This easy blueberry crisp has a toasty oat topping and sweet, juicy filling bursting with fresh berries. Consider it the perfect summer dessert.
Ingredients
- 6 cups (3 pints) blueberries
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 0.25 teaspoon coarse salt
- 0.75 cup all-purpose flour
- 0.5 cup rolled oats (or chopped nuts, such as almonds)
- 0.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.5 teaspoon coarse salt
- 3 ounces (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
- 0.333 cup sugar
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven and make filling: Preheat oven to 375°F. Make the filling: Mix blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, and salt in a bowl.
- 2Place filling in baking dish: Transfer to an 8-inch square baking dish.
- 3Make topping: Stir together flour, oats, baking powder, and salt.
- 4Cream butter and sugar: Cream butter and sugar in a mixer until pale and fluffy. You can also use a hand-mixer or, if your butter is soft enough, the mixture can be stirred together by hand.
- 5Add dry ingredients and mix into clumps: Stir dry ingredients into butter. Using your hands, squeeze topping pieces together into clumps.
- 6Sprinkle topping over filling: Sprinkle topping evenly over filling.
- 7Bake, cool, and serve: Bake until bubbling in center and brown on top, about 1 hour. If topping is browning too quickly, tent baking dish with foil. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool for 30 minutes before serving.