Autumn Fruit Crumble
Ingredients
crumble
- 125 g chilled unsalted Butter cubed
- 175 g Plain Flour
- 75 g Ground Almonds
- 100 g Golden Caster Sugar + 1 Tbsp for sprinkling on top
fruit
- 4 large pears
- 6 plums
- Vanilla – 1 Tbsp of vanilla paste or seeds from 1 bean
- Zest of half an orange
- 1 Tbsp of fresh orange juice
- 2 Tbsp golden caster sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180ºC / 350ºF
- First make the crumble. In a large bowl add the flour, ground almonds and butter and slowly rub together until the butter is well mixed in. It should resemble lumpy course sand. Stir in the sugar and put the crumble mixture into the fridge to keep chilled.*
- Peel, core and chop the pears into chunks, then stone the plums and, leaving skin on, chop into quarters. Add to a 1.5 litre pie dish.
- Stir in the sugar, vanilla, orange zest and orange juice.
- Remove crumble from fridge and cover the fruit in the pie dish making sure all the fruit is covered.
- Sprinkle over the extra tbsp of sugar.
- Put in the pre heated oven and bake for 45 minutes.
Notes
*Crumble is even better from the freezer so consider making batches in advance. Just add the frozen crumble to any fruit base.
The frozen crumble may clump together so just break apart into smaller lumps.
The frozen crumble may clump together so just break apart into smaller lumps.