Cherry and Peach Crisp with Oat Crumble (Frozen Fruit)

You'll make this healthy peach cherry crisp with frozen fruit which makes it SO EASY to make. Cherries, peaches, rolled oats and a few other simple ingredients all bake up together for a dessert that's sure to WOW or be the best breakfast fruit crumble on the block. This is simply THE BEST gluten-free cherry peach crisp!

No matter what time of year, fruit is always in our house🍌🍓🍇🍊🥭🍒

Bags of fruit are always in our freezer. And that's what's so great about this cherry peach crisp recipe - it's made with frozen fruit.

And those bags of frozen peaches and frozen cherries have a very important job to do: become the most delicious and gluten-free crisp EVER.

📝Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make this healthy breakfast crisp with frozen fruit:

• Frozen cherries - my favourite are the bing cherries! Big, heart-shaped and sweet with a touch of acidity. A perfectly balanced cherry🍒
• Frozen peaches
• Gluten-free flour
• Cinnamon
• Lemon - this will give a shot of acidity to the sweet fruit for balance

For the oatmeal and brown sugar crisp topping, all you'll need are these ingredients:

• Butter
• Gluten-free rolled oats (not quick cooking)
• Brown sugar
• Salt

See recipe card for quantities.

🔪Instructions

Ok guys, it doesn't get much easier than making a simple recipe like this peach cherry crumble.

You could make it right before you serve supper and then pop it into the oven to bake while you and the fam eat.

It's a delicious, sweet, warm and healthy dessert you can all dig into afterwards.

Here's the high level steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F
• Toss cherries and peaches in flour, cinnamon and lemon juice
• Place fruit mixture into a rectangular baking dish (8 x 11 inches)
• Bake at 375 for 10 mins. (If using fresh fruit, you can skip this step)
• While the fruit mixture bakes, in a large bowl add cubed butter, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt
• Using 2 knifes "cut" through the mixture, combining the ingredients together
• Take the fruit out of the oven and add the oat crisp topping overtop all of the fruit.
• Bake for another 20 minutes in the oven or until the crisp is hot throughout
• Serve warm

See recipe card below for more tips and instructions.

🍑Can you use frozen peaches in a peach crisp?

Definitely! To use frozen peaches for peach crisp, all you have to do differently than if you used fresh peaches is give the frozen fruit a little more time in the oven.

In this recipe, after you get the frozen cherries and frozen peaches tossed in a little flour, cinnamon and fresh lemon juice, you'll bake them in the oven.

So without the oatmeal crisp topping, you bake the fruit for about 10-15 minutes at 350F until it softens up and juices start to flow.

Basically, you're thawing the frozen fruit in the oven and giving it a head start for the overall baking of the crisp!

Once you add the brown sugar, cinnamon and oat topping on top, you'll bake for another 20 minutes in the oven until the fruit is bubbly and the oatmeal brown sugar topping is golden.

🍑More Recipes with Peaches

Have boatloads of peaches - fresh or frozen - to use up? Check out this recipe for Cast Iron Skillet Peach Cobbler!😋

🙋‍♀️What makes this peach and cherry crisp healthy?

The main ingredients in this crisp bring their own nutritional-punch to the table.

Peaches - whether they're fresh or frozen, peaches are packed with vitamin C, antioxidants to fight inflammation and fibre to fill you up.

Cherries - the cherries in this healthy crisp not only pack a delicious sweet taste, but they're also brimming with anthocyanins, a type of antioxidants that can help fight conditions like fibromyalgia. Anthocyanins are what makes the colors red, purple, and blue in fruits and vegetables - neat huh?

Oats - we've all heard oatmeal is good for us but did you know that oats also contain beta glucan, a special type of fibre being studied to help in all sorts of conditions like obesity, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure? Sweet😎

And because I've developed this recipe to have less butter and less sugar than other more traditional peach crisps out there, you're getting more nutrition and more deliciousness for fewer calories #winning🏅

Hope you love this crisp like we do!

~April

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