Blueberry Crumb Pie is perfect for summer, with a crumbly crust and a fresh blueberry filling dusted with cinnamon. It’s a deliciously easy pie that doesn’t take too much effort to make.
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Why the Best Blueberry Crumble Pie Recipe is a Keeper
This is one of our favorite blueberry pie recipes, made with a baked pie crumble topping and a homemade pie crust crumble. This is a great pie for Thanksgiving, summer parties, gatherings, and more. Here are a few reasons why you’ll want to make the best blueberry pie recipe with streusel crumble:
- Easy Ingredients: All of the simple ingredients for this homemade pie can be found in your kitchen or local grocery store.
- Family Friendly: Fresh blueberry pie is a great recipe to make and enjoy with your family, especially if you’re using fresh-picked blueberries. After a fun day of berry picking and baking, you’ll have a pie full of summer memories.
- Adaptable: Adjust the ingredients to your preferences and dietary needs. Add different spices or mixed berries, and use gluten free flour to make this pie if you’d prefer.
If you love this recipe and are looking for more blueberry recipes, try these: Mini Blueberry Cheesecakes, Copycat Starbucks Blueberry Scones, and Blueberry Pineapple Smoothie.
How Do You Select the Perfect Berry?
Picking your own blueberries can be a fun activity to enjoy with your family. However, since they don’t ripen once they’re picked, you want to make sure you and your little blueberry pickers have just the right berries in order to make the best blueberry pie. Ripe blueberries are firm and dark blue, without any green or white.
Ingredient Notes to Make Fresh Blueberry Pie with Crumble Topping
- Blueberries: Blueberries will make up the filling for this pie. You can use frozen blueberries or fresh ones.
- Flour: Use all-purpose flour to make the crumb topping for blueberry pie.
See the recipe card below for the rest of the recipe ingredients with measurements.
Variations and Substitutions to Make Blueberry Crumb Pie
- Fruit Pie: This crumb pie recipe can be made with different kinds of fresh or frozen berries. Try sliced strawberries, blackberries, or raspberries.
Special Equipment Needed to Make the Pie
Pie Pan: Use a pie pan to make the crumble pie. A glass pie dish or deep dish pie pan will work fine, and a 9-inch pie pan is recommended. However, since this pie doesn’t have a traditional crust, you don’t need pie weights or dried beans since there’s no bottom crust.
Blueberry Pie Filling Pro Tip
Use 1/2 of a small grated apple to help thicken the filling.
How to Make Blueberry Crumble Pie
This excellent recipe for blueberry pie tastes just like summer. It’s super easy to make, especially for beginners. If you followed the recipe and it’s one you enjoy, make sure to rate the recipe and leave a comment below.
These are the basic steps for making crumb top blueberry pie. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Prepare Pie Ingredients
First, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Then, place 2 cups of flour, along with the sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a pie plate, and stir with a fork until combined.
2. Make Pie Crust Recipe
In a small bowl, combine milk and oil and pour over dry ingredients. Reserve 1/3 of the pie dough for the crumb topping. Press remaining pie crust dough into the pie plate, making sure to go up the sides to create an overhang over the edges of the pie dish.
3. Make the Filling
Place the blueberries and sugar in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Then, add flour to the berries and microwave for an additional 2 minutes. Stir in lemon juice, salt, and cinnamon to the blueberry pie filling.
4. Assemble the Pie
Pour the blueberry filling into the prepared crust and sprinkle tapioca onto the top of the pie. Finally, scatter the reserved dough for the crumb topping and bake the pie at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes. After you assemble and bake the pie, allow the pie to cool completely.
Easy Blueberry Dessert Recipe FAQs
If you somehow made this pie last and want to save some for later, cover the pie with aluminum foil or plastic wrap. Then, chill the pie in the refrigerator. The chilled pie should be good for up to 5 days.
Wrap the pie with a sheet of plastic wrap or store it in an airtight container to freeze. It should be good for up to 4 months when frozen.
Make the blueberry filling and mix the dry ingredients of the dough up to 3 days in advance, then add the wet ingredients and fill the pie before you’re ready to bake.
You can use cornstarch in the crust recipe, but the consistency won’t be the same. Tapioca is recommended.
Expert Tips for Making the Perfect Pie Recipe
- Double: To double the recipe, increase the ingredients proportionately and split it into two pie pans before baking.
- Lemon Zest: This pie would be great with lemon zest in the filling in addition to the juice.
- Nuts: Pieces of almond, pecans, or walnuts add a satisfying crunch to the crumble.
- Butter: Add a little butter to the crumb topping for a golden finish.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- ¾ teaspoons Salt
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ⅔ cup Canola Oil
- 3 tablespoons Milk
- 4 cups Blueberries
- ⅔ cup Sugar
- 3 tablespoons Flour
- dash Lemon Juice
- dash Salt
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Instant Tapioca
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Put flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a pie plate.
- Stir with fork until combined.
- In a small bowl, combine milk and oil and pour over dry ingredients.
- Reserve 1/3 of the dough for the crumb topping.
- Press remaining dough into the pie plate, making sure to go up the sides.
- Place the blueberries and sugar in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes.
- Add flour to the berries and microwave for an additional 2 minutes.
- Stir in lemon juice, salt and cinnamon.
- Pour filling into prepared crust and sprinkle tapioca on top.
- Scatter the reserved dough for the crumb topping.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes.
Christina’s Notes
- Double: To double the recipe, increase the ingredients proportionately and split it into two pie pans before baking.
- Lemon Zest: This pie would be great with lemon zest in the filling in addition to the juice.
- Nuts: Pieces of almond, pecans, or walnuts add a satisfying crunch to the crumble.
- Butter: Add a little butter to the crumb topping for a golden finish.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
This is really easy to follow, loved this crumb topped blueberry pie recipe! It’s really tasty and very flavorful! Will surely have this again! Highly recommended!
Delicious, fresh, sweet – we loved this! Thank you for the wonderful recipe.
You had me at 30 minutes. And then it turned out to be delicious, too! Your blueberry pie is company-worthy dessert!
I made this pie and it turned out great! I actually used frozen blueberries that we had picked over the summer, and it still was a hit, thanks!!
Thanks for sharing that you can use frozen berries! I’ll have to try that next time! 🙂
Lovely work, Christina! Would you be happy to link it in to the current Food on Friday over at Carole’s Chatter which is creating a collection of pie and tart recipes? This is the link . I do hope to see you there. There are already some great pies and tarts linked in. Cheers
I’ll be linking up! Thanks for the invite!
This sounds so good. I LOVE blueberry pie, but honestly I don’t think I’ve ever had it with a crumb topping like that.
Wow! Looks delicious!
Blueberry Pie is my flavour. Love the recipe.
I will be trying this out next week!
Another FB friend made this the week it was in the paper. She loved it so much, I asked her to send me the recipe.
This is completely delish! I was blown away by how easy it was! Enjoy! 🙂
Pies are one of my ((favorite)) desserts!! =)
Pinning your recipe to my Dessert board.
This one is worth making! It’s so good and super easy!