Roasted Strawberry Crumble with Cointreau

Roasted Strawberry Crumble with Cointreau – this is a quick & easy dessert of juicy, syrupy strawberries topped with a buttery crumble. Perfect fuss free recipe for a simple strawberry dessert.

A gorgeous easy strawberry dessert recipe with hardly any preparation, that includes a syrupy sauce that you will want to drink? My Roasted Strawberry Crumble with Cointreau. Sound too good to be true? Not at all, trust me on this! You will be glad you did!

I love an easy dessert, and this oven baked strawberry crumble couldn’t get any easier. The sweet, juicy strawberries are what makes this dessert a self-saucing winner. Just toss your strawberries into a baking dish, sprinkle on a little sugar plus my secret ingredient – Cointreau liqueur. Add your crumble mixture on top then bake. Next thing you know you will be eating dessert!

Now let’s get our crumble on!

What you will need to make roasted strawberry crumble

• Fresh strawberries – the riper the better!
• Sugar – just ordinary table sugar.
• Cointreau liqueur – my secret ingredient! It has a lovely citrus orange flavour which really compliments the strawberries.
• Plain flour
• Vanilla
• Rolled oats – they add some texture as well flavour to our crumble topping.
• Butter

See recipe card below for quantities and detailed cooking instructions.

How to make strawberry crumble – the topping

• Place plain flour, sugar and rolled oats into a bowl – see Image 1.
• Mix to combine – see Image 2.

• Add melted butter and vanilla – see Image 3.
• Mix well to combine – the mixture should look “crumbly” – see Image 4 – and set aside.

How to make strawberry crumble – the assembly

• Place strawberries into a baking dish – see Image 5.
• Sprinkle sugar over the strawberries – see Image 6.

• Sprinkle Cointreau over the strawberries – see Image 7.
• Give everything a bit of a stir – see Image 8.

• Using your fingers, place clumps of the crumble topping mixture over the top of the strawberries – see Image 9.
• Then place in the oven to bake – see Image 10.

My top tips for making this easy crumble

• The riper and juicier your strawberries are, the more tasty and saucy your result will be. 
• You could substitute Triple Sec or Grand Manier for the Cointreau (any orange flavoured liqueur will do), or orange juice if you want to go alcohol free.
• You will know when it is ready to come out of the oven when the topping is brown and there is juice bubbling up around the edges of the crumble.
• This is great eaten as leftovers the next day – been there. Done that. A few times. Hands up for a roasted strawberry crumble breakfast – well it does have fruit in it! But it will be less saucy because the crumble topping will absorb some of that gorgeous sauce. Still tastes great though!

Other easy dessert recipes you may enjoy

Half-Baked Cookie Dough Pots – so good! Especially if you are like me and have a cookie dough weakness!

Peach Sorbet – no ice cream maker required! Just peaches, sugar & lemon juice and you have yourself peach sorbet. The most popular recipe on this blog. Ever.

Cherry Sorbet – no ice cream maker required! AND it uses frozen cherries! Just add sugar & lemon juice.

Blueberry Peach Crumble – another simple crumble recipe. Rich peach slices with little pops of blueberries, plus a crumbly biscuit topping.

Mascarpone Nutella Creme – dangerously easy and seriously decadent, but so worth the calories! A great make-ahead dessert.

This recipe came about when I walked into my local supermarket the other day and fresh strawberries were on sale super cheap – $1 a punnet! So what did I do? What any bargain buying cook does – buy them now and work out what I’m going to cook with them later of course! The result – this absolutely delicious roasted strawberry crumble. 

Can’t wait to see what’s on sale next time!

Enjoy, Lee-Ann x