The Best Homemade Crumble Topping
Crumble topping is the perfect way to add a crunchy, sweet topping to your favourite fruit desserts. Keep some in the freezer for making the perfect make-ahead dessert.
Ingredients
- 225 gplain flour
- 225 gbutter (cold, cubed)
- 125 grolled oats (*see notes)
- 200 gcaster sugar (*see notes)
Directions
- 1
Weigh the cold butter and cut into medium size cubes.
- 2
Place the dry ingredients in the bowl of a food processor or a medium mixing bowl.
Food processor method
- 1
Use the pulse setting to combine the butter with the dry ingredients. The mixture should resemble course breadcrumbs.
By hand
- 1
Add the cold, cubed butter to the mixing bowl and use a fork or pastry cutter to cut the ingredients together until you have a very course mixture.
Assembling the crumble
- 1
Once you have a course buttery crumble topping, scatter the topping generously over the fruit filling and bake at 180ºC until the crumble is golden and the fruit filling is bubbling.
- 2
Divide between bowls and serve warm with vanilla ice cream or custard.