Plum Crumble

Plum crumble is a portion-sized dessert of baked plums under a crunchy streusel of flour, sugar and cold butter. Just four ingredients, half an hour in the oven, and it turns out simply divine. Highly recommended.

Plum Crumble

A portion-sized dessert of baked plums under a crunchy streusel of flour, sugar and butter.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Servings: 2 servings

Course: Airy desserts

Cuisine: Home cooking

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 200 g winter damson plums
• 25 g flour
• 25 g butter cold
• 25 g sugar
• butter for greasing the ceramic ramekins

Method

 

1. Wash the plums, remove the pits and cut into pieces.
2. Grease ceramic ramekins with butter and fill them with plum pieces almost to the top.
3. For the streusel, rub the sugar, flour and cold butter into a crumb and sprinkle it over the plums.
   
4. Bake in an oven preheated to 180-190°C for 30 minutes, until golden. Remove and let cool for a couple of minutes.
   

Tips

• Be sure to use cold butter for the streusel - that's the only way you get a proper crumb.
• Grease the ceramic ramekins with butter and fill them with plums almost to the top.
• The crumble is best still warm - but eat carefully, the filling is very hot.