These bars are simple and easy (which are my requirements for a good recipe) using ingredients you have in your pantry.
I am usually a person who prefers chocolate, but these bars are amazing.
I have always been a sauce lover, and not one to love dry foods. I am the annoying person that asks for extra ranch, with my extra ranch at restaurants.
Nobody should have to eat dry food! That’s exactly how I feel with my dessert as well.
Every dessert needs a filling, glaze, frosting, or at least a scoop of ice cream with it. These Raspberry Crumb Bars are so easy to make and full of amazing flavor.
What other fruit would work with this recipe?
The thing I love about this recipe, is how versatile it is, and how easily you can change the flavor, with just a different fruit filling.
I personally cannot get enough raspberries in my mouth. I eat my raspberries, like I eat my popcorn; by the fistful.
These Raspberry Crumb Bars are so simple and so yummy. But if you don’t like raspberries as much as me, you could easily switch them out. Here is what I recommend:
- Apricots
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Rhubarb
- Peaches
- Pineapple (it would also be yummy with some coconut)
- Banana’s
Really any of these fruits would work well. It’s such a simple recipe, and can be changed to fix your needs, or desires.
You could also mix fruit flavors. You could also double the filling, if you want your middle layer a little thicker.
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Raspberry Crumb Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- dash salt
- dash cinnamon
Fruit Filling
- 4 cup fresh raspberries, (or frozen)
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons cornstarch
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Spray a 9x13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Combine sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, ground cinnamon, shortening, and egg. Dough will be crumbly. Pat half of the dough into the prepared pan.
- Combine the remaining 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch and berries. Spread fruit mixture on top of the dough in the pan. Crumble the remaining dough over the tops of the berries.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes or until the top is slightly brown.
Notes
Nutrition
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I love raspberry. Thanks so much an have a Super Sunday!
Have you ever used raspberry or strawberry jam in the middle? These look amazing!
Yummy those bars look delicious, great recipe 🙂
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These look so delicious! I can’t wait to make this:)
There have been nights when my dinner was tater tots. Not tater tots and … JUST tater tots.
These bars look amazing. Raspberry is my very favorite fruit.
~Cheryl
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They would work just fine and sound delicious!!
Can you freeze them
They should freeze just fine!
Do you think I could use fresh strawberries instead?
Hi Elaine! Strawberries should work fine. Let us know how they turn out!
3 cups flour or 1?? Directions kinda lost me
Recipe calls for 3 cups of flour.
I love to add 1/2-1 tsp of almond extract to the dough when I make raspberry bars. Sometimes I’ll sprinkle a handful of sliced almonds on top.
Hi; do you think apricots might work in this recipe? I have an apricot tree, and I freeze them to use throughout the year; this recipe looks intriguing. And, if it WOULD work, do you think it will taste good?? Thanks so much. (I mean do you think apricots would be a good substitute fruit for this dish lol.)
Hi Vicky! We haven’t made these crumb bars with fresh apricots, but it sounds amazing!
I just tried this dessert for the first time over this past weekend…IT WAS AWESOME!! My whole family absolutely loved it and would even prefer it over raspberry pie 🙂 It is super easy to make and I also added 3/4 cup old fashioned oats to the crumb top before I added it over berries, a great addition!! Thanks again for sharing 🙂
Could you use butter instead of the shortening?
Hi Lourdes, I’m sure you could use butter, but shortening aids in creating flakiness. Flaky, tender, melt-in-your mouth crust. We have only made it with the shortening. Hope this helps! Have a great week!
To help clarify the confusion, here’s how I’d fix the sentence’s;
“Combine 1 cup of the sugar, 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, the dash of salt, the dash of ground cinnamon, 1 cup of shortening, and the one egg in a bowl. Mix all of these ingredients together, the dough will be crumbly when your done mixing.”
I hope this explains things better and clears up the confusion.