Easy Peach Crisp
One of the simplest sweet treats you can make with either fresh or frozen peaches is our Easy Peach Crisp! This easier-than-pie dessert highlights that beautiful peach flavor and is topped with a buttery oat crumb topping that just begs for a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.
Next, try our Easy Cast Iron Apple Crisp!
We have one last summer dessert for you before we shift into full fall mode! Thanks to our recent haul of end-of-the-season peaches from one of our favorite U-Picks here in the PNW, Mt. View Orchards, we have loads of gorgeous peaches that are perfect for our latest and greatest easy peasy dessert, our Easy Peach Crisp! We love a dessert that’s as delicious as pie but much less work, and this peach-packed and oat crumble-topped baked treat is just that!
Ingredients Needed
- Peaches – You can use yellow or white peaches for this crisp peach; while we prefer fresh, it’s also delicious with frozen.
- Oats and Flour – For the delicious crumbly crisp topping!
- Butter – To create the butter crumble topping and also just a touch to grease the skillet.
- Maple Syrup and Brown Sugar – To highlight and complement the fresh peach sweetness and for the sweet buttery topping.
- Spices – We love how cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg all complement the peach flavor!
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Cast Iron Skillet – Not required, but we just love any excuse to serve something beautiful in our cast iron, especially desserts. You can also of course use a baking dish, too.
Mixing Bowls – We love these glass mixing bowls and use them for everything!
Vegetable/Fruit Peeler – If you would like to peel your peaches first, which is totally optional. Best used for slightly underripe peaches as super ripe peaches will often easily peel on their own.
Pastry Cutter – To cut the butter into the flour and sugar for that crumble topping.
Easy to Make
One of the best things about an Easy Peach Crisp like this is just how easy it is to make! So much less work than making a peach pie, but oh so delicious. Plus there’s no rolling, chilling, or waiting. You just assemble and bake and you can have this dessert on the table in under an hour!
First, we make our crumble oat topping by cutting in the butter with the flour and the sugar and then folding the oats in.
Next, it’s time to prep those peaches by giving them a quick slice before mixing them with the spices, lemon juice, and maple syrup.
Peeled or unpeeled, that’s up to you! We have made this with both peeled and unpeeled peaches and it’s just as delicious. When peaches are super ripe they’re really easy to peel, so that’s usually when we peel them since the skin just pulls right off. When they’re a bit more underripe, that’s when we usually leave them on.
Next, it’s a melt of the butter in your cast iron skillet (or if you choose to use a baking dish, no problem! See recipe notes) then the addition of the peaches. Finish with that buttery oat crumble and pop it in the oven to bake.
And done! Easy Peach Crisp that’s easier than pie!
Be sure to serve it with your favorite vanilla ice cream!
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A plate of sweet peach crunchy crumble goodness! It’s truly one of our new favorite summer desserts that we’ll be using our frozen peaches to make in the winter!
Recipe Tips
When it comes to how ripe the peaches should be for this Easy Peach Crisp, the best is for them to be just underripe. That’s because then they will hold their texture a bit more after being baked. With that said, if you have really ripe peaches that are ready to be used, this will still be delicious. But also, these really ripe ones are great to peel and pop in the freezer for our 4 Ingredient Peach Sorbet, too!
This one is totally up to you. We’ve made and enjoyed it with both. If using slightly underripe peaches then you could use a vegetable peeler to gently peel the skins off, or just keep the skins on and slice and go. For more ripe peaches when the skins just easily peel off, that’s when I peel since they’re so easily peeled. But in general, we go with whatever’s the easiest depending on the peaches, it doesn’t affect the final product.
This is a great recipe for them to get that summer vibe in the dead of winter! While fresh is best, you can totally use unsweetened frozen peaches. Let them thaw, give them a little blot of the excess moisture, and then use them in place of fresh. Depending on the size of the peaches, you may want to chop or slice them smaller.
We don’t recommend using canned peaches for this crisp. They’re too soft and mushy to hold up in this recipe.
You can easily make this recipe gluten-free by ensuring that your oats are gluten-free and also swapping out the all-purpose flour for a 1:1 gluten-free flour.
Enjoy! As always, if you make this recipe or any of my others, I love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below, email me, or you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
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Easy Peach Crisp
Equipment
- or 9×9 baking dish
- vegetable peeler optional
Ingredients
Filling
- 6 peaches about 6 cups sliced
- 2 tablespoons salted butter
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar packed, 32 g
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Topping
- 1 cup old fashioned oats about 110 g
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour 74 g
- 5 tablespoons salted butter cold and cubed
- 1/4 cup brown sugar packed, 63 g
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Create Topping: Add brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and flour to a large bowl, add cold cubed butter and use a pastry cutter to cut in butter until a crumbly topping is formed. Fold in oats.
- Prep Peaches: Pit and slice peaches – peeled or unpeeled. Add lemon juice, maple syrup, almond extract, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and gently mix.
- Create Filling: Add 2 tablespoons of butter to the cast iron skillet and heat over medium to melt butter. Turn off the heat, add the peaches. Do not mix, let the butter coat the bottom of the pan.
- Add Topping: Sprinkle the crumble topping over the peaches in an even layer covering all of the peaches.
- Bake: Add cast iron to the middle rack of the oven and bake for 45 minutes until the topping is golden.
- Serve and Enjoy with your favorite vanilla ice cream!
Delicious recipe. The almond extract it’s a nice touch of flavor.
So glad you enjoyed it, Juyali! Thanks for sharing!