Sweet and luscious fresh peaches cooked together with melt in your mouth buttery pastry “crumble”, what more could a girl want eh? Well plenty if I’m being honest but let’s not allow the truth to get in the way of this peach crumble bars intro!

You’d never believe it but the hardest part of creating this recipe was the bloody name! I was inspired to make this recipe because of a book I was reading at the time, the storyline included ladies in a book club about murders happening around their small quaint town…trust me it was a great story but anyway at one point they are having a meeting (in a bookshop ironically) and eating these delicious sounding peach pie bites.

So obviously that was the original name of the recipe and honestly I still prefer it and if this was a cookbook I would name it as such but apparently no one Googles that.

Anyway, back to the recipe part of this article! This type of peach recipe is the perfect example of how simple taste can be exquisite, baking with peaches is such an almost nostril flaring delicious experience. I have a love affair with stone fruit recipes they are some of the most rewarding recipes you can make in your home.

You can substitute your favorite fruit or whatever you have on hand into these crumble bars. Some great substitutions would be:

• Nectarines

• Plums (um YUM can you imagine???)

• Apricots

• Cherries

• Most berries

So basically anything you can put into a fruit pie you can get away with subbing into this recipe.

Tips for Perfect Peach Crumble Bars:

• Do my peaches need to be ripe to bake with?

  Absolutely, the juice content of the peaches will be higher when they are ripe which will bake down into a more delicious peach layer.
  

• Do I need to remove the peach skin?

  Not in my peach crumble bars recipe! You can if that is your preference but personally I leave the peach skins on.
  

• Can I use room temperature or melted butter?

  No, your butter needs to be extremely cold. The extra cold butter rubbed into the dry ingredients will give you that buttery flakey almost pie pastry for your peach crumble bars.
  

• How do I store my peach crumble bars?

  Once cooled and sliced, place them in a airtight container and in a refrigerator for 2-3 days.

Got fresh peaches and want more peach recipes? Take a look at:

• Peach Muffins

• Maple Peach Upside Down Cake

• Grilled Peach Prosciutto Goats Cheese Salad

• Peach Cobbler

Otherwise if you have any questions, drop them in the comments below and I will personally respond to you!

Paige x