You can prepare our vegan crumble cake with just a few ingredients. We’ll also tell you which seasonal fruit you can use to change it up depending on the season.

This vegan crumble cake is a great basic recipe that you can modify in many ways. Crumb cake is often prepared with pudding. However, our recipe replaces the pudding with fresh seasonal fruit. The recipe is also vegan, so it does not contain any animal products.

You don’t need any fancy ingredients for the vegan crumble cake. You can get most of the products from regional and organic retailers. This saves CO2 emissions and you avoid residues of chemical-synthetic pesticides on your food. Follow the recipe to find out which seasonal fruit goes particularly well with the crumble cake.

Tip: You can easily grow many types of fruit yourself in the garden or on the balcony.

Crumble Cake: A Basic Recipe

This recipe is suitable for a springform pan with a diameter of 26 centimeters.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp fat for the mold
280 g flour
120 gcane sugar
200 g vegan margarine
1 teaspoon Baking powder
500 g Seasonal fruit

Directions:

Grease the springform pan with some margarine or cooking oil.
For the base: Mix 180 grams of flour, 50 grams of sugar, 120 grams of vegan margarine and the baking powder together. Pour the batter into the springform pan.
For the crumble: Knead 100 grams of flour, 70 grams of sugar and 80 grams of margarine into a crumbly dough. You can find out how this works best here: Make Streusel: Simple step-by-step instructions with 3 ingredients.
Sort and wash seasonal fruit. Peel as needed and cut into small pieces if necessary.
Spread the fruit on the cake base and sprinkle the crumbles over it.
Bake the cake at 180 degrees Celsius (top/bottom heat) for about 50 minutes. After 40 minutes, do a chopstick test.

This fruit goes well with the vegan crumble cake

If you prepare the vegan crumble cake with seasonal fruit, you will always have variety on the coffee table throughout the year. The following types of fruit are particularly suitable:

Rhubarb: April to June inclusive
Blueberries: June to September inclusive
Strawberries: June to September inclusive
Raspberries: July to September inclusive
Blackberries: July to September inclusive
Plums and damsons: July to October inclusive
Apples: August up to and including November (from storage until April)
Pears: September (from storage until January)

In our seasonal calendar, you will find an even larger overview of when which fruit is in season.