My summer love language is pink and fruity. All I want to do this weekend is put Van Morrison in my headphones, tool down the bike path at the beach, people-watch, seagull-watch, and express my affections in strawberries and raspberries.
Good, right? What more do we really need? (If your answer to that rhetorical question was: CRISP OAT TOPPING!!!… then you’ve totally come to the right place.)
We don’t even need a bowl for our mellow summer baking. This crisp topping can come together on a clean counter or a plain ol’ baking sheet.
Pile together flour, oats, sugar, and spice and work in cold butter and walnuts.
This is totally relaxed summer baking. Embrace it!
Flour, sugar, oats and spice. Gather it all with your fingers. It’s totally cool.
Quickly break cold butter into the dry ingredients. It’s like we’re making pie crust but much more mellow and spiced.
Gather in the walnuts and we’re all the way in the game!
Combine fresh raspberries and big strawberry bites. Add a big dose of crumble. We’re going to stir it together.
We’re adding flavor and coating the fruit in a bit of flour and oats. The fruit juices will bake and thicken beautifully.
The rest of the crisp topping is piled atop the fruit.
It’s a lot of topping. It’s serious.
Baked and golden. The more golden the crust, the more crisp the bites. Yes!
This crisp is elegant in its comfort and simplicity. The raspberries bake down into a jammy consistency and the strawberries become slight and tender, but still hold their shape. The amount of oat topping rivals the amount of fruit, making this crisp extra toothsome, extra crunchy, extra delicious.
Breakfast? Yes. Afternoon snack? Sure? Dinner? You know I’ve done it.
This is an anytime, summertime crisp. Do it up!
Strawberry Raspberry Crumble
makes 1 8×8-inch pan
1 pound fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
2 cups fresh raspberries (if using frozen, just thaw and drain)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup old fashioned oats
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)
Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Place sliced strawberries and raspberries in a square 8×8-inch baking dish and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, oats, spices, and salt. Add the butter and toss the mixture together with your hands. Break the butter up into the flour mixture until the butter is the size of small pebbles and oat flakes. This took me about 4 minutes. Toss in the walnuts (if using).
Toss a generous handful (about 1 cup) of crumble topping into the strawberry and raspberry mixture. Toss loosely with your hands. Spread fruit evenly in the pan and top with the remaining crumble mixture. Bake until fruit is juicy and bubbling, and the top of the crumble is slightly browned and crisp, about 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven, let cool slightly, and serve with vanilla ice cream. Crumble is delicious served warm and can be stored, covered, in the fridge and reheated in the oven or microwave for serving.
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As easy to pull together as one can get AND it was delicious. I followed the recipe exactly and everyone enjoyed it. Thanks so much for sharing!
This is hands-down the best crumble recipe I’ve made time and again. The tart raspberries and nutmeg/ginger make this sing.
I make this in the summer and for a lot of meal trains. It’s such a comforting treat. People know me for this recipe and ask for it.
Thanks Joy!
Got a last minute dinner invitation with a request to bring a dessert and really wanted to make something and not just pick one up at the store. Low and behold we had all the ingredients on hand (thanks enormous bag of frozen berries from Costco!) including the ice cream. The whole thing came together in less than 10 min. Walked to our friends’ house with the unbaked dish and it bubbles away as we ate dinner. It was a hit all around. Thanks for adding this reliable and easy workhorse to my repertoire!
It looks lovely. I am going to make this tomorrow. Thanksxxxx
This looks like something I should add to my brunch menu for Sunday. Yum!
Those look yummy!!! I caught the baking fever a couple of days ago, and have not been doing much else since:
https://lasagnolove.blogspot.de/2013/07/something-sweetbest-brownies-ever.html
Love from Europa,
Birdy and Bambi
This is so perfect! We have a strawberry patch, and a nice row of raspberry canes in our backyard. Now I have something new to do with them.
Thanks so much, Joy!
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I want to make this! It looks amazing )
Made this as an after dinner treat for my parents, they loved it! It was so quick and easy as well, and tasted sooo good. I love the slightly sourness of the berries with the crunchy sweet crumble
You have now made me want two things: to listen to brown eyed girl (since I am one lol) and to make this crisp! I <3 crisps and the way that they make the entire house smell.
I love making apple crisps in the fall and adding butterscotch or white chocolate chips to the top of the crisp towards the end because I just have to gild the lily sometimes!
Do you think this would work with nectarines and strawberries instead of the raspberries?
I just love these photos!!
YUM! I may make this up on the weekend. I have everything but the raspberries…
Nothing better than fruit crisp in the summer!
Love desserts like this, easy fast and bloody delicious!
I want to get so much strawberries to make this! I might make a dragonfruit/pear version. Would you think I’m weird?
Love the ease of this recipe. One pan creation of berry delight!
a big fruit crisp like this looks awesome!!
I’ll take a huge plate of this right now..thanks!! ;)
Expressing “affection in strawberries and raspberries”. Beautiful. Well-played.
I need to sit on the beach. away from my computer- good advice.
This is a good recipe. Thanks for sharing. I made it with berries and apples. D-lish!
Oh yes
The pictures you take are amazing! x
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looks amazing!!!
I love raspberries, strawberries and crumble…..heaven in a bowl!
I’m going to make this with homemade vanilla ice cream for my book group!
Our older son is named Van- some my favorites albums are Astral Weeks, Veedon Fleece, and most of Moondance.
The exact dessert I want for my tomorrow’s lunch ! Thank you, Joy :)
Hi Joy!
I made a crumble this past day also! I was just sitting here and eating some of it and thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be delicious if you could make a cookie out of this crumble topping?”
If I was going to pose that question to anyone and ever have any hope of it becoming a reality in my life, it would be you! So what do you think??
Yum! Oats and fruit make this a breakfast food…right? That’s what I’ll tell myself at least!
this looks great, Joy!
This is such a wonderful dessert. I would love it with ice-cream. I have a burning question: how do you manage not to be 200lbs? I think that if I baked that much, I would eat so much. I love your recipes!!
Summer baking at it’s best
Oh yes! I love this! So easy and so . . . tactile. You rock, Joy the Baker girl.
YUMMY!! This looks simply delicious! Xxx
Yum!! I want a bite.
I made a nectarine and strawberry crisp and a raspberry and nectarine crisp last week. Fantastic with cream or ice cream.
Crisps ahoy!
I like this recipe a lot…so simple, great ingredients, and surely berrylicious!
This looks delicious! Do you have any suggestions for an oat replacement? I’m allergic :( I was thinking of using something like Bobs Red Mill buckwheat hot cereal (when cooked with water it becomes a similar consistency as oatmeal. I just don’t know if the texture will be right for a crumble topping). Thanks!
Robin, maybe try chopped coconut? Like the big coconut flakes Joy uses in other recipes, but chopped even smaller so it’s closer in size to oatmeal? That might give the “bite” I imagine comes from the oats.
My daughter is allergic to oats, so I use Quinoa flakes as a substitute in crisps/crumbles. Still super yummy!
My all time favorite. Awesome recipe. Thanks for sharing this.
NOM NOM NOM! If I made this I wouldn’t even serve it on a plate. I’d take the entire pan and a big serving spoon and sit in front of the TV shooing away any hands that came near me.
I just made apple crisp last week (twice actually). Should try this soon.
BTW, love your well-used, well-loved baking pan!
It is perfect in every way. YUM!
Oh man, I was desperate for a crisp today. So, I made a peach crisp but I wish now that I had waited to see this post. My crisp definitely does NOT have the proper fruit to oaty topping ratio. Is it possible to make an extra batch of topping separately and add it on? Maybe on a cookie sheet?
Yes please, love your berry combo and crumble topping!
I love the crumble mixed into the fruit. Genius!
That looks so perfect. There is nothing better than a crisp to me.
Made a blueberry crisp earlier this week. Yum! I loveeee crisp oat topping :-) This may be on my list for later this week!!
Ha! Yes- my answer to that question was definitely “CRISP OAT TOPPING!” Lol. This looks super delicious and super perfect for summer.
Joy this is so perfect. Great fruit, butter, oats, brown sugar – summer in a pan with some lovely crumbly bits! And I love that your pan is well-used and broken in. I bet one or two desserts have been made in it…love that :)
Looks amazing! I love jammy goodness and crispy oats :)