Fresh fruit crisps can match fruit pies fork to fork in terms of flavor--and they win the race from mixing bowl to oven to table. From blueberry buckle to apple crisp to peach cobbler, these humble desserts are made with sweetened fruit topped with a biscuit dough, pastry crust, or crumbly streusel.
A crisp, a crumble, or a crunch
These desserts are the simplest of all: fruit is covered with a streusel topping and baked until the crust is crispy and the filling bubbles and thickens.
Cobblers
Cobblers can be topped with a sticky drop biscuit dough (which looks like stone cobbles on an old street) or a lattice of pastry.
Brown Betties
Apple brown betty is one of the first documented apple desserts in the United States. Popular during Colonial times, it's still a nostalgic favorite. The fruit is layered with a mixture of fresh breadcrumbs, butter and brown sugar, and the concoction is baked until the apples are tender and the crumb topping gets crispy.
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