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I started making crumble topping because my favorite sweet potato casserole (which I've made every year for Thanksgiving for over a decade!) has a streuseled topping. Since then, I've tended to keep extra topping in the freezer, because it makes for super easy fruit crisps and crunchy cakes and cupcakes. In fact, any time I make a recipe that calls for some kind of crispy topping, I usually ignore that part of the recipe and head for my freezer instead.
I'm not a fan of flour in my topping because I feel like it doesn't cook properly and tastes like raw flour - yuck! Instead, I use oats, and I've found that the quick cooking kind is even better than regular rolled oats. I've also never been very good at cutting butter into pastry, so I use my food processor instead. We have a nut-free house because of allergies, but I think walnuts or pecans would be a really nice substitute for some of the oats.
Easiest Crumble Topping
1 heaping cup quick cooking oats
1/2 cup sucanat
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cold butter (1 stick), cut into small pieces
1. In the bowl of a food processor, combine the oats, sucanat and brown sugar. Pulse a few times until ingredients are well-mixed.
2. Scatter the butter over the oat-sugar mixture and pulse several times until the butter is incorporated and the mixture clumps together. Keep cold in the fridge or freezer until ready to use.
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the dry ingredients in the food processor
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the finished crumble
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the crumble topping on an apple cake
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