Crumble without fruit???

[cookielove]

So at some point today i will be making an apple crumble for dp, all well and good for him, but for me hater of all fruit, i want to make a little crumble for me, so what can i use as a filling instead i'm thinking toffee or does that sound silly?

open to suggestions

I pretty much hate fruit too I just put loads of extra crumble on so I get lots of the topping and give DH the bit with all the fruit in!

Not sure if toffee might be a bit sickly though?

Could you put some custard at the bottom?

You hate all fruit? Really?

Just make a nice oaty crumble topping, roast a little of it and sprinkle it on ice cream.

Toffee crumble won't work.

Make something else for yourself.

man i really thought toffee crumble would be yummy and work well i'm no cook, and really i hate all fruit, for me its the texture makes me gag

I suddenly get a craving for banoffee crumble, which I'm sure doesn't exist, but sounds good.

Nutella crumble?

boak

can't have nutella in this house dp would eat it all before i even saw it, banoffee without the ban is a great idea

Veg crumble. Some nice seasonal veg, bit of tom juice or passatta; cheese, oats, nuts and/or herbs in crumble. Yum.

Cake crumble?
Baked alaska icecream crumble?

I have made in the past a yummy savory crumble with lamb underneath and wesleydale cheese in the crumble.

It's very good, but maybe not what you are hoping for.

How can you hate ALL fruit? It all tastes different you know

Do you not even like strawberries, cookie?

Or a nice cox apple?

Everyone likes a nice cox apple.

We had a lovely afternoon blackberrying and now I am going to go and have some of the resultant apple and blackberry crumble, cold with vanilla ice cream. Oh yum.

Not even raspberries?

no not strawberries and not rasberries, i made dp his apple crumble first ever and he liked it, and i made me crumble which i then sprinkled on custard which was yummy.

On a seperate note a work colleague keeps making me try fruit so the last couple of months i have started eating a teeny tiny bit

I came up with a non fruit crumble today as my LO doesn't like any fruit!
I had some left over chocolate ganache so I put that in the base of a small ramekin, then soaked some dates in water and a pinch of cinnamon for a couple of hours. I blitzed this to a paste. Layered this on top of the chocolate then added the crumble and cooked for 20 mins in 180 degree oven. It was absolutely delicious and worked a treat!

My great-grandmother used to make this:

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017018-shoofly-pie

I suddenly get a craving for banoffee crumble, which I'm sure doesn't exist, but sounds good.

It sure exist and is the best ever crumble (a billion calories of banoffee goodness).

Basically cut banana into chunks, caramelise with some light brown sugar (they go soft and pulpy), make a toffee sauce (equal parts butter and brown sugar melted together, add double cream and a dash of whiskey). Put the banana in your crumble dish, pour over half the toffee sauce, top with crumble and bake. Serve with cream and toffee sauce. You’re welcome.

Youngest ds (29) has never liked fruit of any kind, however he loved 'apple' crumble - I just used to do the juice from stewing the apples under the crumble mix for him, he loved it

I'm resurrecting this thread with the hope that someone might have some non-fruit crumb ideas - another person who doesn't like any fruit here (or dates/raises etc)

My ds won't eat fruit crumbles, so I just put some crumble in a ramekin and bake it at the same time as our fruit crumble and he eats it as it is with evap (I'd chose cream, he can have what he wants).
I'd never thought of toffee! Now wondering about other things.