Peach Pineapple Crumble
August 10, 2011 § 36 Comments
Sometimes I feel like every little girl’s dream is to be a babysitter. When I was 10 years old I dreamed of the day when I would be a teenager. I pictured myself as the perfect babysitter. I’d play hide-and-seek, and play games, and bake cookies. I’d be responsible yet fun and be the babysitter that all the parents wanted to babysit their children. My 10-year old self had quite an imagination.
When I turned 13 my friend, Elise, and I attended a 2 day Safe Sitter training class and became certified babysitters. We felt so grown-up and immediately started advertising. After a few weeks we both started getting phone calls from inquiring parents and later started getting babysitting jobs. At first we loved it and had lots of fun. But then the novelty wore off.
A few days ago Elise and I were talking about how, two years later, our view of babysitting drastically changed. We’ve realized that it isn’t all fun and games and that we would rather spend our free time shopping or going to the movies. That being said, we still babysit for a select few families but we’ve discovered another way to make money: dog-sitting!
One of the select few families I will still babysit for are my cousins. Last week I babysat my little cousins Mikey and Matthew. We played hide-and-seek, went for walks, and made a homemade crumble with fresh peaches and juicy pineapple! After all, my little cousins have been helping me bake for so long that chocolate chip cookies are too easy for them.
Peach Pineapple Crumble
“This crumble is delicious, healthy, and super easy to make. The peach and pineapple flavors combine beautifully, but you should also feel free to experiment with other combinations of fruits. Serve with a dollop of whipped topping or a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Enjoy!”
Ingredients:
- 4-5 medium ripe peaches
- 1 cup pineapple, diced
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3 teaspoons cornstarch
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed
- 1 ¼ cups old-fashioned oatmeal
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Toss diced fruit together in an 8-inch square baking dish. In a small dish, whisk together 3 tablespoons sugar, cornstarch, and ¼ cup of flour. Toss the mixture with the diced fruit. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar. Add the cold butter cubes. Use your fingers to break up the cold butter cubes into the flour mixture. Add the oatmeal and toss together.
- Pour the oatmeal mixture over the prepared fruit. Place in the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until juices from the fruit bubble up around the sides of the pan.
- Remove the crumble from the oven and allow to cool for at least 15 minutes before serving.
Yield: 6-8 servings
So tell me: Were you a babysitting queen as teenager or a wannabee like me? Any crazy babysitting stories? 
OHHH LOV EIT!! my mom would die for this!
What a delish sounding combination!
It’s beautiful! I think that you sound like a great babysitter! I liked babysitting when I was younger. But when I was 14 I went with a family on vacation for 10 days as a mother’s helper. Longest 10 days OF MY LIFE!!! I was so bored and tired by the end of it.
10 days sounds like forever! Sometimes I get tired of babysitting after 5 hours.
How fantastic! My mum used to make crumbles all the time put it was always a variation on apple, with apple and rhubarb, apple and boysenberry, apple and apple…
But pineapple? INGENIOUS.
Crumbles/cobblers have to be up there in my top 3 favorite desserts. Loving this!
Yum! I wish I could find a babysitting job.
Aww that was such a cute story to read about you and your friend wanting to baby sit.. I was the same!
Yup, I think pretty much all little girls are like that. I took a class and got certified too! I thought I would like it, and tried to convince myself for YEARS that I really did, but I really really didn’t and still don’t, ha ha. I actually don’t think I’m even going to have children, and babysitting definitely played a role in that (so far) decision.
As for a story… One time I fell down a flight of stairs holding an infant – Pretty much the scariest thing EVER. I can remember thinking in mid-air that my aunt was going to murder me if this didn’t turn out okay. Luckily I knew enough to protect the baby instead of myself and ended up with plenty of bruises, but only a mildly shaken up baby. Another time, I was cooking dinner for the same child three years later and turned around to find him shoving the batteries from the remote in his mouth. He was perfectly fine, but I’m pretty sure I was the worst babysitter ever…
Oh my goodness! Thankfully, I don’t have many scary babysitting stories, but yours about falling down the stairs made me nervous just reading it! Glad everything turned out OK!
This sounds fabulous! I love that you added pineapple!!!
I would never think to combine peach and pineapple, but now that I think about it, it sounds really good!
I was never a big babysitter. I’ve only babysat for two families. I’m happy with that because I’m not a huge fan of it.
love it!!! it looks delicious!!!
i used to babysit a lot more often (a few summers ago i did it every day for a month in the summer!) but now, not so much.
Ohh yum I NEED this in front of me right now.
Whitney
ooh….gimme gimme! this looks amazing. i love how your recipes are always so AMAZING yet simple!
i used to do a TON of babysitting, but now my babysitting jobs are far and few. when i first would get babysitting jobs i would bring a bag full of coloring books and toys for the kids. haha, i don’t do that anymore.
ohhhmannn you read my mind!! I’ve been really wanting some kind of PEACH crumble or cobbler lately! haha. Great photos btw!~~I wasn’t particularly a babysitter, but now I help with my nephew and take him out to take a walk or in the stroller quite often.
Looks so delightful! Oh I wish I could really appreciate food like all you bloggers…I do and I eat so well – but then way too much chocolate and cookies at night
Alas – thank you for your incredibly kind comment on my blog. So touching just to say something simple.
Peach AND pineapple? Now that’s a girls dream
Oh. MY. GOSH. Peach, crumble, Pinapple…*swwoooon*. This is amazing….freakin’ amazing girl
This sounds so delicious! I’ve got to say, you’re one very talented teenager.
Awww, thanks Caroline! You are very talented too. That goat cheese appetizer you posted on your blog looked divine.
My youngest siblings are 10 and 13 years younger than me, so yes I babysat. I didn’t get paid. You’re onto something with dog sitting. Do you know how hard it is to find good dog help! Once again, the dish looks amazing too.
I really love crumbles and think the combo of peach & pineapple must be divine!
That looks really good.How do you take such good looking pictures and mine and bad.I mean I’m not taking classes for it, they just look so professional.
Thank you, Jessie! I don’t take classes either, nor do I own a fancy schmancy DSLR camera. (Although, I hope to own one one day!) I just practice, practice, practice! And I never use flash – only natural light if I can help it! Hope that helps!
I’ve got to make this for my dad! Peach cobbler is his fave desert so I know he’ll love this!!
I love crumbles…yum!
Yum! This looks divine and I love the combination of peach and pineapple
I can’t wait to try it!
I think my almost-too-ripe-for-eating peaches have found a new home
What an awesome combo. So summery! I love crumbles…especially the top part!
Reading the Babysitter Club series (yes, every single book) got me beyond excited for my own babysitting adventures (aka eating pizza with the kids, putting them to bed, then watching TV and falling asleep on the couch). Thrilling, right?
I need a recipe to bring to a BBQ on Saturday, and I think this might be a winner!
I totally agree about babysitting! I work at a daycare, so I’m essentially a professional babysitter. Let me tell you, getting paid minimum wage to watch up to 40 kids at a time is hard work! It can be fun, but it is exhausting!!
I am a babysitting NUTJOB! Between my sister and I, some days we will have up to 6 kids from 4 different families. We joke that we need to open a camp— and it really is tought at times. But can’t complain because the money is awesome. But the $$$ from dogsitting and housesitting is even better– check more into that!
That looks incredible. Too bad I don’t need someone to babysit me!!
I never wanted to babysit for money; I have to do it (for free) for my parents anyways, although technically, my littler brother is only a year younger. Beautiful crumble; I like the oatmeal.
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