Apple & Mixed Berry Crumble {Vegan}

You’ll love this quick and easy vegan apple and mixed berry crumble, made with frozen berries. Perfect for any time of year, endlessly adaptable and oozing delicious fruit flavours.

Fruit Crumble – A Classic British Pudding

A hearty baked pudding is the epitome of British comfort food. These individual berry crumbles are quick and easy to make, and can be prepared ahead and frozen at various stages of the prep.  Also, they are vegan and readily gluten free, so everybody can enjoy.

You can make and serve this recipe as a large family style dish, but I really like serving these in individual ramekins; it makes portion control that little bit easier as there’s no sneaking an extra half spoonful.  I also think that a pot for each person is a far nicer way to serve them.  Save up the ceramic pots from ready made pudding pots to reuse.

Pudding or Dessert?

It’s another one of those UK vs US thing. I say pudding to describe any sweet course at the end of the meal, but confusingly some puddings can also be savoury – such as a traditional steak and kidney pudding – and all sweet puddings can also be called desserts and vice versa.

And then a US pudding, which is normally a baked custard would, in my book, also be called pudding in the UK.

It’s all a bit confusing. Whatever you call it, simple recipes like this make it really easy to serve something sweet at the end of a meal for the family to enjoy.

How to Make Vegan Mixed Berry Crumbles

Step one – gather your ingredients together so everything is to hand – and to save rummaging in the cupboards once you start to cook.  All chefs have immaculate mis en place and it is an excellent habit for the home cook to develop as you are less likely to make a mistake or miss an ingredient out

I’ve used jumbo oats and plain white flour, but feel free to mix it up with a different flour to oat ratio, or try different flours or flakes.  Just keep the total volume about the same.  Adjust the sweetness if needed.

Step two – melt your vegetable shortening in a small pan over a gentle heat.   Mix the flour and oats together and pour over the melted fat.

Step Three –  Mix it all together with a spoon or a fork and break up all the clumps.   I find using melted fat is so much faster than rubbing it in when solid.

Fuss Free Tip – make a double batch of crumble, it takes seconds more work to do this.  Pop in a bag and freeze.  You can use and bake the crumble topping from frozen.

Step Four – Assemble the crumbles.   You will need 6 x 100ml or 4 fluid oz oven proof pots or ramekins.  Peel and chop a Bramley cooking apple and cover the bottom of each pot.  Cover the apple with frozen berries (you will need to chop up the larger berries), and then top with a teaspoon of sugar and then the crumble mix.

When all the crumbles are ready, you can either cook them straight away or pop them in the fridge for a day or so, or even freeze them.

Finally – cook at 180°C/375°F/GM5, for about 20 minutes, until the top of the crumble turns a light golden brown.

What I particularly love about these crumbles is the many different ways of preparing ahead of time. The crumble mix is easily frozen in a plastic bag, and the individual crumbles themselves can also be frozen. The only thing that probably not worth doing is cooking them ahead of time as the crumble topping will go soggy from the liquid in the fruit.

I made these crumbles using Trex vegetable shortening, which melts readily making it easy to mix in. It’s a fantastic dairy free alternative to butter for baking;  lower in saturated fat than butter, suitable for vegans and also free from hydrogenated vegetable oil, e-numbers, colours and preservatives. It also goes a long way: as it doesn’t contain water, you can use 20% less compared to butter when baking.

To learn more about Trex and for more recipes visit The Home of Family Baking, or try my recipes for Apple and Berry Pie or my Sfoof – or Middle Eastern Turmeric Cake.

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Individual Vegan Berry Crumbles

A delicious traditional vegan dessert. This is easy to make, especially if you make the crumble topping ahead of time and freeze it. These examples are made with Bramley apples and mixed frozen berries, but it's just change the fruit if you fancy something different.

Servings: 6

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Total Time35 mins

Ingredients

Crumble topping for 12 individual pots. Freeze half for future use.

• 125 g plain flour
• 60 g rolled oats
• 65 g vegetable shortening
• 45 g golden caster sugar

Filling for 6 pies

• 220 g cooking apples
• 180 g berries

Instructions

• Melt the vegetable shortening in a small saucepan.
  
• Mix the shortening, oats, and flour. Mix it all together with a spoon or a fork and break up all the clumps. I find using melted fat is so much faster than rubbing it in when solid.
• Divide the crumble mixture in half. Freeze half the mixture for future use.
  
• Peel and chop the apple into 1cm cubes. Cut any larger frozen berries - large blackberries & strawberries - in half. If they're too hard, let them defrost for a few minutes.
  
• Cover the bottom of six individual 100ml/4fl oz oven-proof ramekin dishes with the apple. Add frozen berries and top with the crumble mixture. Sprinkle sugar on top.
  
• Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180°C/375°F/GM5, until just golden brown on top.
  

Notes

• Nutrition details are per serving.
• This is a great prepare ahead recipe: freeze the prepared crumble mixture, or the prepared crumbles.
• It's best not to try and cook the crumbles ahead of time.
• This recipe is 6 Weight Watchers Smart Points per portion

• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.

Nutrition Facts

Individual Vegan Berry Crumbles

Amount Per Serving

Calories 153 Calories from Fat 54

% Daily Value*

Fat 6g9%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Sodium 1mg0%

Potassium 84mg2%

Carbohydrates 23g8%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 10g11%

Protein 1g2%

Vitamin A 35IU1%

Vitamin C 2.5mg3%

Calcium 7mg1%

Iron 0.8mg4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Course: Dessert, Pudding

Cuisine: Traditional British

Keyword: Apple & mixed berry crumble, berry crumble, Frozen berry pudding

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Recipe post for vegan berry crumbles sponsored by TREX – all opinions our own.

Another delicious use for frozen berries is a fresh and fruity jam.