What to cook with blackberries? TOP 5 step-by-step recipes for summer blackberry desserts at home. Cooking secrets and tips. Video recipes.
Blackberries are quite delicate berries with a sweet and spicy flavor. It is rich in minerals because contains copper, manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium. Of course, you can eat it on its own or with the addition of sugar, yogurt, sour cream. However, this summer berry makes delicious drinks, compotes, jams, wine, and of course, desserts that everyone will like. What to cook from blackberries, what delicious and sweet desserts to make, as well as the subtleties and secrets of working with this berry, we will find out in this review.
Blackberry desserts - tips and tricks
Blackberries can be used to make many delicious desserts in summer when fresh berries are available for sale: milk smoothies, clafoutis, pastries, desserts, charlotte, pie, cookies and many more. In this case, in all cases, you should adhere to the same secrets and tips.
- Wash your blackberries just before eating. Until then, keep the berries fresh in the refrigerator.
- The fruits are stored in the refrigerator without loss of taste for up to 7 days.
- Blackberries are similar in appearance to raspberries, but only larger, dark purple in color and with harder seeds.
- If you add blackberry puree to dessert, get rid of the seeds by rubbing the berries through a fine sieve.
- You can grind the blackberries with a potato crush, blender or meat grinder.
- Blackberries go well with citrus fruits, which add a piquant bitterness to the dish.
- The fruit harmonizes well with aromatic spices like cardamom, rosemary, and cloves.
- Berries can be used both fresh and frozen.
Blackberry muffins
Delicious delicate and airy blackberry muffins are easy and quick to prepare. The berry imparts a beautiful color to the products and induces appetite. The fruits for the recipe are suitable both fresh and frozen.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 496 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Fresh blackberries - 150 g
- Sugar - 150 g
- Sour cream - 150 ml
- Vanillin - 1 tsp
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Flour - 350 g
- Milk - 150 ml
- Butter - 60 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Salt - a pinch
Making Blackberry Muffins:
- Combine and mix dry foods: flour, sugar, baking powder, vanillin and salt slung through a sieve.
- In another container, combine and mix with a whisk or mixer all the liquid components: sour cream, milk, eggs, melted butter. Melt the butter in a water bath or in a microwave oven, but do not bring it to a boil. It should only acquire a liquid consistency.
- Combine two mixtures: dry and liquid. Mix everything well until smooth so that there are no lumps.
- Wash and dry the berries with a paper towel. Cut the very large fruits into 2 parts. Then add them to the dough and stir.
- Line muffin baking tins with paper rosettes or butter. Silicone containers do not need to be lubricated, the baked goods will not burn in them and can be easily reached.
- Pour the dough into prepared molds, filling them 3/4 full of dough. Since the products will rise when baking.
- Send the muffins with blackberries to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes until golden brown. Sprinkle the finished chilled muffins with powdered sugar.
Shortcrust pastry curd cake with blackberries
One of the easiest to prepare is shortcrust pastry, which goes well with many fillings. And one of the most delicious and healthy fillings is cottage cheese. Combining shortbread dough and cottage cheese in one dessert, and even adding blackberries, you get an amazingly delicious homemade delicacy.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 110 g (in the dough), 110 g (in the filling)
- Starch - 40 g (in the dough), 60 g (in the filling)
- Sugar - 60 g (in the dough), 200 g (in the filling)
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp (into the dough),
- Eggs - 1 pc. (in dough), 3 pcs. (in the filling)
- Cottage cheese - 700 g (in the filling)
- Vanillin - 1 tsp (in the filling)
- Frozen blackberries - 350 g (filling)
Making curd cake from shortcrust pastry with blackberries:
- Combine sifted flour, starch and baking powder to make the dough. Add sugar, eggs and cold butter, chopped or coarsely grated.
- Knead the dough with quick movements, shape it into a round ball, place in a plastic bag and refrigerate for half an hour.
- For the filling, mash the sugar with soft butter and add the vanillin.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Combine the yolks with cottage cheese and chop with a blender so that there are no curd grains. Then add starch to the mask and mix.
- Beat the whites with a mixer until stable peaks and add to the curd mass.
- Roll out the chilled dough in a round shape and place in a split tin, greased with butter.
- Put the curd filling on the dough crust.
- Place frozen blackberries on top. You do not need to defrost them.
- Send the product to a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 70-80 minutes.
Remove the finished blackberry curd pie from the oven and cool in the baking dish.
Blackberry sorbet
Sweet and sour blackberry sorbet is a good dessert for a hot summer day. Light and refreshing taste, special grainy texture, soft texture, beautiful and rich burgundy color. It is served as an independent dessert or in a company with nuts, cookies, fruits, syrups, ice cream …
Ingredients:
- Blackberries - 450 g
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 2 tablespoons
- Sugar - 250 g
- Drinking water - 240 ml
Cooking Blackberry Sorbet:
- Put sugar in a saucepan and pour in water. Simmer the syrup over low heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar completely. This process will take about 3-5 minutes. Cool the prepared syrup in the refrigerator.
- Wash the blackberries, dry them with a paper towel and mash them with a blender.
- Pour the chilled syrup into the fruit puree, stir and strain through a fine sieve to remove the seeds.
- Transfer to a large bowl and add lemon juice.
- Send the container to the refrigerator to cool the mixture completely.
- Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and prepare the blackberry sorbet according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- If there is no such device, send the sweetness to the freezer and stir every hour with a spoon. Do this until the mass is completely frozen. Remove the dessert from the freezer and leave at room temperature to partially defrost. Then beat the sorbet with a mixer and return to freeze again for 3 hours.
Blackberry milkshake
A delicious creamy and sweet blackberry milkshake looks amazing thanks to the vibrant purple color that fresh and ripe berry imparts.
Ingredients:
- Blackberries - 150 g
- Milk - 500 ml
- Ice cream sundae - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon
Making a blackberry milkshake:
- Pour cold milk into the blender bowl. Better even before cooking it in the freezer for half an hour. Since only strongly chilled drinks will produce a fluffy and airy foam in the drink.
- Next, pour the icing sugar into the blender bowl and add the ice cream.
- Wash the blackberries and dry them with a paper towel. Send the berries to a blender bowl.
- Whisk the food on high speed until smooth.
- Pour the blackberry milkshake gently into the glass and serve immediately. Since it is not customary to prepare such a drink for the future.
Charlotte with blackberries
Charlotte is a quick dessert that can be prepared in just 45 minutes. It requires a minimum amount of products, while the baked goods are tasty, tender and airy.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 100 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Salt - a pinch
- Blackberries - 300 g
Cooking charlotte with blackberries:
- Pour eggs into a bowl and add sugar. Beat the food with a mixer so that the sugar dissolves, the eggs increase in volume, and the mass acquires a lemon hue.
- Pour flour sifted through a sieve into the egg mixture with a pinch of salt and stir the dough so that there are no lumps.
- Grease a baking dish with removable sides with butter and lay out the blackberries.
- Fill the berries with dough and smooth in an even layer.
- Send the charlotte with blackberries to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 35 minutes until golden brown. Check the readiness of the product by piercing a wooden stick.
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