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Peach and Cherry Crumble

July 9, 2020 By All That I'm Eating 20 Comments

Whenever peaches are in season I always plan to cook something with them. More often than not though I just end up eating the peaches from the fruit bowl because they’re irresistible. Not this time! My peach and cherry crumble is so deliciously summery and the colour of the fruit once it’s baked is divine. I’m so glad some of the peaches survived to make this crumble.

The delicate white flesh of the peaches combines so well with the vibrant red of the cherries. As the fruit was really ripe I only added a small amount of honey as that’s all it needed. Don’t skimp on the lemon, it brings a much needed sharpness to the crumble. We enjoyed this as it is but it would be even better with a dribble of double cream. read more

Filed Under: Baking, Butter, Cherry, Crumble, Fruit, July, Peach, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Summer Tagged With: cherries, crumble, pudding

Cranberry and Clementine Crumble

December 12, 2014 By All That I'm Eating 9 Comments

Cranberry and Clementine Crumble

I love cranberries and really try to make the most of them when they are around; they are almost fool proof when it comes to making jams and jellies as they are so full of pectin. This Cranberry and Clementine Crumble is a great way to use cranberries in a different way over the festive period and the addition of Cointreau adds a little something extra. I was asked to come up with a couple of wintry recipes as part of a project with Kenwood. I used one of the new Kenwood Chef Sense machines to test the recipe out at home and then I spent a day filming the recipes! I hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients

You will need (to serve 4):

  • 250g cranberries
  • 1 large orange, juice only
  • Splash Cointreau
  • 100g sugar (caster or granulated)
  • 100ml water
  • 75g butter, cubed
  • 175g plain flour
  • 50g caster sugar

Method

Put the cranberries, orange juice, Cointreau, sugar and water in a pan on a medium heat and leave to warm up until just simmering. Keep on a low to medium heat and wait until all the cranberries have burst. You want the mixture to have thickened but so you still have plenty of juice.

Add the butter, flour and sugar to a mixer and turn on to a low speed. Leave for a minute or so until you have a breadcrumb texture, you can turn it off sooner if you prefer to have some chunkier bits of crumble.

Put the fruit into a dish then top with the crumble. Place in a preheated oven at 180C for 30-40 minutes or until nicely browned.

I really enjoyed cooking this recipe as it smells so good when it’s all mixed together in the pan and when it’s cooking in the oven. Making the crumble in the mixer saves time as well as keeping my fingernails clean; imagine if I’d just painted them particularly festively and then got crumble all over them, it doesn’t bear thinking about. The combination of tart fruit, faint alcohol and orange is really good with the crunchy, sweet crumble top and when it leaks out over the top it’s such a nice colour. Serve with double cream, clotted cream or brandy butter.

Thank you to Kenwood for my Chef Sense Mixer and for the days filming. All opinions and words are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that support me.

Filed Under: Baking, Butter, Christmas, Cranberry, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, December, Fruit, Occasions, Orange, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Winter Tagged With: Baking, pudding, recipe

Strawberry, Mint and Elderflower Mini Crumbles

July 18, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 18 Comments

A crumble to me has a whiff of autumn about it. Apple crumble is a classic pudding but a while ago I tried a strawberry crumble and it was so good I couldn’t wait to give it a try myself. This is a pudding form of my previous cocktail post; a mixture of strawberries, mint and elderflower syrup but under a biscuity crust. The ingredients in this crumble scream of summer and the smell of cooking strawberries and buttery crumble is irresistible. read more

Filed Under: Baking, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Elderflower, Foraging, Fruit, Herbs, July, Mint, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Strawberry, Summer Tagged With: elderflower, foraging, pudding, recipe, strawberry

Rhubarb and Hazelnut Shortbread Crumble

July 15, 2012 By All That I'm Eating 33 Comments

Rhubarb and Hazelnut Shortbread Crumble - baked

There are times in life where a great slice of cake is just what you need. A bad day at work, it’s been raining and you’ve left the washing out or unexpected expenditure all seems insignificant, smaller somehow, when you’re eating sponge and jam. These problems can even disappear completely if it’s a cake fresh from the oven. There are those other times though. When cake just can’t cut the mustard and it’s the bite of a biscuit that you need.

I had this need, this craving for a properly good biscuit. Nothing disastrous, or even slightly unusual, had occurred but sometimes you don’t need an excuse. I had a fridge load of rhubarb that needed a good home. Rhubarb is always very happy under a crumble topping but a crumble wasn’t going to help my desire for a biscuit. I devised a cunning ensemble where biscuit and crumble would meet.  read more

Filed Under: Baking, Biscuit, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Fruit, July, Recipes By Month, Rhubarb, Seasons, Shortbread, Summer, Sweet Treats Tagged With: Baking, Biscuits, rhubarb, sweet treats

Rhubarb and Elderflower Crumble

June 4, 2012 By All That I'm Eating 26 Comments

baked Rhubarb and Elderflower Crumble

Elderflower has been an ever present flavour throughout my life. When I was younger it was always such a treat when we had a bottle of elderflower cordial or pressé in the fridge. I would relish the flavour trying to make it last as long as possible. I remember making ice lollies in the summer; orange juice, blackcurrant squash or lemonade but it was always the extraordinary elderflower lollies that got eaten first. Elderflower seemed rare, elusive and exclusive. 
 

Last year on a foraging trip I found some elderberries which meant only one thing: a few more months and I could finally pick fresh elderflowers. I had been waiting to pick some for as long as I can remember and t read more

Filed Under: Baking, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Elderflower, Foraging, Fruit, June, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Rhubarb, Seasons, Summer Tagged With: Baking, crumble, pudding, recipe

Damson and Apple Crumble

September 18, 2011 By All That I'm Eating 15 Comments

baked damson and apple crumble
Crumble is the food I turn to when the evenings start getting darker and it starts getting cooler. Especially this damson and apple crumble. The way the sweet, slightly tart fruit of choice bubbles and seeps through the crunchy, crumbly, biscuity top is a sure fire way to warm you from inside to out. What I love about crumble is that it’s so versatile; the fruit is whatever fruit you can get your hands on.  I think that a person’s crumble is as unique as their fingerprint. Some crumbles are like a great wave of shortbread on top of the fruit, some are all big and little bits scattered willy nilly all over the place, some add extra sugar on the top, some add nuts and some add oats. Whatever your crumble style, it’s your own.    Recently I bought some damson jam out of politeness at a local market. I don’t even like jam. When I got home I wondered what on earth I was going to do with it. I got some crusty white bread, some soft unsalted butter and a dollop of the damson jam and it was a revelation. I’m ashamed to say that the loaf and jar were consumed in one sitting. What have I been missing out on all these years? It turns out I do like jam but was left wondering where damsons had been all my life.  When I noticed some lovely damsons outside my local greengrocer I just had to have them – I’d run out of jam for one thing. They were crying out to be made into a crumble. As I didn’t have that many of them I added an apple to make it go a bit further and add a little sweetness. This damson and apple crumble was absolutely fantastic. The damsons add such richness and gorgeous colour, the apple is just detectable in the background giving it a lovely homely feel. This crumble had extra caramelised bits on the edges of the dish and peeling them off and chewing them has to be one of the most enjoyable things there is. If you’ve not had damsons before or are unsure how to deal with them then I urge you to give this a try. Crumble is such a tried and tested favourite, how could it go wrong?

Top Tips

Just like the crumbliness of your crumble is rather personal, so is what you choose to serve the crumble with. Cream, custard or ice cream? If you go for cream is it single, double, Gold Top or clotted? If custard, ready made or home made? If ice cream should it be vanilla with or without vanilla seeds or should it be clotted cream ice cream? It’s all very complicated and someone will always be upset no matter which you choose. I always opt for cream because I can stir it all together in the bowl and pretend I’m 8 years old again.  read more

Filed Under: Apple, Autumn, Baking, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Damson, Fruit, Oats, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, September, Store Cupboard Tagged With: Apple, damson, pudding, recipe

Quince and Apple Crumble – adventures with the quince

October 25, 2010 By All That I'm Eating 13 Comments

The quince used to be a hidden fruit. It seems it was embarrassed of its furry skin, ever varying sizes and odd looks. I had heard rumours of it returning to its former glory and I kept my eyes peeled and nostrils ready for a sight or a whiff of this mysterious fruit.  read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Fruit, Nuts & Seeds, Oats, October, Pudding, Quince, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Store Cupboard Tagged With: pudding, quince, recipe

Buttered Toffee Apple Crumble

October 12, 2010 By All That I'm Eating 14 Comments

When one suffers from less than optimal circulation in the extremities, they certainly know when the days are shortening and the evenings cooling. To rectify this and to warm the cockles there was only one thing for it. Apple crumble. read more

Filed Under: Apple, Autumn, Baking, Butter, Crumble, Dairy & Eggs, Fruit, Nuts & Seeds, October, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Store Cupboard Tagged With: Apple, pudding, recipe

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