Basic Crumble Topping Recipe

There is nothing better than on a Sunday evening sitting down to a roast dinner with a crumble served up for dessert. Throughout the year we alternate what we put into our crumble from Rhubarb in Spring to Apple as the temperatures drop and Banana and Rum in the summer months. It’s a favourite and although I have special crumble toppings mostly I use my grandmothers basic crumble topping recipe. It’s really easy to make and only has 3 store cupboard ingredients but throw whatever fruit that you have around and make this family-friendly dessert for other.

Ingredients for your Basic Crumble Topping

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100g Plain Flour (all purpose)

50g Cold unsalted Butter Cubed

3 Tablespoons Caster Sugar

Making the Crumble Topping

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The most important thing when making crumble like when you make pastry is to have cold hands this will stop the butter from softening and you can then rub it into the crumb consistency needed. Run your hands under a cold tap before you start rubbing the butter into the flour.

1. Add cold cubed butter to the flour.
2. Rub the butter in so that it becomes a crumb like consistency.
3. Add the caster sugar and mix together.
4. Cut your fruit and then place the crumble topping over.
5. It takes around 25 – 35 minutes in the oven depending on the depth of the crumble to cook and crust nicely.

Eat the crumble hot or cold with custard, ice-cream or my personal favourite natural yoghurt.

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Use this crumble topping to make this delicious Apple and Sultana Crumble perfect for a Rainy Day Dessert and ideal comfort food.

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I have this year replaced my old measuring spoons for this set of stackable magnetic measuring spoons that allow me to easily measure both liquids and solids with them. I love that they nest so they don’t take up too much room in the kitchen drawer either.

These are the latest version of the kitchen scales we have I find them really easy to use both with the children when we cook together and also for myself. Just place any bowl on the top and then you can measure the ingredients in oz, g, or more.

I serve our crumble for a regular family meal in one of our Oval Pyrex dishes – I have 2 different sizes one that is ideal for when it is just the 4 of us sitting down to eat and the other a slightly larger dish that is great for when we have my parents or the in-laws around.

With guests around I like to use a decorative pie dish – sometimes the crumble fruit isn’t that great to look at so this shows off the delicious crumble topping but hides the fruit from view.

Freezing your Crumble Topping

One of the reasons I love this basic crumble recipe so much is how easy it is to make. You can make a bulk of it (2:1 ratio with the flour and butter and then add in sugar 3 tablespoons per 100g of flour) and then freeze.

I use our freezer storage boxes and divide up into family portions and then can take them out on a weekday and use them for a quick and easy delicious crumble in the evening. Defrost through the day and just pour over the chopped fruit before cooking.

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