These Blueberry Apple Crumb Bars come from my 1st cookbook, the Vanilla Bean Baking Book. I’m excited to share the recipe with you! They’re a great way to use fresh blueberries, and are especially great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
You can find a few of my recipes from the book around the web. Julie from Always with Butter made my chocolate chip cookies. Molly from My Name is Yeh made my yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Michelle from Hummingbird High made my cheesecake, and Cynthia from Two Red Bowls made my cheesecake with a hazelnut twist. Alex and Sonja from A Couple Cooks made my shortbread with chocolate.
Food 52 made my oatmeal white chocolate cookies. Sara from Sprouted Kitchen made my whole wheat banana chocolate muffins. Cindy from Hungry Girl Por Vida made my honey cake and added grapefruit. Elizabeth from Brooklyn Supper made my orange cranberry bundt cake. Alana from Fix Feast Flair made my brown butter buttercream. Alanna from Bojon Gourmet made my peanut butter granola.
Thank you again for all your support. It’s been so fun to see what everyone is making from the book on Instagram, and I appreciate all your kind words and reviews. If you make something from the book, please tag it #vanillabeanbakingbook so I can find it!
Easy Blueberry Crumble Bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (355g)
- 1/2 cup rolled or quick oats (45g)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (198g)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 pound 2 sticks; unsalted butter, at room temperature, and sliced into 1-inch pieces (227g)
Blueberry Filling
- 5 heaping cups blueberries (700g)
- 1/2 cup grated Gala apple (about one small apple) (75g)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar (66g)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- Pinch salt
Instructions
- Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan and line it with parchment sling.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, mix the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon on low to combine. Add the butter and mix on medium until the mixture resembles coarse sand.
- Press half the flour-oat mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake 10 minutes. Prepare the berry filling while the crust is baking (see below). Remove the pan from the oven, spread the berry mixture over the crust, and sprinkle the remaining crumble mixture evenly over the top. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until the crumbly top is light golden brown.
- Transfer to a wire rack and let cool. Place the pan in the fridge and let chill 4 to 6 hours. Slice bars and serve. The crumble bars can be served cold or at room temperature, but keep best in the fridge.
- For the blueberry filling
- In a large bowl, mix the blueberries, apple, and lemon juice. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cornstarch, and salt. pour the sugar mixture over the berries and stir gently with a spatula to evenly combine.
24 Comments
Kweli
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 11:38 pmmade this recipe yesterday and it is a huge hit!!! will be making these again!! Thank you!!!
Myra
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8:32 pmLoved it taste like shortbread so good!! love the blueberries it was a hit layers we great.
Jasmine Seiler
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 1:10 pmHello. I also noticed in my book that the crumble directions say to combine “sugars” implying that there may be more than one kind. I confirmed here that there is in fact only one, but may be worth a mention…
Khrystyna Petruk
Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:19 amVery excited to try this today.. Thanks for sharing it!
Elly
Monday, January 14, 2019 at 8:58 pmHi! I googled recipe correction for this recipe bc I also noticed the cinnamon in the berry filling but the other tho g I was curious about was the sugar in the crust. The directions say combine “sugars” plural, but ingredients list only lists one sugar. Is there supposed to be brown sugar also? My crumble was really…crumbly. Didn’t come out like bars bc the crumble was too dry. I measured by weight so I didn’t think it was too much flour but not sure what else I could have done! Any suggestions??
Lena
Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 5:21 amMy kids are going to love these but to be honest I’m really the one who will probably eat the most. They look delicious. Such great flavors. Thanks for sharing the recipe here.
Sue
Monday, October 16, 2017 at 4:53 pmI purchased your book last week and the first recipe I tried was on page 253 – Shortbread with Chocolate. They were delicious however I only got 13 cookies using a 2″ cookie cutter, not the 30-35 cookies noted. I had to roll the dough less than the recommended 1/2″ thickness in order to get 13. I’m wondering if I did something wrong or if the 30-35 cookie quantity is perhaps a misprint. Excited to have found your blog and book!
Thank you
Lynda
Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 2:32 pmLooks like a great recipe, can’t wait to try it, thanks!
Melissa
Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 11:20 pmI just love fruit bars! These look amazing! I wish I could have one right now! Put a crumb topping on anything and I’m happy. Can’t wait to try 🙂
Jennifer Wise
Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 7:24 amHi Sarah ,
First time visitor here. But I already fell in love with what you have here!
Thank you for sharing this easy recipe. It is so delicious. I love apple recipe. This will definitely be on my to-try list in the near future. Thanks for sharing it with us ?
Jennifer
Claire
Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:52 amOh my, those look DELICIOUS!
lynn
Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:41 pmThanks for this recipe – I can’t wait to make it!
Lisa | Garlic & Zest
Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 9:16 amHi Sarah! I’ve been pouring over your book for the last few weeks – I tend to read cookbooks like novels — and just this week I made those chocolate chip cookies. I’ll be featuring them tomorrow on my blog and wanted to thank you for sharing your technique — which is very cool and works like a charm. Also, in a strange twist, when I read this post the Winona, Minnesota and Cooks of Crocus Hill jumped out at me. My husband is originally from St. Paul, born in Winona. I’ve transplanted him to the more tropical climes of South Florida, but I think he misses “home” sometimes. When we were dating, he’d take me to the Cooks of Crocus Hill and Penzeys — not to mention the fabulous farmer’s markets in the summers. Those mentions sparked a lot of memories for me.
Edwina | Appliances
Monday, January 30, 2017 at 5:25 amThese do look delicious. I wish I had these bars in front of me right now!
Sabrina B
Friday, January 20, 2017 at 8:46 amlove the idea of the the crumble crust for these, but especially the blueberry apply combo, thank you for this recipe!
Sabrina
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 7:01 pmHi Sarah! I just received your cookbook from my cousin, Kelly Vlach. Your book is beautiful and inspiring! I’m very much looking forward to making these recipes.
Sarah
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 7:44 pmHi Sabrina! Sorry for the late reply. Let me know if you have any questions!! And tell Kelly hi. 🙂
Abby | Lace & Lilacs
Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 1:08 pmOh, these bars look incredible, Sarah. I wish I could attend your book signing! <3 (maybe come do one in paris…?)
Kelly
Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 9:46 amAre frozen berries OK to use? Thank you!
Julie
Monday, February 19, 2018 at 4:16 pmYes- is frozen ok? I have a big Costco sized bag of blueberries on hand as well as the apples.
Tori//Gringalicious.com
Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 4:18 amThese bars look absolutely irresistible!!!! I could eat a whole plate!
Cindy
Friday, January 13, 2017 at 6:44 pmI recently made the easy Danish dough and the Apricot Danish from the #vanilla bean baking book. Both recipes and directions were accurate and easy to follow, my family loved the pastries. The spirals wanted to uncurl during the bake time, how do I prevent that from happening?
Kari
Friday, January 13, 2017 at 4:43 pmYum! I love a good crumble topping!
Kari
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Abby @ Heart of a Baker
Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:01 amOhh well now I need to make these for sure, every recipe has been a gem so far! xo