Easy Healthy Peach Crisp (2024)

FAQs

What is the difference between peach crisp and peach cobbler? ›

Cobbler: A fruit dessert made with a top crust of pie dough or biscuit dough but no bottom crust. Crisp/crumble: In Alberta, the terms are mostly interchangeable. Both refer to fruit desserts similar to cobbler but made with a brown sugar streusel topping sometimes containing old-fashioned rolled oats.

If your crisp is too soggy, it's likely because there was too much liquid in the fruit or because you didn't let it cool long enough. If your peaches are extra sweet, you might need to add more cornstarch or use fewer peaches.

When to Use Canned Peaches. If peaches aren't in season and you don't have any frozen peaches on hand, you can use canned peaches for most baked recipes. Keep in mind that canned peaches are cooked (even if they're raw packed), so they'll be softer and more tender compared to the texture of a fresh or frozen peach.

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Exterior: Cobblers are denser due to the biscuit dough topping and base, while crisps use oats and a streusel topping, making them lighter. Cobbler toppings are also likely not a full layer like a crisp or pie. Instead, the biscuit dough dollops often sit on top as individual biscuits.

First, adding a teaspoon of baking powder to the flour mixture makes the crumble topping more tender. Second, using cold butter and working it into the flour mixture makes for a pastry-like topping reminiscent of pie crust. Pro tip: Crumble topping freezes incredibly well and can be kept on hand for crumble anytime.

If you use more butter than the recipe calls for, the crumb topping will be melted and greasy. If you don't use enough butter it will be dry and floury.

Peaches are low in calories (100 g just provide 39 calories), and contain no saturated fats. Nonetheless, they are packed with numerous health promoting compounds, minerals, and vitamins.

Are canned Peaches low calorie? ›

Canned peaches in fruit juice have 50 calories in a 1/2-cup serving. Canned peaches in syrup have 100 calories in a 1/2-cup serving -twice the calories found in a 1/2-cup serving of canned peaches in fruit juice. This is an important difference when trying to lose weight or to maintain a healthy weight.

Drink it straight.

The nutritional information on a label of canned fruit takes the juice into account, so drinking the juice after you polish off the fruit will ensure that you get the full benefit of the canned fruit.

Here are the best canned peaches to buy—trust me. Kroger's organic store brand, Simple Truth, makes the best no sugar canned peaches. Okay, so they're not totally sugar free (there's 11g of sugar in a serving), but there's no added sugar and there's also no fake sugar.

So what's a crumble vs. a crisp? A crumble is just a crisp without oats in the streusel. It may feature nuts, but the streusel topping is usually a simple combination of butter, flour, and sugar that is more clumpy than that of a crisp.

Cobbler is usually topped with batter or biscuits in lieu of crust. Cobbler's name comes from its sometimes cobbled texture, which is a result of spooning or dropping the topping over the fruit rather than distributing it equally. This way, the filling can peek through.

In a cobbler, the topping is a dough with a rising agent like baking powder that bakes up into a slightly sweet, biscuit-like topping. In crisp, the topping is made with flour, sugar, butter, oats and sometimes nuts without a leavening agent. The topping is sprinkled over the fruit before baking.

In the case of peach cobbler, fresh, frozen, or canned peaches may be combined with sugar, spices, lemon juice, and cornstarch (for thickening). As with all cobblers, it's finished off with a biscuit-like topping and sprinkled with a cinnamon-sugar mixture.