So what’s for dessert tonight? If you’re stuck for ideas, I’d love to share this strawberry and peach crisp recipe with you. It’s sweet and delicious, made with fresh strawberries and peaches, and you will love it! This easy summer dessert with peaches ticks all the boxes. Everyone loves this strawberry peach dessert. It is easy to prepare and tastes incredible!
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Apart from the fruit, this strawberry peach dessert calls for oats, flour, sugar, butter, and cinnamon. That’s all you need to make it. I bet you have those ingredients in the kitchen already.
What is a Crisp Anyway?
A crisp is like a cobbler or crumble but not quite the same. This strawberry and peach crisp is a baked dessert with an oat-based topping. A crumble would have a thick streusel topping made with ingredients like flour, butter and sugar.
A cobbler, on the other hand, will have dollops of biscuit dough or similar on top. So you can see a crisp isn’t too different from a cobbler or crumble but the oat topping on this easy summer dessert with peaches makes it truly a crisp!
How to Make this Strawberry Peach Dessert
After combining the oats with flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon, you can cut in the butter. Either use a pastry cutter or a fork for this. Cutting in the butter means the mixture will gave a sand-like consistency. The butter should be cold when you are combining it, for the best results.
The next step in this easy dessert made with fresh strawberries and peaches is to add the fruit to a baking dish and then add the topping. Finally you just have to bake the strawberry and peach crisp. It will take about 35 or 40 minutes depending on the depth of the dish you used as well as your particular oven.
How to Serve Strawberry and Peach Crisp
I love this warm from the oven with a scoop of ice cream on top. Whipped cream would also be great. I do recommend letting it cool down for 10 or 15 minutes before you serve it.
For some reason, fruit pies and crisps seem to get molten hot in the middle and you don’t want to burn your mouth! This dessert would be perfect after any kind of main dish.
How to Store this Strawberry Peach Dessert
Tightly wrap the baking dish with any leftovers with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to four days. It is also freezable. Let it completely cool and then double-wrap in foil.
This tasty dessert made with fresh strawberries and peaches will freeze for up to three months. Thaw it overnight then warm it for 20 minutes in a 350 degrees F oven or until it’s warmed up.
Benefits of Strawberries and Peaches
Not only is this delicious but you can also enjoy the nutrients from the fruit. Strawberries are rich in fibre, vitamins and antioxidants. They also offer magnesium and potassium, which are important electrolytes the body needs.
As for peaches, they are rich in antioxidants too. Peaches also have Vitamin C, E and K, as well as iron, fluoride and potassium.
Which Oats are Best for a Crisp?
Although this easy summer dessert with peaches is already easy, it’s always worth knowing a tip or two. You are maybe wondering about the type of oats to use.
Oats come in different varieties such as rolled, quick-cooking, steel-cut, and old-fashioned. You can use whichever you happen to have to hand, although different oats give different textures.
Old-fashioned oats take longer to cook which means they will give a chewier result. These are also known as rolled or whole oats. Steel-cut oats take even longer to cook and will offer the chewiest texture.
You can use quick-cooking oats but don’t use instant oats because they will just disintegrate and not be so good texture-wise.
There is no comparison between frozen crisps from the grocery store and this wonderful homemade version. The few ingredients needed and very easy prep method make this strawberry peach dessert even more tempting to make.
This is a classic and easy summer dessert with peaches that you will be proud to serve with either cream or ice cream.
If you like this easy summer dessert with peaches, you might also like Effortless Gluten Free Strawberry Crisp, Just Like Starbucks Peach Black Tea Lemonade or Strawberry Season in BC & WA- A Guide to Strawberries.
Strawberry and Peach Crisp Recipe
Flavourful Strawberry and Peach Crisp
Ingredients
- 1 Cup oats
- 1 Cup brown sugar
- 1/2 Cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 Tsp. Cinnamon
- 3/4 Cup unsalted butter cold and cut into cubes
- 2 Cup strawberries sliced, fresh or frozen
- 2 Cup peaches sliced, fresh or frozen
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix together flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, and cooking oats. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or a fork until you have a crumbly mix. Set aside.
- Pour all fruit into pie dish. Sprinkle flour mixture evenly on top of fruit. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until fruit is soft enough to be poked through with a fork and crumble is browned.
- Really great served warm with vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream!
Nutrition
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a professional nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
Leftovers are tasty the following day, either served cold or warmed back up in the oven. Once you know how easy this strawberry and peach crisp is to make, you will want to make it often.
Perhaps you are looking for a fall or winter dessert, in which case you can use any seasonal fruits in the recipe instead of the strawberries and peaches.
Other Recipes to Try
peach and strawberry is my favorite combination. yum!
This looks fabulous!