Every Helping
Sign in

Baking recipe · from the recipe book

Spiced Pear Crumble with Oat Topping

Tender, juicy pears warmed with ginger and cinnamon sit under a buttery, crisp brown-sugar oat crumble.

Spiced Pear Crumble with Oat Topping

Ingredients

  • 6 medium1,100 gPearspeeled and cut into 3/4-inch chunks
  • 1 tbsp15 gLemon juice
  • 2 tbsp40 gMaple syrup
  • 1½ tbsp12 gCornstarch
  • 1¾ tsp3 gGround ginger
  • 1⅛ tsp3 gGround cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp0.5 gGround nutmeg
  • 1 cup90 gOld-fashioned rolled oats
  • ½ cup70 gAll-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup packed75 gBrown sugarpacked
  • ⅓ cup chopped40 gPecanschopped
  • ¼ tsp1.5 gSalt
  • ⅓ cup85 gUnsalted buttercold, cubed

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and butter an 8x8-inch baking dish.
  2. Toss the pear with the lemon juice, maple syrup, cornstarch, half the ginger, half the cinnamon and the nutmeg, then spread it in the dish.
  3. In a bowl, mix the oats, flour, brown sugar, pecans, salt and the rest of the ginger and cinnamon.
  4. Rub the butter into the oat mixture with your fingertips until it forms clumps, then scatter it evenly over the pears.
  5. Bake 40 to 45 minutes, until the topping is deep golden and the fruit bubbles thickly at the edges.
  6. Cool on a rack for 20 minutes so the juices set, then cut into 8 portions and serve warm.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Milk, Tree nuts, Gluten.

Cook mode Log it in Today

Made it

Made it? Share how yours turned out.

Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 19, 2026.

Want one that fits your numbers?

Pick the meal, the pan and your targets, and the Every Helping recipe generator writes a recipe with every number worked out. Free on the web.

Make a recipeMore from the recipe book