How to Make Fruit Crisp

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Perhaps no other baked dessert is as easy as this. A crisp is a baked fruit dessert with some sweet crumbs baked on top. Use any fruit filling you like. This recipe serves about six people.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Lemon Juices For Fruit Filling
  • Sugars For Fruit Filling
  • 1 cup brown sugars
  • 3/4 pound butter
  • 2-3 cups sliced fruits
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 cups flour

Step1
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Step2
Mix the flour, cinnamon and brown sugar together, then add the butter until the mixture is very crumbly. Reserve.
Step3
Butter the bottom of a small baking dish and add the sliced fruit in a half-inch layer. If the fruit is not particularly sweet, toss it with some extra sugar and lemon juice.
Step4
Spread some of the crumb topping over the fruit, about a 1/4-inch layer. Be careful not to make it too deep.
Step5
Bake for about 15-25 minutes or until the topping turns golden.
Step6
Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Tips & Warnings

  • Use any fruit filling that you would normally use for fruit pie. Tougher fruits like apples should be pre-cooked. Soft fruits like berries can remain raw.
  • Peel most fresh fruit - the peels will fall off during cooking, as the fruit shrinks.
  • The crisp needs to be fairly shallow; the crumb topping doesn't take long to cook and burns easily, so the fruit layer must be thin enough to cook in 20 minutes or so.
  • The thinner the crisp is, the easier it is to scoop out.
  • For variety, you can add ground nuts, grated zest, rolled oats, or additional spices to the crumb topping. You can also add spices to the fruit, or try a mixture of fruits. This a good recipe to experiment with.

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on 6/30/2006 Use a glass pie plate and microwave the crisp for 15 minutes. The topping won't brown, but it will be done quickly without heating up the oven.

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