Raspberry Crumble Bars! – Jane’s Patisserie

Fruity and scrumptious raspberry crumble bars with an oaty crumble base, raspberry filling, and much more scrumptious crumble on prime!

Say hey to among the most scrumptious bits of heaven you’ll ever eat… these raspberry crumble bars. They’re HEAVENLY and simply so extremely moreish and delicious. 

Traybakes 

So yeah, one other traybake so as to add to my by no means ending roster of bakes that I’m all the time in love with. Truthfully, you probably have adopted me for some time you’ll know {that a} traybake associated bake is one among my favorite issues ever and that’ll by no means change. 

Traybake can are available many a kind, resembling brownies, blondies, cookie bars, flapjacks and so forth. These raspberry crumble bars are a brand new one so as to add to the record of goodness.

All of my traybake recipes, if I may also help it, are made into a 9″ sq. tin. That is for ease, and in order that I cut back the quantity of ins and outs you should purchase! I all the time use this traybake tin. 

Crumble

So everyone knows what a crumble is true? Its probably the most iconic basic issues you possibly can ever eat. I’ve diverse crumble associated bakes on my weblog resembling my apple crumble traybake, and even my apple crumble cupcakes.. however this one? Oh that is on one other league. 

It isn’t fairly ‘crumble’ to the thought of a basic dessert – however its a crumble like oaty scrumptious combination of elements that create the perfect base and topping for these bars. 

• Oats – for this bake, I needed an oaty flavour to return by way of to go with the raspberries and in addition create a extra textured crumble. 
• Flour – an apparent one, however plain flour is a should!
• Sugar – I made a decision to make use of mild brown delicate sugar, however this is able to work nicely with different sugars resembling caster sugar, and even darkish brown delicate sugar. 
• Elevating brokers – this one could sound slightly odd, however belief me – you need the tiny elevate from the baking powder!
• Butter – I exploit unsalted butter as all the time, however a salted butter would work nicely additionally. I’d keep away from any baking spreads of margarines as they’re too delicate for the crumble combination. 

Raspberries

The primary half proper? The raspberries! A scrumptious candy and sharp combination of heaven. I made a decision to not simply add in some raspberries and hope for the perfect, and I didn’t simply wish to do a layer of jam as some recipes do… I needed to stage it up and make a combination! 

• Raspberries – So for ease, I’d advocate recent berries. You want to have the ability to mash them up and frozen would make this too onerous. You’ll be able to attempt thawing frozen berries, however you would want to get rid of any extra liquid earlier than utilizing them. 
• Jam – A raspberry jam – a basic! Seedless, with seed, clean, lumpy… no matter! 
• Lemon – The lemon is required to chop by way of the sharpness of the raspberry but in addition convey out the flavour splendidly. 
• Cornflour – A thickening agent on this case. Please use it, it’s a lot better than simply utilizing plain flour. 

It might sound foolish within the methodology, however actually the easiest way I discovered to make this filling was so as to add the elements to a bowl and mash them barely with a potato masher. It meant I nonetheless had texture, however every part had combined in nicely sufficient. 

Meeting

As you possibly can see from the photographs there are layers to those raspberry crumble bars. It’s pretty merely although – a majority of the crumble combine goes into the lined 9×9″ sq. tin and also you press it down firmly. I discovered 500g of the crumble combine was excellent for this layer after some experimenting with ratios. 

Then, you prime the bottom with the mashed raspberry combine and unfold evenly, after which sprinkle over the remainder of the crumble combine. This a part of the crumble combine doesn’t want urgent down as it might flip right into a raspberry mush. 

Baking

For a bake like this, and mainly any bake ever until acknowledged in any other case, you want a preheated oven. I’ve a fan oven so I bake at 180ºc on the fan setting, however you probably have a daily oven it might be 200ºc. That is additionally so far as I’m conscious gasoline mark 6, or 400ºf if that helps – though I’ve by no means baked in a gasoline oven. 

The temperature is barely greater in comparison with different traybake recipes I’ve accomplished, however you need the additional heat to essentially begin toasting and baking the crumble combine and it actually helps. 

The combination will be barely delicate, so make sure that the crumble combination is popping splendidly golden and delightful earlier than taking out of the oven. 

Suggestions and Tips 

So in the case of making a bake like this, it’s surprisingly simple, however there are methods to assist make sure that it really works splendidly. When making the crumble combine I merely use a big bowl, add the elements, and rub them along with my fingertips. This implies you possibly can nonetheless have the great texture of the oats within the crumble with out by accident destroying them in a meals processor or mixer.

For the raspberry combine, I genuinely simply use one other bowl and a potato masher – however a big spoon or fork works nicely, it simply takes a bit longer. You don’t wish to over combine this both as you need texture to the combination. 

As talked about above, I exploit this traybake tin as its the proper dimension. 

Crumble

• 175 g rolled oats
• 200 g plain flour
• 150 g mild brown delicate sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 175 g unsalted butter (chilly and cubed)

Filling

• 400 g raspberries
• 150 g raspberry jam
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp cornflour

Crumble

• Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºfan and line a 9×9″ sq. tin with parchment paper.

• In a big bowl, add the rolled oats, plain flour, mild brown delicate sugar, baking powder and unsalted butter.

• Rub the elements collectively along with your fingers till the combination resembles bread crumbs and there are not any massive lumps of butter left.

Filling

• In a brand new bowl, add the recent raspberries, raspberry jam, lemon juice and cornflour.

• Mash the elements collectively till they’re mixed, however nonetheless leaving some texture to the raspberries.

Meeting

• Pour 500g of the oaty crumble combine into the lined tin and press down firmly.

• Pour the filling onto of the oats, and unfold.

• Sprinkle over the remainder of the crumble combine

• Bake the raspberry crumble bars within the oven for 30+ minutes, or till golden and delightful.

• Depart the bars to chill absolutely earlier than portioning. Refrigerating them can generally make this simpler.

• These beauties will final for 3+ days, finest within the fridge
• I exploit this tin for this bake 
• The raspberries will be swapped to different berries resembling blackberries, blueberries, strawberries and so forth, or a combination of. 

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