This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie selection is Tropical Crumble. This is one of those delightful always/never in-season recipes, since the fruit (bananas, mangoes, and in my case pineapple) does not grow around here. The selection totally makes sense since it is winter where this week’s hostess lives! Once again, I made mine at the last minute, which I blame on Josh this week because he bought a sampling of delicious cupcakes from Kara’s Cupcakes for us to enjoy over the weekend and we didn’t need extra dessert.
Fortunately, this recipe comes together really quickly, and I didn’t experience some of the problems (runny fruit, over-buttery topping) some other bakers had. I halved the recipe, but for the crumble topping, I left the entire amount of flour, which I think gave it just the right amount of butteriness - I mean, you don’t really want to see a big pool of oil on the top of your dessert. Josh was wondering why this recipe hadn’t been selected yet and I think maybe it has to do with the fact there are cooked bananas in it, which seems a bit odd. Intriguing, but odd.
The preparation and combination of flavors made for an excellent dessert. I generally think fruit desserts are best warm with ice cream - and this one certainly is great that way - but Dorie suggests serving leftovers cold, so I sampled it that way when I was photographing it this evening and thought it was wonderful that way too. We rated this recipe an 8 for Deliciousness and I gave it a 3 for Effort, for an EDR of 2.66. Many thanks to Gaye of Laws of the Kitchen for hosting this week. You can find the recipe here on Gaye’s terrific site and visit the TWD site to see how the other bakers fared.
5 comments:
Your crisp looks great! Good idea to use more flour in the topping. I think that fruit juice made mine soggy - more flour would have probably helped.
yes, ice cream is a must! glad you enjoyed.
I decided that the next time I make this recipe I'll halve the butter, which is pretty much what you did, only in reverse with the flour. Looks like the way to go. The pools of butter were pretty gross.
I love your little mini serving. You're the first person to have me wishing I hadn't sat out this week! It seems everyone else ran into issues, but yours looks just perfect and it sounds like it was tasty too.
What a cute little dish. This is just how I pictured this crumble - if I had actually followed directions! beautiful.
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