Love fruits and also baked goodies that scream fruits coupled with the warmth and delicious smell of gluten and butter? Then you must try these recipes that embody Fall fruit desserts using Autumn or Fall’s best fruits – plums, pears, and apples. Armed with these recipes your home will turn into a paradise of bakery smells that might just bring the curious knocking.
1. Apple Crumble
(Serves 8)
Ingredients:
Crumble Topping
- 120 gm allpurpose flour
- 160 gm brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 115 gm unsalted butter, melted
Filling:
- 1 kg green apples
- 100 gm granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 190°C and lightly grease an 8or 9inch baking dish with butter.
- Peel, core, and cut the apples into quarters to make bitesized pieces.
- Add the apples, sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl, then toss to coat the apples. Set aside.
- Sift flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon, and mix in a bowl. Add the melted butter to the bowl and mix with a fork until you have a crumbly mixture. This is the topping.
- Pour the apple mixture into the prepared dish, spread evenly, and sprinkle the topping over the apples.
- Place in preheated oven and bake for 3545 minutes, until the top is golden brown.
- Remove from oven carefully and let it cool for 15 minutes. Check if the apples are tender.
- Serve the apple crumble, warm with vanilla ice cream.
2. Pear Crumble
(Serves 8)
Ingredients:
For the Pear Filling:
- 600 gm700 gm ripe pears (approx 6 pears)
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
For the Crumble Topping:
- 50 gm walnuts
- 150 gm allpurpose flour
- 50 gm rolled oats
- 100 gm brown sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 125 gm cold unsalted butter, cubed
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 180°C and generously butter an 8inch baking dish.
- Wash and peel the pears and cut them into quarters, then remove the cores and cut them into 1.5 cm chunks.
- Add the pears to a bowl and sprinkle with lemon juice and cornstarch, tossing to coat.
- Transfer to the buttered baking dish and spread in an even layer.
- Chop walnuts into small pieces and add to a bowl with flour, oats, brown sugar, and salt. Mix to combine.
- Cut the cold butter into small cubes and cut cold butter and add to the flour bowl, mixing with your fingertips until you get a coarse mixture.
- Take handfuls of crumbly mixture and sprinkle over the pears in the baking pan, covering them, with chunks falling off your hands, they don’t need to be fine or evensized.
- Transfer the baking dish to the oven and bake for 4045 minutes. Watch out for the bubbling edges. Once done the top will turn a golden hue with the pears being tender.
- Remove from the oven and cool off for 20 minutes.
- Spoon portions into bowls and serve warm with whipped cream on the side.
3. Plum Crumble Bars
(Serves 8)
Ingredients:
Crumble
- 200 gm allpurpose flour
- 65 gm granulated sugar
- 60 gm unsalted butter, chilled
- 1 egg
- ⅓ tsp baking powder
- Small pinch of salt
Plum Filling:
- 400 gm fresh plums
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 40 gm allpurpose flour
- 65 gm granulated sugar
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a 13x18inch baking sheet with parchment.
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until combined.
- Add cold butter cubes to the flour mixture and using a fork cut into the flour and work the mixture until you get coarse but mixed ingredients.
- Whisk the egg in a separate small bowl, then create a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour the egg into it. Using a fork, slowly incorporate the the egg into dry ingredients.
- Once a dough starts to form, use your hands to knead. Don't over knead, stop when just done.
- Refrigerate the crumble, covered with a plastic wrap, while you prep the plums.
- Wash the plums thoroughly, halve them, and remove the seed. Cut them into small cubes and add to a bowl.
- Add lemon juice, flour, and sugar to the plum bowl and toss to coat the plums. Set aside for five minutes to absorb.
- Take half of the chilled crumble and compress it into the prepared pan. Spread the plum mixture, leaving a small border around the edges. Crumble the remaining dough over the plums
- Bake the plum bars for 40 minutes until they turn golden on top and firm.
- Take them out from the oven, and once they cool completely in the pan itself, cut them into squares.
- Clean the knife in between to get cleaner cuts and eat as is or with ice cream.