Peach, Blackberry and Blueberry Graham Cracker Crumble

Now that I’ve been knuckle deep in peaches, blueberries, blackberries and copious amounts of crumble topping, summer has officially begun.

For me, I can’t officially kick start summer without some sort of inaugural pie, crumble or other festive equivalent. Kevin is partial to a classic pie with flaky, buttery crust, and while I of course agree whole-heartedly that a traditional pie is also one of the ways to my summer loving heart, a crumble really sends my emotions into a tizzy.

Plump juice berries and peaches coated in a sticky, sweet (natural) syrup and topped with a crispy buttery topping – is there anything better in life?

This Peach, Blueberry and Blackberry Graham Cracker Crumble is so good it literally gave me heart palpitations the moment the fork touched my taste buds, although it could have also been a little coincidental heartbeat skip, either way MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT. No lie.

I wish I could take credit for the genius idea of replacing flour for graham crackers crumbs in the crumble portion of this dessert, but alas, the genius culinary minds behind Bon Apetit beat me to the punch. As I was quickly perusing through their latest magazine, (because I immediately have to tear it open the minute it arrives even if I haven’t got the slightest amount of time to read it cover to cover) I was immediately drawn to an assuming crumble, at first glance it looked like your ordinary crumble, but upon further investigation of the recipe I noticed that they had swapped out graham crackers for white flour.

Here’s what happened in the next five minutes: I put my magazine down, grabbed my keys, jumped in the car, bought a box of graham crackers, headed back home, pulled out the peaches, blueberries and blackberries I scored the previous day in a major salt and started my crumble.

I was sure that this was going to be my new favorite way to bake a crumble….and it was.

While the taste of the graham cracker crumbs is subtle, it’s absolutely there and gives the topping a unique, irresistible taste.

Of course you can’t go wrong with the combination of peaches and berries, so I won’t even delve into that. All you need to know is this needs to be in your oven five minutes ago.

Happy weekend!