Lupin Free Honey-Pear Crumble Bars
These bars are the kind of thing you pull out of the oven and immediately want to eat straight from the pan — golden, crumbly on top, and filled with a glossy honey-pear filling that smells like autumn. The base and topping come together from rolled oats, rice flour, and tapioca starch, which means there's no wheat flour and absolutely no lupin hiding anywhere in the mix. Lupin flour has been quietly sneaking into baked goods and gluten-free blends more and more, so having a recipe built entirely around ingredients you can trust is genuinely useful. The pear filling gets cooked down on the stovetop with honey, a touch of nutmeg, and a splash of apple cider vinegar until it thickens into something almost jammy and deeply fragrant. Cold butter worked into the dry mixture gives the crust and crumble that irresistible sandy, clumpy texture that shatters just right when you bite in. Let them cool fully before cutting — the filling needs time to set — and you'll get clean, sturdy bars that hold together beautifully for sharing or storing.
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9 servings
For the crust and crumble
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats
- ¾ cup rice flour
- ¼ cup tapioca starch
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cut into ½-inch cubes
For the pear filling
- 3 medium ripe pears (about 1 ½ lb), peeled, cored, and cut into ½-inch dice
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp tapioca starch
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 9×9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two opposite sides to use as handles for lifting the bars out later.
- 2
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the rolled oats, rice flour, tapioca starch (the crust-and-crumble portion), granulated sugar, and fine sea salt until evenly combined. Scatter the cold butter cubes over the dry mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse, clumpy crumbs with some pea-sized pieces of butter remaining — do not work it until smooth.
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