Deep Dish Peach Crumble Pie
Deep Dish Peach Crumble Pie is the ultimate taste of summer, loaded with sweet/tangy peaches atop a flaky crust and topped with buttery brown sugar crumble.
If you are not interested in making a homemade crust, feel free to use a store-bought crust made for a 2-crust pie. It will be enough to cover the bottom and sides of your 9×13 baking dish.
I adapted this recipe slightly from Melissa Clark, by substituting 2/3 c Cornstarch for the 1/3 c Instant Tapioca, and also I reduced the sugar in the filling just a bit since the peaches I used were so sweet.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 75 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Yield: 15-20 servings 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
Ingredients
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For the Crust
- 2 1/2 c AP Flour
- 3/4 t salt
- 2 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2” pieces
- 4–6 T ice water, as needed (I actually needed 7 T)
For the Filling
- 10–11 good-sized (about 6 lb) peaches, pitted and cut into 1 1/2″ chunks
- 1 c packed light brown sugar
- 2/3 c Cornstarch
- Zest of 3 lemons
- 3 T lemon juice
- 1 1/2 t finely grated nutmeg
- 1 t Natural vanilla extract
- 1 t salt
For the Crumble
- 1 1/2 c AP Flour
- 1 c Packed dark brown sugar
- 2 t ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 t ground ginger
- 1/2 t salt
- 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 c) butter, cubed
Instructions
Prepare the Crust
- In a food processor, pulse the flour with the salt. Add the butter pieces, pulse 6-8 times until the largest butter pieces are the size of peas. Drizzle in the ice water, a tablespoon at a time, just until the dough just begins to come together. For me this took 7 T.
- Empty dough onto a section of plastic wrap. With your hands, squeeze the dough together into a large disk. Cover with the wrap, refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Using a floured surface and floured rolling pin, roll out the refrigerated dough into a rectangle 11″x15″ in size. Wrap it loosely around the rolling pin and transfer it to a 9″x13″ baking pan. This dough should cover the bottom and sides of the baking pan. Feel free to keep the dough rustic looking around the edges, no need to trim or crimp it.
Prepare the Filling
- Preheat oven to 425F. In a very large bowl, mix together the peaches, sugar, cornstarch, lemon zest, lemon juice, nutmeg, vanilla, and salt. Taste to see if you would like to add more sugar. Set aside while preparing the crumble.
- Especially if you have a convection oven, like I do, you may want to heat a large baking sheet in the oven while it preheats. This will ensure the thick bottom crust gets crispy when it bakes. Otherwise you will want to bake the pie on the lowest rack at the beginning of bake time and then move it up to the middle rack part way through.
Prepare the Crumble and Assemble Pie
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Using fingertips, mix in the butter until the mixture comes together and looks like it has clumps of crumble.
- Pour the fruit filling into the crust. Spoon the crumble roughly evenly over the top of the fruit. Place the pie on the preheated baking sheet, in the 425F oven. Bake 15 minutes. Lower oven heat to 375F. If you have a standard-bake oven (not convection), at this point you will want to move the pie with the baking sheet up to the center rack of your oven. If you are using convection, you should be able to bake the whole time on the center rack. Bake an additional 60 minutes until crumble is dark golden brown and filling is bubbly throughout.
- Transfer to a cooling rack and cool pie before slicing.
Nutrition
- Calories: 450
Find it online: https://hummingbirdthyme.com/deep-dish-peach-crumble-pie/
