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two slices of blackberry pie topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream with forks, stars, and a metal pie server on a purple back drop

Blackberry Crumble Pie

Genevieve Jerome
Blackberry Crumble Pie is the ultimate summer dessert. Made with fresh blackberries, brown sugar, cinnamon, storebought pie crust, and only a few more ingredients. Blackberry Pie Crumble is the summer blackberry pie recipe you'll make all blackberry season-long!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Desserts, Pie recipes
Cuisine American
Servings 6 people
Calories 754 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups fresh blackberries
  • 2 cups fresh blueberries
  • 1 cup cane sugar
  • ½ cup water
  • ¼ cup Arrowroot Powder
  • ¾ cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup light brown sugar or dark brown sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¾ cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces
  • 1 prepared pastry for a single-crust pie

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  • Smash blackberries and blueberries in a bowl until they are mostly liquid, with only a few chunks remaining.
  • Combine white sugar, water, arrowroot powder, and lemon juice in a saucepan. Whisk out lumps and turn the heat to high. Bring to a boil and stir; Add the blackberries and blueberries mixture mix together, and simmer on low heat for five minutes, until the blackberry filling starts to thicken. Set aside.
  • In a stand mixer or large mixing bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, salt, and cinnamon in another bowl. Add butter and mix with your hands until crumbly. (You can use your hands to get that butter well combined. )
  • Spray a glass pie dish with cooking spray and press pie pastry into a pie pan and add blackberry filling; top with crumble.
  • Bake in the preheated oven at 375 degrees until the bottom of the crust is cooked and golden, 50 to 60 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for pie filling to set about 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yummy!

Notes

FAQ For Recipe For Blackberry Crumble
  • You can make blackberry crumble pie with frozen blackberries, but you may need to add more arrowroot powder to thicken the pie filling.
  • If you want to make mixed berry pie crumb topping simply add all kinds of berries, like strawberries, marionberry, blueberries, and raspberries.
What is the difference between a pie a cobbler and a crumble?
The difference between a pie and a cobbler or crumble is that most crisps are made with oats and most crumbles are not made with oats. Crumble: Crumbles are very similar to crisps, but the name originated in England. Both contain fresh fruit and are covered with a streusel topping that gets baked. Crumble toppings, however, usually do not contain oats, whereas crisp toppings do. Cobbler: Cobblers are a fruit dessert baked with biscuit-style topping.
You can totally make homemade pie dough for this berry crumble.
Blackberry crumble cobbler is so easy to make and perfect for summer BBQ's.
Berry Pie Crumble freezes well and can be stored in a glass airtight container Simply reheat in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes and enjoy!
 
 
 
 
 
All images and text © Genevieve Jerome / Fitty Foodlicious 2023 

Nutrition

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 754kcalCarbohydrates: 117gProtein: 6gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 17gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 61mgSodium: 227mgPotassium: 253mgFiber: 6gSugar: 68gVitamin A: 841IUVitamin C: 27mgCalcium: 63mgIron: 3mg
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