The smell of peaches reminds me of:
dusty, dirty sneakers. light coming through peach tree leaves. shade. drinking from the hose. wet jean shorts. caked mud. my yellow Sony sport walkman. that Counting Crows cassette tape i loved. my sister’s freckled nose. my dad’s hands. my mom’s laugh. sleeping in the sun in the car, half hearing adults talk. pie. pie pie pie pie pie. pie.
My family and I used to go pick peaches during summer months.
We never had fancy fruit during the year. We didn’t buy containers of raspberries. There were no pints of blueberries in my fridge. Those were too much of a luxury. We had bananas… endless amounts of boring bananas.
But! In the summer! We went peach picking. I remember it like a slow motion, montage movie scene in my head.
I like the keep the peach smell memories tucked away in my crazybrain… you know, to think about awesome things when not so awesome things are happening. Life tricks. I got em. I’m so good at life is downright amazing. Not true. At all… but I’ve got the peach smell memory situation tucked away in my brain just perfectly… for emergencies.
Fresh fruit crumbles are absolutely the most delicious summer dessert, considering the minimal amount of manpower that goes into their creation.
The better the fruit, the better the dessert. It’s as simple as that.
Oh! And don’t try to line up the square colored dots in this photo collage. Don’t do it. It’s just not worth it.
There are some rules to enjoying this dessert:
You’re not allowed to eat all the of crunchy, crumble topping off the top. Unless you live by yourself.. then you totally can.
You must eat this dessert with ice cream. Vanilla, preferred.
You must take a moment to appreciate the beautiful mauve color that this crisp bakes up into. It’s really quite lovely.
Lastly, this dish must be considered a breakfast, lunch, and dinner item… good for all occasions.
Fruit sweet. Oat-y crisp. Comforting summer. Ice cream required. Good(ness).
Oh! I should also tell you that I’m pretty much obsessed with crumbles. Here’s proof.
Peach Berry Vegan Crumbles. Pineapple Strawberry Crisp. Apple Crisp.
For your summer eatings.
Peach and Raspberry Crumble
makes 1 8×8-inch square baking dish
5-6 medium ripe peaches, sliced
1 cup fresh raspberries (if using frozen, just thaw and drain)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup old fashioned oats
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Place sliced peaches 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 a generous handful (about 1 cup) of crumble topping into the peach 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.
Tammy
I will make this today with peaches and blackberries that I picked a few weeks ago.
Emily
From your photos, it looks like you used apples in your crumble as well? Is that true, and if so, which do you prefer: with our without apples in this recipe? Thanks!
Paola Parsons
Those are white peaches actually, but I agree they do look like apples :)
Jess
Great recipe! I substituted strawberries for the raspberries and it turned out great!
Melissa
I can’t wait to try this recipe AND where did you get that fabulous green dish??
Rita
can you use Oats flour?
Brittany
I am currently finishing my Labor Day weekend (aka, the end of summer) with this crumble and it is declicious. With a scoop of vanilla ice cream – perfect way to end the summer :-)
GastroStu
Great sounding recipe. I’ve been looking for ideas for the raspberry’s I’ve got growing in my garden. Thanks!
Sarah S
I totally made this the other day and didn’t share it with the kids at all. Then ate a helping for breakfast the next morning. When my hubs got home from work he looked at the crisp, looked at the kids and said “you guys must have loved mommy’s dessert!”. Blank stares from them. Ummm… yeah. It’s a good thing we’ve been married for like a thousand years. That was delicious.
Joy
Found this recipe on Pinterest. Yummm! It turned out great! My oven cooks slowly, so it took about an hour to finish. I may have sliced the peaches too thick, but it was delicious! Thank you.
joythebaker
so glad you found it!!
Kelsey
Went to the Playa Vista Farmers Market this morning and got the most vibrant peaches and raspberries. Just put this in the oven– already smells delicious!
Jessica @ bake me away!
I would scarf this crumble down. Isn’t the peach/raspberry combo called melba? Why is that? (nevermind, I googled that for myself) It’s such an old lady name. Now I want to make a Brown Betty Melba because it sounds ridiculous.
p.s. cute fishy plate!
Hillary [Nutrition Nut on the Run]
I love love that dishtowel! …and crisps, too!
Caral From SoCal
I have a peach tree in the backyard, its branches propped up with 2 x 4’s because of the weight of the fruit. We have picked, I have canned pints upon pints of yummy peach jam. I have frozen gallons of bright, amber-yellow slices. Last night I surrendered, invited 8 friends over with their families to join our 6. The whole mess of us picked peaches, made these yummy, yummy crumbly desserts and ate them with vanilla bean ice cream. It was heaven.
This morning, as I sit here looking out on that tree…it still seems to have as many peaches. I wonder if this is a miracle tree – like the oil and the flour in the Old Testament?
lynn @ the actor's diet
i’m obsessed with crumbles! i wonder if you can make one with jam or preserves?
Daniela
I just made this dessert last night and we all LOVED it! The ripe peaches and oatmeal together are delicious. We even ate it for breakfast this morning :)
My little sister also wants me to tell you that her middle name is Joy and she thinks that is really cool because she is also a big fan :)
Adriane
Planning on making this tonight! Delish!!!
Jenny
Dear Joy,
I made this recipe 3 days ago for my mother, sister, best friend and boyfriend. They all loved it. And kept asking for more. I nearly had to shove them all out the door in the end.
I’ll definitely be making this again!
Frostine
Makes me wish my peach tree had more than one peach on it.
marcie
Just popped it in the oven! can’t wait for these 30 minutes to pass! Perfect summer Sunday evening treat…thanks Joy!
Kristine
Made this yesterday for my friend’s birthday and it was delicious! Fresh fruit and all of that buttery, oat-y, crumbly topping- yum, yum, yum!
Kate B
Oh man, my family also didn’t have fancy fruit in our fridge growing up. (We don’t consider the blueberries fancy, because those containers are super-big, but anything that is in the short containers, like raspberries and blackberries, we did not do with regularity.) A few years ago, my husband would be getting raspberries and the like at the store and then ask me why I wasn’t putting them on my cereal in the morning, and I explained how they were fancy, and I wasn’t accustomed to just tossing fruit like that on ordinary things like cereal and he looked at me like I had another head. I’m glad someone else seems to understand. I can do it now, add fancy fruit to cereal, but it always feels wicked!
Mama Maria
JOY!
I just made this and it was everything I never knew I always wanted!!!
I didn’t have enough peaches so I used some nectarines and I also had to use blackberries instead of raspberries. It was so de-lish! I want you to know that I didn’t skimp on the butter, I used the real thing and I didn’t cut back. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you are a magical recipe angel.
♥ Mama Maria
the baker of goodness
I love any type of crumbles. There is a well known bakery here in Jersey that is known for its extra thick crumb cake. It’s almost all crumb on top and a very thin moist bottom.
Love your blog.
xq
oh yum, summer perfection.
Amanda Barkey
I love a good crumble… there is something so homey and rustic and comforting about it. i think its true summer comfort food :) yum. just made one for my husband with gluten free ingredients and mixed stone fruits (peaches, nectarines and plums!) flollowed your general crumble topping recipe tho. hes gunnna love it. i loled at one point because you say to ‘toss loosley with your hands’ i read it as toss lovingly with your hands… i thought ‘aww thats nice’ :) anyways, good crumbles.
Melissa
Yellow Sony Walkman + August and Everything After….what I wouldn’t give to be that angsty teenager for an hour. (Tops!) Thanks for bringing it back, girl.
You do know that crumble is never *not* a breakfast food, right?
Foodtopii
This dish reminds me of a peach cobbler. Does it matter what kind of peaches I use? I’m a fan of white peaches.
lidia@ sugarslut
i love your photography and styling skills. but especially in this post. btw those peaches look amazing!
Sara h
I was at the grocery picking out the first of the summer peaches with my 3 1/2 yr old the other day. He was watching and learning as I selected the fruit and announced on the 6th one that I wasn’t “doing it the right way.”. When I questioned him as to why he replied, ” you didn’t smell that one.”. ‘Nuff said.
Naina
This looks too yummy! Also, I have major tablecloth envy.
Dana
We had leftover peaches from the Farmer’s Market and came upon your recipe at the perfect time. We made it tonight and it is delicious. And I completely agree about the smell of peaches. Nothing reminds you of summer quite like that wonderful smell!
Mama Maria
Joy, you are FREAKING amazing!
Lisa
Crumbles and cobblers and fruit pie are dessert heaven. Thank you for sharing this beautiful creation through beautiful photographs. Also love that fish plate.
Amanda S
O my you totally knew what i wanted for this weekend, i had to buy raspberries they were super cheep at the store and now you come up with this!?!?! Stick a fork in me i’m done!
Jennifer Frick
I can’t wait to have friends over again to try this dish.
I love summer..
I love pretty dresses, painted toes, and tan lines no matter how many different sets.
I love the smell of my son after a day of sunscreen, pool time, and running.
By the way, did I mention, I love summer? :)
Keep up the awesomeness that is the blog and podcast, I love them. Yes, almost as much as summer!
Miss B
I am also a crumble-addict in the summer when fruit is beautiful. (Italian plum is my favorite-favorite, and cherry is really excellent, though after pitting a million cherries last year to make a giant batch, I swore off that particular variation for a long time.) I usually cut the amont of sugar (and I use brown, not white), add almond and flax meal to the oat-y topping, and walnuts or pecans, and then I can feel quite justified in eating it for breakfast every day. Without ice cream, but sometimes with some nice greek yogurt spooned on top. I mean, that’s basically granola, right? (If you ignore all the butter, I mean.) I think I need to make some crumble this weekend…
Jennifer G
You are a dangerous, dangerous woman.
Jan
I am a sucker for crumbles. This one looks extra good. I might make this but might toss in some Jack Daniel’s because last year I made a crumble-topped peach pie in which I threw in some JD, and it was awesome. Just sayin’. I’m all for adding booze to a dessert whenever possible, for the flavor of course ;)
Lizabean
Two more reasons you are my favorite food blogger:
1) You are totally right that fruit crumbles are one of the most amazing and simple desserts. In fact, I usually keep the sugar to a minimum, because I’m mostly interested in the fruit, not all that added (unnecessary) sweetness!
and
B) If it was a cassette, you’re probably talking about August and Everything After, which is to albums as fruit crumbles are to desserts (i.e., the best ever).
Oh, and I made your amazing chicken pot pie recipe last night too, and it has been permanently added to my supper repertoire.
Thanks again, you’re the best.
Pam
Oh my goodness, this looks absolutely incredible. I have a peach tree in my backyard and now I know exactly what to do this year!
Taylor
LOVE that baking dish! Where is it from?
Annie
Finally someone posts a summery crumble…thanks joy!
K8Scarlett
Made this last night for my boyfriend and we loved it! Delicious.
The Café Sucré Farine
Love this peach-melba combination! I think every country has their own version of this – my background is German and we ate something similar growing up but called it “kuchen”. What ever you call it I also love anything with a crumble topping! Thanks, Chris
Lucia
Ok, Joy.
Peaches make me think about eating a ripe one on a Paris bench;
about juice running on my skin;
about sugar and mint;
about my peach tree growing up;
about your crumble;
about nice girls with pink and white silk skirts;
about swimming pools.
Kristy
I’m so excited for stonefruit season, especially peaches. I see this coming to the Fourth of July barbecue I plan on attending.
Christine
Now I have to drag out the Counting Crows album…. :)
Margie
Palasades Peaches in Colorado in August….thank goodness I will be there this August to enjoy them….it is 110 degrees in Arizona today I plan to make this dessert with them….then hike the Rocky Mountains …then eat more peaches.
Celeste Michelle
You’ve basically outlined the summer from my youth, except my sony walkman, containing ‘August and Everything After’, was pink and the freckles were mine!
LB
My family always picked strawberries…now whenever I eat strawberries I flash back to my 10 year old self walking the strawberry fields…we always made homemade ice cream when we got the strawberries home.
Courtney
Joy!! Love it, but gotta question — why do your peaches look simliar to apples? It looks like you have 2 different types of peaches in there!
maria
I love the simplicity of this recipe! Basic, clean and fragrant. Thanks! I wish you lots of pints of blueberries and many containers of raspberries in your fridge all summer long!
Jill J
Have you ever tried using a cast iron pan when you make an apple crumble? It makes it extraordinarily wonderful! A cast iron pan is not so good with peaches or berries since these fruits seem to interact with the cast iron pan and gives the crumble a metallic taste. However, this does not happen with apples….whoopie!!!
Joy, I love your blog!
Amanda
Joy, that bowl doesn’t look like dessert… it looks like breakfast. Fruit and oats are definitely morning fare, so I’m thinking less sugar and serving with yogurt would make this perfectly acceptable!
Susan (Oliepants)
I have everything but the raspberries. And, I wonder if blueberries would work in substitution. What a wonderful recipe for the summer time. I look forward to all the fruit-filled desserts for summer picnics and get togethers.
Megan
Smitten Kitchen has a recipe for peach and blueberry cobbler (http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/07/cornmeal-drop-biscuit-peach-blueberry-cobbler/) So I’, sure you could sub blueberries in this dish too!
Nicole @ The Dirty Oven
Fruit picking is the best! I remember picking fruit as a kid but alas I ended up eating too much and getting sick. Counting Crow….hmmmm I bet you were a Hootie and the Blowfish fan as well. Too much 90’s fun!
Thanks for the post and I can’t wait to try this one out. Love you podcasts they make me smile.
Caoimhe
Can’t wait to try this one! And Joy I love your Fishy plate, where did you get this one?!?
Seanna Lea
This is awesome. I have strawberries, but I was planning on eating them plain. I might need to rethink that idea!
Abbe
That baking dish is amaaaaazinnggg. Is that another lucky Anthropolgie sale find? Because I want it.
sherri lynn
I have fresh peaches and raspberries in my kitchen right now. It must be a sign.
blueka
I found a recipe once for a peach crisp/crumble recipe that contained all of your standard topping ingredients – sugar, oats, butter, etc – but also had roughly crushed graham crackers in with it. Something about those graham crackers with the peaches was the most AMAZING flavor. You are driving me to bake up some peaches!! YUM!
Kate M.
This looks AH-mazing. I am afraid to make it…because I think I would eat it all in one sitting. le sigh.
Also-I LOVE that green baking dish. So pretty!
Megan
This is the pretties!
Love your peach memory. I have blueberry memories!
homegrown countrygirl
Joy, this is a lovely post… maybe my very most favorite one ever (and that’s saying a lot because I have a lot of favorite JoyPosts). But really, what a beautiful memory and so well written… love it!
From California with Love
Oh, that looks so yummy! And how cute is the fish plate??!!
Tim
Wow!! This looks sooo good I’m tempted to make a midnight run to the store and make it tonight. Let me know if you need a tasting intern… I’m your man.
Lindy
Thank goodness I live alone, because that means I get to eat all of the crunchy topping! that’s my favorite part!
sheila @ Elements
I can smell the peaches as I’m looking at your pictures and reading your post. *sigh* I can imagine the each heavenly bite.
I remember going blackberry pickin’. Ooooooh…blackberry cobbler is still my favorite.
By the way, we never had fancy fruit either. We had apples from the apple tree. Pears from our neighbor’s pear tree. Strawberries from the strawberry patch, and of course the wild blackberries. Oh yeah…we had rhubarb that was planted around our flag pole. :)
Katrina
This is such a yummy looking dessert! I really loved baked peaches in any form. Yum!
Lisa A.
Your picture of those peaches is gorgeous!!!!! They look luminescent. Good job :)
Kelli
Joy, you are wonderful. Whenever I feel a little sad or stressed I always click over to your blog and it always makes me feel better. You and your food is always so cheerful – especially this delicious looking crumble! Thanks for being awesome.
Karriann Graf
This is on my definitely must bake this weekend list! Happy Baking Joy!
Hannah@ Bake Five!
the smell of peaches can never be compared with dirty sneakers, joy!!!
but whatever, that crumble looks perfect.
Kat @ Cupcake Kat
I lopve crumbles and can’t wait to get some delicious summer peaches
Francesca
that looks so phenomenal!
xoxo,
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Chris Dickerson
What’s with all the fruit? I just want “Crumble Crumbles” (covered in crumbles!).
Emily Rose
How are you not fat? I would bake every day, all day if I could, but the jeans crimp my style!
Laura @ SweetSavoryPlanet
We don’t have peaches yet in our area and I am oh so ready. Yum.
Caset
Uf. Eating the crumble off the top is the best part. This was probably the first dessert I ever learned to make (though substitute fresh blackberries for the raspberries), mostly by sneaking all of the crumble as my mom put it together. Definitely makes a fantastic breakfast.
Lauren at Keep It Sweet
The smell of peaches reminds me of summer camp:-) This looks delicious!
Katie
Your recipes always make me so hungry and they look so beautiful. I can’t wait for peaches to come into season here so I can try this.
Dana@TheSundaySweet
I was going to make some peach crumb bars, but this looks better!! I love peaches. To eat a peach in Georgia is on my bucket list. It’s going to happen.
la domestique
I grew up in the south where people sold peaches out of the back of old pickup trucks on country roads while lazy cows watched on. It was hot and humid and my freckle nosed sis and I sat in the back seat eating the juicy fruit with sticky hands. :)
Juls
Its been years since I have a crumble. I have bad associations of the wet and gooey (in the bad way) crumbles being served at school. They were properly nasty. But this looks so delicious and I have a coeliac friend whose been hinting that he wants me to make him a gluten-friendly crumble and up to now, I admit, I’ve been a shite mate and have not been arsed because gluten free cooking is HARD but I think these beautiful pictures are inspiration and a sign that I should buckle down, make a luv-er-ly crumble and I will never, ever regret it.
Lynne @ 365 Days of Baking
I have to say that this looks really yummy, but I’ll have to substitute another fruit for the peaches. I think I’m allergic to them because they always make my throat itch. Weird.
That melting ice cream on the top makes me want to pick up that spoon and dig right in anyway.
Kerry
I need to live alone immediately just so I can make this & eat all that delicious crumble off the top myself. Or maybe I could just make a bowl of the crumble top? For breakfast? All good ideas, but my favorite part? Yeah. That fish plate. It’s adorable and so random.
Kathryn
OMG Joy! That looks so good I wish I could dig in right now.
Absolutely for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner.
Stephanie
It looks so gorgeous. Simply the perfect summer dessert. And yes… breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
nancy k.
Oh , Yum! What could be better than fresh peaches and raspberries .
I can’t wait to try this recipe…thanks, Joy!
One in a Brazilian
I think peaches (those really sweet, candy tasting peaches) are my favorite fruit. We didn’t have them growing up in Brazil, so I’m making up for it now, as an adult. It’s kind of embarrassing the amount of money I spend on peaches and nectarines at the farmer’s market. But they are available only for a few months, right? That’s my excuse anyway…
Laura
Again, you leave me drooling Joy. I am in need of some oats now, and peaches are my favorite, along with strawberries.
Judy
Joy,
That peach and raspberry crumble you made for Father’s Day was SOOO delicious-it really made my day! I just went to the Farmer’s Market and bought peaches and HUGE raspberries and I’m now ready to make my own dessert. I might eat the whole thing in one sitting. Should I? Maybe before Dan gets home from work…?
Love you, Aunt Judy
joythebaker
hahaha! i support this!
lynn @ the actor's diet
simple lovely recipe – peaches and raspberries are so good together!
Charlotte
Hi Joy…..
I loved the reminiscences from your childhood. Now in my late 70’s, I can still remember, also as a child, the exquisite scent of tree ripened pears from our next-door neighbor’s back yard tree. With heavily laden branches, propped up, lest they break, the tree seemed as old as Mr. Deveroux himself, who tended it daily; I recall watching him apply some sort of compound meant to protect the trunk where the bark had split over the years. I could tell that he loved that old tree. Across the fence he would often hand me the juiciest, most delicious pears I have ever tasted…to this day!
I recall the day that I was told Mr. Deveroux had died, and I was sad. That feeling was compounded by the fact that I knew the tree had also lost the one who loved it and cared for it. Not long afterward, it too became diseased for the last time and it was cut down.
Mr. Deverouz had never married. Perhaps that’s why he put so much of himself into this relationship with the growing things in his backyard, such as the old fruit tree. I see that as quite lovely and hope that your readers might agree.
Dannie
Is it crazy reading about peach picking makes me want to visit my cousin in GA to try and get the best peaches possible? (I mean you can’t go wrong in the peach state!)
Sarah S
I love crumbles! We too, didn’t have fancy fruit year round – it was apples, bananas or oranges. As a result when my kids are whining for fresh organic blueberries in February it makes my eye twitch a bit and makes me feel like pulling out the “starving kids in Africa” speech. Except no one, APPARENTLY, gives that lecture anymore. Sad.
Maggie@BritishBaking
Oh Joy this recipe looks beautiful!
It reminds me of my Mum who used to make Apple and Peach crumble which was a gorgeous combination.
Kristen
forget dessert…I want this for breakfast!
Heidi @ Food Doodles
Mmmm, that looks delicious! I love all kinds of crisps, crumbles and cobblers. Or any dessert with fruit. Yummy :) And I know exactly what you mean. I do a little crazy when all we have in the house are bananas, even though I love them too. I live for fancy fruit :D
Krafty Keely
So simple and so scrumptious! I wish I was going home right now work on making this!
Laura
Joy! This looks so divine! I can’t wait to try the recipe, and I totally back you 100% on the vanilla thing. I went and smelled a peach promptly after reading, you are right – they are great. When I was a kid, we made our own popsicles in the summer. Do you have an fantastic sorbet/popsicle/fruit tricks??
I’m off to wash and peel my peach. Here peachy, peachy, peachy …
Tammi Marie
YUM
Maris(In Good Taste)
I will so be eating the crumbles off the top. Probably in one sitting!
Georgia
It’s winter here in New Zealand and I’m going to make this with apples and pears for breakfast!
Elizabeth Ann
This looks AmAZING!
Alexis
Loving the Anthropologie fish plate! I came thisclose to purchasing one on sale last month. But decided against it. Big mistake. Huge.
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
Thanks – I’m drooling now! I can smell peaches – must be your great descriptions and visual suggestions :) Great recipe and post – again!
Sophie Delphis
Beautiful! I think those rules are right on the mark.
Michelle
summer’s comfort food for sure. I could get down with an entire platter!
Hannah at Fleurdelicious
Joy! Is this part of your summer plan to explore pies/cobblers/crostadas etc? (yay homefries!) if so, way to go, pursuing your summer dreams! If not…that’s ok. Crumble is always awesome.
P.S I don’t live alone, but I DO eat all the crunchy topping. I justify this by saying, “well I made the dessert anyways, hello”
Natalie
Counting Crows and water from a hose?!!? I think YES! (O wait, I still do both sometimes). Time to get a cobbler-makin’!
Adrienne
yuuummmmm! after reading this post, I ran out & got some peaches :O) My crumble is in the oven right now!! Keep up the great recipe inspiration!
Rocky Mountain Woman
Our fruit crop is pretty slow this year because, well, it just quit snowing about a week ago!
I am in serious crave mode for cherries and peaches…
sigh…
Anna
Girl… I LOVE how you think
jess? @ Multicultural Melbourne
Well I don’t know about anyone else, but the last rule shall now be set in stone, and as soon as Melbourne summer hits, I shall be stocking up on peaches and raspberries and enforcing this rule in my house! Yum!!
Leah
Counting Crows! That album and Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill are full of the songs that remind me of my teenaged years. I’m going to listen to them right now. Thanks for the reminder.
Nourhan @ Miss Anthropist's Kitchen
Yum, I love crumbles!
Courtney
I am so glad I just bought all those peaches and raspberries. I just knew they were meant to be together…in some sort of toasty, warm, crunchy, sweet dessert. This will be perfect.
Alena {Oh, It's Just Perfect!}
I know what I’m making for dessert tonight!! Yum.
kristacular
yummity yum!!!!!
Annie
Yum, yum, yum…. I spent an entire summer once perfecting my peach pie, but when in doubt, I LOVE a crumble, a cobbler or ANYTHING with lovely baked fruit!
EB
Yes. Please!
Elle
What a wonderful post! I can never bear to bake summer fruits. They are so perfectly delicious as they are born. I guess I like my girls natural with no makeup ;) But your photos and writing are fantastic. You are my workday pick-me-up.
Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga
I love crumbles. I mean, I love them!!! I make a raw vegan GF apple crumble that’s so good…and easy! I need to make your versions!
Growing up, I didnt use to have “luxury” fruit like blueberries or blackberries but in the summer, my dad’s garden for about 2-3 weeks would produce more raspberries than we could eat at once and my mom would make rasp crumble with the extra ripe berries and I still dream about it!!!
And lining up dots, photo collage projects, blogging.photography.is.a.big.time.suck. Don’t I know :)
heather (Heather's dish)
My evening is about to get owned by making and eating this!
cindy
one of my first memories EVER is of me picking peaches with my grandfather when we still lived in California. i love this post.
Gen
I could eat this for breakfast!!! Perfect for a summer treat yummy!
Kristin
Oh, man. Drinking from the hose takes me back . . . my grandparents’ hose had the best tasting water ever. I also liked pulling up carrots from their garden, rinsing them with that same hose, and eating them immediately. We picked peaches at my great-aunt’s house. They were tiny, but delicious. Yummy summer memories :)
I will have to make this ASAP . . .
Mandy@Withmilkandflour
This looks like summer in a bowl, yum! Cant stop eating cherries and strawberries at the moment, i love the summer fruit season.
hollycakes
also :)
wet jean shorts & drinking from the hose… totally brought me back!!!
feet all wet & covered in grass & my mom yelling at me to stay outside! :)
nailed it. thanks for the flashback
Meg
Yummmmy. I made some Strawberry Rhubarb crumble to celebrate the first official day of summer. And yes, I agree, the only way to eat a crumble is warm with vanilla ice cream!
hollycakes
yum! yum! yum!
you more than made up for the pb & oat debaucle ;)
these look amazing… i think i will try them ALL.
delight!!
Erin @ Cake Makes Sense
This post makes me want to go fruit picking. I only did it once, with cherries. But I do remember it fondly. Recently, my family went to a strawberry festival. It was amazing – strawberry eating contests, “world’s largest” strawberry shortcake sold for $2 a slice-the-size-of-a-newborn, and other deep-fried strawberry delights. Normally I wouldn’t recommend frying delicious fruit desserts, but exceptions must be made. Never say never. Your crumble, however, looks like it needs nothing extra. Except for my spoon, mercilessly digging in. Yum!
Nicole
I am so making this tonight, before the ton of peaches I have goes bad!
annie
Oh YAY Joy, this post took me back! I have similar soul-deep memories of picking ranier and bing cherries in the summer with my family, so high up on the rickety wooden orchard ladder that no one could even see me up in the tree, surrounded by heavy, shiny masses of ripe gold and maroon cherries. Bliss.
Going to the farmers market tonight to get a flat of ripe peaches and make this. I (heart) summer!
jen @ the baked life
peaches remind me of why I need to wear a bib while eating them.
I believe crumbles are the best thing to feed boys. The love them. It’s all the butter, sugar, fruity deliciousness.
Khushboo @ Two Megapixel Food
I think one of these days I will have to raid your kitchen to steal all your plates and placemats. We’re having guests on Sunday and am definitely making a peach crumble!
Callie Feyen
Lovely post. I loved drinking from the hose. It’s what I’m going to introduce my girls to this summer. :)
Also, the other day at the gym I forgot my mp3 player in the spin room and had to go back for it. Except I said, “Can I get back in the spin room? I forgot my WALKMAN.” The guy said, “You’re what?” Oh dear.
Emalee
Crumble/crisp is my favorite dessert of all time (with icecream).
Joy, try making chilled beet soup! I think you might like it!
Victoria
that looks so amazing. I need to try that vegan crisp recipe!
Kathryn
I always think of crumbles as being a winter dish but that does mean you are somewhat limited in your choice of fruit. Maybe it’s a UK thing? The combination of peach and raspberry is a winning one though. And the fish plate in the top picture? Love!
Gina @ Running to the Kitchen
Fruit crumbles are amazing in the summertime. I want to make like 1 a week to enjoy all the fresh fruit possibilities!
Baking Holly
I Absolutely love crumbles. in my food, in icecream…not in my drinks though. I wish I lived by myself so I could eat the top off. That looks fantastic! I love how you always include a fam story.
Question..does it really matter if you cut the butter into cubes? Or is it just for picture beauty?
katie
this has tonight’s dessert written all over it. heck, tonight’s dinner? I know you would approve.
chloe @ 321delish
I LOVE crumbles…they are such a summer dessert special. Esp with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top!