Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

Pear and Almond Crumble. This is so delicious! Having made apple crumble from as young as 12 years old, I decided to make some changes and play around with some flavors to make something new and delicious.

The humble apple crumble still features in my kitchen every so often, but I have to say, this Pear and Almond Crumble takes the traditional recipe to another taste level.

The addition of the ground almonds to the pear and almond crumble makes it crunchier and tastier, the pears adds a refreshing change to apple, and the addition of the spices seem to enhance the flavours of the pear and almond.

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I have to say, the combination of flavors, textures, and indeed the smells coming from the oven are truly delicious and a wonderful cooking and eating experience!

Served with warm custard or vanilla ice cream, this is by far one of my favorite and most pleasing desserts.

Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

In this recipe, I have made it easier regarding preparation time, by using mixed spice/pumpkin pie spice.

However, if you wanted to use a cinnamon stick, cloves and star anise and infuse the pears in hot water with the spices for a few hours, you could. I did this method at Christmas time, and it does give a gentle 'spice' flavor to every bite.

Really quite sublime. So let's see how we make this delicious Pear and Almond Crumble.

Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

45 minutes

Yield

4 servings

You will need

1 oven dish. Mine measures 12 x 8 and 3 inches deep.

Ingredients

For the Crumble topping


1 cup or 125 g Flour
⅔ cup or 75 g Ground Almonds
3 and ½ oz or 100 g chilled butter (just under 1 stick) cut into small cubes about 1-2cm pieces
1 Teaspoon Mixed Spice / Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
⅓ cup or 60 g regular sugar

For the Filling

1 kg or 2 lbs pears (about 5 pears) Choose hard pears, like Conference / Comice pears, peeled and sliced
A squirt of lemon juice (to stop the pears discoloring)
1 Tablespoon regular sugar
1 Teaspoon Mixed spice / Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 Teaspoon Almond Essence

You can use any fruit you like, fresh or tinned! Apples, peaches, rhubarb, blueberries, whatever you fancy!

Instructions

1. Switch the oven on to 180C, 350F, Gas 4. 

Make the crumble topping. 

In a mixing bowl, add all the crumble topping ingredients,

Pear Almond Crumble making the crumble topping

and using your fingers, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.

Pear Almond Crumble, showing consistency of crumble topping

You can use a food processor for the rubbing in, but it's more washing up! It should only take you 3 minutes or so by hand.

Make the filling.

2. In a bowl, add the peeled and sliced pears together with the other filling ingredients and combine so the pears are coated with the spices etc.

Then add to the baking dish.

Pear Almond Crumble add prepared pears to baking dish

Cover the pears completely with the crumble topping, but do not smooth the topping flat. Lumps and bumps will add to the crunchy texture.

Pear Almond Crumble, adding crumble topping to baking dish

My baking dish measures 12 x 8 and 3 inches deep. Just make sure your dish is deep enough to hold all the pears and topping!

3. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

Serve warm with some delicious custard or ice cream. To make our lovely Homemade Custard Click HERE

Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

You can make this recipe in individual ramekins, reduce cooking time to 25 minutes or until topping is golden brown. It will make about 4 - 6 ramekins

We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our post. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!

Flavour Ideas:
You can swap the pears for apples, peaches, pineapples, any fruit which isn't too soft.
Also try adding raisins with apples and a sprinkle of cinnamon

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Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

Pear and Almond Crumble

Yield: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

Pear and Almond Crumble. A lovely dessert with a nice refreshing taste, easy to make and great with ice cream or vanilla custard.

Ingredients

For the Crumble topping

  • 1 cup or 125 g Flour
  • ⅔ cup or 75 g Ground Almonds
  • 3 ½ oz or 100 g chilled butter cut into small cubes about 1-2cm pieces, just under 1 stick
  • 1 Teaspoon Mixed Spice / Pumpkin Pie Spice
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ⅓ cup or 60 g regular sugar

For the Filling

  • 1 kg or 2 lbs pears Choose hard pears, like Conference / Comice pears, peeled and sliced, about 5 pears
  • A squirt of lemon juice, to stop the pears discolouring
  • 1 Tablespoon regular sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Mixed spice / Pumpkin Pie Spice
  • 1 Teaspoon Almond Essence

Instructions

  1. Switch oven on to 180C, 350F, Gas 4
  2. Make the crumble topping. In a mixing bowl, add all the crumble topping ingredients and using your fingers, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs
  3. If you wanted to freeze this, you could use those aluminium containers to make the crumble and freeze before you put in the oven. When you want to use it, defrost and bake as normal. This does freeze very nicely.
  4. In a bowl, add the peeled and sliced pears together with the other filling ingredients and combine so the pears are coated with the spices etc. Then add to the baking dish. Cover the pears completely with the crumble topping, but do not smooth the topping flat. Lumps and bumps will add to the crunchy texture. ** My baking dish measures 12 x 8 and 3 inches deep. Just make sure your dish is deep enough to hold all the pears and topping!
  5. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.Serve warm with some delicious custard or ice cream.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 853Total Fat: 32gSaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 54mgSodium: 396mgCarbohydrates: 145gFiber: 21gSugar: 86gProtein: 10g

Nutrition information isn’t always accurate

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