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This Fresh Peach and Sweet Cherry Crisp is amazingly easy and super delicious! Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream for a dessert everyone will love!
This Fresh Peach and Sweet Cherry Crisp is the dessert that I had prepared for a special family dinner recently. The recipe can be prepared in advance and rewarmed if desired. I love to serve them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It's a super summery dessert that no one can seem to resist.
I love to make this delicious sweet treat in individual oven-safe ramekins (which are also great for little tarts, quiches, soufflés, breakfast dishes and pots de crème) but it can also be made in a larger oven-safe pan/serving dish. I really like these classy white baking pans made by Pillivuyt.
The fun thing about this summer dessert is that it's super versatile. No peaches? Just sub nectarines. Don't like cherries? Raspberries or blueberries would also be delicious. You could even use the recipe with sliced, peeled apples in the fall.
I adapted this recipe from Bon Appetit and they used a bit of garam masala mixed in with the peaches. That sounded a bit odd to me, but it's amazingly delicious. You could omit that though, and add an equal amount of cinnamon, cloves or cardamon in the fruit mixture or in the crumbly topping.
The other great thing about this dessert is that it can be prepared well in advance and frozen - you'll be thanking yourself when you're having your next family get together or a dinner party with friends.
P.S. Wanna know a summer culinary lifesaver? It's this inexpensive OXO Cherry Pitter. I love this thing - it makes a salad, sauce or dessert with cherries a breeze! It can also be used with olives. There are lots of kitchen gadgets I can do easily without, but this one is essential in my kitchen!
This Fresh Peach and Sweet Cherry Crisp is a quintessentially summer, amazingly easy and super delicious dessert! Serve this dessert warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a sweet treat everyone will love!
- For the topping:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup 1 stick chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- For the filling:
- 1 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- ½ teaspoon garam masala
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 medium peaches or nectarines pitted and cut in slices
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup pitted sweet cherries
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Preheat oven to 350˚F. Smear the bottoms of 6 individual ramekins or baking dishes (with approximately ½ cup capacity) with the 1 tablespoon of butter
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For the crumbly topping, combine flour, brown sugar, and salt in a medium-size bowl. Rub butter into flour with your fingers until clumps form and no dry spots remain..
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Combine peaches and lemon juice in a medium size bowl and toss to coat. Sprinkle with the brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, garam masala, and salt and stir gently to combine.
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Divide the peach mixture between the prepared ramekins. Tuck pitted cherries around the peaches.
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Sprinkle with the crumble topping, breaking up into large pieces. I like to allow some of the peaches and cherries to show through the crumbly topping. Bake crisps until topping is golden brown and juices are thick and bubbling around the edges, 20–30 minutes.
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Serve warm. If desired make up to 1 day in advance. Store in refrigerator, covered. Warm in oven for 10-15 minutes at 325˚F just before serving.
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Crisps can also be made in advance and frozen. Remove from freezer several hours in advance to thaw, then warm as directed above.
Tulsi says
Would it be OK to use frozen fruit?
Chris Scheuer says
Hi Tulsi, I think you could but you may need a bit more flour since the fruit will be more watery.
Chantel says
Does this really require 9 hours and 12 mins
of prep time?
Lol! I trust that's a typo
Sounds yummy! Can't wait to make it!
Have a great day!
Chris Scheuer says
Haha! No, it doesn't. When I switched recipe plugins awhile back it messed up all my times. I've been trying to go back and fix them but with over 1100 recipes, it's taking awhile. I have fixed this one!
Tonya says
I made this recipe for dinner with friends last night. It was so sugary sweet we couldn't even taste the fresh peaches. I reviewed the recipe and did in fact measure everything correctly. Next time I think I would omit the brown sugar in the filling.
Chris Scheuer says
Thanks Tonya, that's a great idea for those who prefer a less sweet dessert.
Jeannie Larcombe says
Great looking recipe - maybe it is my Fibromyalgia that is missing something - but in the Filling List it calls for 2 tablespoons of Flour, and yet in the Instructions I cannot find a mention of what to do with those 2 tablespoons of flour. I expect it should be used in the peach mixture, mixed in well, to help thicken the filling. Hope I am right? I have not seen anyone else question those 2 tablespoons of flour so I wonder about my Fibro-Fog........ Thanks, Jeannie
Chris Scheuer says
Haha! No, I'm the one in the fog. Can't blame it on Fibromyalgia though, just a busy brain that always has a million things going through it. You're actually very observant and I appreciate it. I've amended the recipe to include the flour, thanks! 🙂
A says
I may have missed it in the recipe, but at what temperature do you bake these?
Chris Scheuer says
Hi A, it's 350˚F. Thanks for noticing that.
Chris Scheuer says
Hi Shirley,
I think a grill pan would work well for this. Hope you enjoy it.
Susan says
Oh, how awful for those two little girls - and a heart wrenching experience for the rest of the family. We had something similar happen on a trip to Florida to see my husband's parents and when our girls were little.. Not fun! I'm so glad to hear that the girls were well taken care of and felt before before the end of the trip. What a glorious crisp recipe. I am eating all the stone fruit I can right now and this one looks downright delicious.
Mary Hirsch says
I suspect with your medical background that you kept your composure a whole lot more than I would have done. I would have freaked. Glad that both girls are on the mend. Grandma's yummy food, especially this dessert will make things even better.
Veronica says
Oh goodness, how terrible! I'm glad they're better, but how scary they were so sick they had to go to the hospital! I don't like it when the curve balls aren't happy ones. Boo! As for your dessert, bravo! It looks incredibly juicy and delicious!
Madonna/aka/Ms. Lemon says
Nothing puts life in perspective like sick children. All other problems seem to fade away. I have had so many disruptions this year, but we are all rebounding.
Love your dessert. I am waiting for "good" peaches. Crisps are on my list.
I actually have a pitter, but during cherry season I was too sick, to use it but there is always next year. 🙂 I hear they pit olives, do you know?
Jennifer @ Seasons and Suppers says
What a perfect summer dessert and so glad everyone is well again! 🙂
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
Oh my goodness, so glad the girls have recovered but what an ordeal for them! This crisp looks scrumptious, just the thing to brighten everyone's mood after such a stressful few days!
Sophia @ NYfoodgasm says
Damn Chris! This looks great! Plus perfect for the season!
Denise Browning@From Brazil To You says
It looks terrific -- both the fruit crisp and the cookies. I have just had breakfast but I would not mind at all to eat these 2 treats. 😉
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
What a relief to know that everyone is on the mend, Chris! The summer fruit crisp looks very delicious!
Kathy Harter says
Is there a substitute I could use for garam masala?
Chris Scheuer says
Yes, you could add an equal amount of cinnamon, cloves or cardamon in the fruit mixture- any of those would be delicious.
Ilona @ Ilona's Passion says
This OXO Cherry Pitter looks so good. I spent so much time removing pits from my cherries the other day. The crisp looks delicious!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
Oh my, this story gave me goosebumps. I'm so glad you told us she was fine or I would have been upset all day. Poor little tykes. Grammy must have used every prayer in her arsenal and it certainly worked. I'm glad you're all better.
Now this crisp is my kind of dessert and in spite of the germs floating around, I would have helped anyone who couldn't finish their portion. 🙂
Charlotte Moore says
I sure hate the welcome was not as planned. Thank the LORD they are all better.
The peach cherry crisp looks great. I will be getting 12 boxes of peaches from SC this Sat. Lord willing. Only 2 of them are for us. Ha!!
Susan says
I am so glad to hear/read your post today and know that your sweet girl is on the mend! She looked so sick and forlorn in your daughter's first Instagram post from hospital and bouncing back, as children do, in another one.
Yes, family is so very important giving strength to one another in difficult times and sharing joy when all is right with the world!
Enjoy the rest of their visit...
Hugs
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert says
Wow - so sorry about the bugs and illness. That must have been very scary. Hope everything is back to normal and everyone is well. Love the dessert - it looks so juicy! Have a wonderful visit.
Vicki Bensinger says
This crisp looks wonderful but what an ordeal. How traumatic that your granddaughter had to spend the night in the hospital. I'm so glad all is well. Sounds like a very nasty bug.
Thank goodness for families. What would we do without them?
Monique says
Poor darlings!
Glad everyone is on the mend♥
Cowboy Cookies here they come:)
Pretty crumble..