A fruit crisp topping is a quick and easy dessert to make. You can use it for an apple crisp, or any of your favourite fruit-based fillings such as blueberry, peach, rhubarb, or any combination of berries in season.
A crisp is a little bit like a crumble but uses oats and brown sugar to give you a crisper topping that is more like a streusel.
Be sure to add the humble yet delicious fruit crisp to your go-to dessert collection.
Makes
1 x 9 inch crisp
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
35 minutes
Good For:
desserts
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
Fruit Crisp Topping
Check out our easy step by step video
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
In a good-sized bowl so you have lots of working room, measure out your flour and stir in the salt
Step 2
Add in your cold cubed butter
Step 3
With clean cold hands, scoop up some of the flour with some of the butter and rub it together across your fingers with your thumb – this is called the rubbing in method
Step 4
Keep working on it until it looks like fine breadcrumbs
Step 5
Stir in the brown sugar making sure you break up any lumps
Step 6
Stir in the oats
Step 7
Squeeze the topping by the handful to make some large clumps – these are the best bits of the crisp!
Step 8
Layer the crisp mixture over the fruit topping making sure you have the clumps evenly spaced
Step 9
Bake for 35 – 40 minutes or until the fruit is bubbling and the crisp is a nice golden brown
Tips for rubbing in your butter:
If the butter starts to become too soft put the bowl into the fridge for 10 minutes or so to cool it down
Shake the bowl to bring any of the bigger lumps to the surface
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How to Make a Fruit Crisp Topping
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
Instructions
- In a good-sized bowl so you have lots of working room, measure out your flour and stir in the salt
- Add in your cold cubed butter or fat
- With clean cold hands, scoop up some of the flour with some of the butter and rub it together across your fingers with your thumb - this is called the rubbing in method
- Keep working on it until it looks like fine breadcrumbs
- Stir in the brown sugar making sure you break up any lumps
- Stir in the oats
- Squeeze the topping by the handful to make some large clumps
- Layer the crisp mixture over the fruit topping making sure you have the clumps evenly spaced
- Bake for 35 - 40 minutes or until the fruit is bubbling and the crisp is a nice golden brown
Notes
Nutrition Facts per serving
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