Oatmeal Crumble Topping Recipe – how to make the best easy baked apple, pear or fruit crisp recipe with a crunchy oat crumb.
Oatmeal Crumble Topping Recipe
This oatmeal crumble topping recipe is the best way of making a crunchy topping to go over your crisp or crumble filling of choice.
I adore the contrast of the crunchy texture of the crisp topping together with the soft baked fruit beneath.
My favorite way to finish off the dessert is when the warm crumble is topped with a chilled scoop of ice cream – altogether creating the perfect, comforting dessert.
Oat Crumble Ingredients
Here are the ingredients you need to make the crumb topping:
Butter – unsalted butter is used in the recipe and it can be cold butter straight from the fridge, no need to have it at room temperature as it’s melted then mixed with the other ingredients to help create the oat crumb mixture.
Oats – I’ve made this recipe with all kinds of different oats – rolled, porridge and really anything I can find at the grocery store. The coarser the oats, the more crunchy and coarse your topping will be, so it depends on what you have in your kitchen and your own personal preference.
Ground Cinnamon – is my spice of choice, but you can swap for a half a teaspoon of nutmeg or vanilla extract instead.
Brown Sugar – you can use light brown sugar, coconut sugar or any other caramel colored sugar you’d like.
Maple Syrup – you can swap the maple syrup for honey or golden syrup.
Traditionally a crumble tends to have apples as the filling, you can use granny smith apples, tart apples or really any firm apples you like in the apple filling of an apple crumble.
You can of course swap the apples or include a mix of frozen or fresh fruit of your choice, including pears, peaches, strawberries or blueberries to create a blueberry crumble.
Or, you could even infuse orange zest and orange juice into the crumble to make a fruit variety crumble.
The dessert is like an oatmeal streusel topping, so if you’re a streusel fan then you’ll absolutely love this simple sweet treat.
Oatmeal Crumble Topping Recipe
- 1.1lbs/500g Fruit Of Your Choice (for example apples, pears or berries)
- 1.76oz/50g Unsalted Butter
- 1 Cup Rolled Oats
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1/4 Cup Maple Syrup
- Preheat the oven to 350F/180C, get out a baking dish and grease it well.
- Peel and chop the fruit into bite sized pieces and place into the prepared baking dish.
- Melt the butter and set aside to cool while you prep the rest of the crumble topping.
- In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients of oats, cinnamon and sugar until well mixed and you have coarse crumbs.
- Pour the maple syrup and melted butter into the mixing bowl and stir until fully incorporated.
- Place the oatmeal topping on top of the prepared fruit, covering the dish to each corner to an even layer.
- Move the crumble dish to the preheated oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
- Serve as is or with cream, whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Video Tutorial
Here’s a video where you can watch the recipe being prepared, step by step and a perfect way to enjoy the topping over a base of sweet pears. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
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