recipe.

4. Quench the baking soda in a tablespoon of lemon juice and pour it into the oil.

5. Then sift wheat flour into this bowl through a thick sieve, which will enrich it with oxygen and make the dough more airy.

6. Quickly rub the butter and flour together by hand until they form fine, homogeneous crumbs and temporarily place in the refrigerator so that the butter does not melt.

7. Place the cottage cheese in another bowl and add the rest of the sugar to it.

8. Then break the chicken eggs into the cottage cheese and beat everything with a submersible blender or a regular mixer until smooth and homogeneous.

9.We cover the baking dish with special paper and spread half of the prepared shortbread crumbs into it in an even layer.

10. Also spread the filling of cottage cheese and eggs in an even layer on top of the crumbs.

11. Sprinkle the filling with the remaining crumbs and level the surface. Bake the crumble in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30–40 minutes until golden brown. Remove the cottage cheese crumble from the oven, cool slightly and serve.

Delicious and successful baking.

Delicious crumble with black currants

Crumble with blackcurrant filling differs from other berry desserts in that it is not very sweet due to the acidity of this berry, so it can be prepared for breakfast or dinner. Currants are suitable both fresh and frozen. Mix the shortbread crumbs with butter, instant oatmeal flour and sugar. Blackcurrant is good on its own, so we don’t add anything to the crumble.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Cooking time: 5 minutes.

Portions: 4.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 0.5 tbsp.
• Oat flakes – ¼ tbsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 sachet.
• Sugar – 3 tbsp.

For filling:

• Blackcurrant – 330 gr.
• Sugar – 4 tbsp.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Immediately turn on the oven to preheat at 190°C. In a separate bowl, mix the currants with the amount of sugar and flour indicated in the recipe. Do not defrost frozen currants, but only rinse with cold water to remove frost. Then place the currants in small baking dishes or in one large one. The berries should fill the mold no more than half the volume.

2. Knead shortbread crumbs from sifted flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, oatmeal and cold butter cut into pieces.This can be done by hand or using a food processor. Pour the prepared crumbs into the moulds.

3. Bake the crumble in a preheated oven for 25–30 minutes until golden brown on the surface. During this time, the currant filling should begin to boil.

4. Cool the crumble with currants a little, remove from the oven, and serve. You can serve it with ice cream, but it is very tasty on its own.

Bon appetit!