This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. A few days ago I shared a recipe with you that used dried apples, not reconstituted. It was a fabulous recipe for Dried Apple Oatmeal Cookies. I mentioned in that post that sometimes you reconstitute apples to use them when baking and sometimes you don't have to. A few people have asked me about how to reconstitute them, so I thought I would share the simple process with you, plus give you a recipe for Apple Crisp using dried apples as well. (I think I also mentioned that in the cookie post.)
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This post contains affiliated links. I will be compensated for purchases made at those links with no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. I had some fresh blackberries that needed to be used as well as some very ripe bananas. I wasn't in the mood to make bread or pie, so VOILA! This Banana Blackberry Crumble is born! I baked it in my large cast iron skillet, which seems so down home and comforting for some reason. Who knew that berries and bananas could marry so well? Since my tastebuds have never totally recovered from Covid, my friend Rhonda, my husband and my son all gave this recipe the thumbs up. The first step is to get the blackberries ready. By adding the cornstarch, sugar and lemon juice to them first, the juices will begin to flow, giving this crumble its moist goodness. Next, you mix up the crumble ingredients. The butter should be cold, (not frozen), and cut into the dry ingredients so that it lives up to its name...crumble. Finally, prepare the bananas. When I first made this recipe, I simply sliced them and then caramelized them on one side. But, Rhonda suggested chopping them a bit smaller and caramelizing them then mixing them with the berries a bit more so that the flavor of the berries and the bananas combined rather than being in layers. I'm going to try it that way next time and see which method we prefer. If you try it before I do, please let me know your thoughts. I do think that the caramelizing step is very important to the final outcome of this recipe. Of course, you can't serve a crumble without a scoop of ice cream on top. We were out of vanilla and used Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, lol. I think vanilla would have been better! If you loved this post, you may enjoy these as well:
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I am teaching a jam making class this weekend, so I was looking at fruit prices to see what kind of jam I was going to make. Blackberries are in season and I've found some good prices on them, and if you know me, you know that I love blackberries, so blackberry jam is a no brainer! I decided that I should put together a post that shares with you a collection of the great blackberry recipes that we have loved here on the blog!
I've already canned some blackberries in pint jars all by themselves this season. These are great to have on hand for a quick pie, cobbler or ice cream topping. They don't last long in our house!
Speaking of cobbler, blackberries and peaches make a great mix in my mom's old recipe that we love!
We can't forget blackberry pie either! It is just so sweet and delicious! Those home canned blackberries make it a cinch.
One of my personal favorites is this recipe for Blackberry Lemon Marmalade. It was the first marmalade recipe that I came up with all on my own. I was so proud of how great it turned out!
I made this No-Bake Blackberry Cheesecake for Lindsey's wedding reception. It was one of her favorites!
As a twist on regular lemon bars, I came up wit this recipe for Blackberry Lemon Bars. They are so good, absolutely to die for! I've talked about them a lot on the blog. If you haven't tried them, you must!
Those are my personal favorites. There are a few other recipes that are also great if you search "blackberries" in the search bar, but these are ones you definitely need to try! I'll post the jam recipe soon, after I get through teaching the upcoming jam class! Wish me luck!
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Happy Great American Solar Eclipse Day!
We hope you have an awesome experience on this exciting day! Remember to be safe! Don't even take selfies with the eclipse behind you, because the reflection can still hurt your eyes. If you didn't get the solar eclipse glasses, Alicia showed another safe way to view the eclipse here.
Last week on Renny’s Recipes, Lindsey shared her favorite camping treat, Peach Cobbler. She and I were on the same wave length! I had also promised on Friday Faves to share some of my peach cobbler recipes. This one, Essie’s Cobbler, is an old fashioned one that I remember my mother making when I was small. It not only has peaches, but delicious berries. Her recipe calls for canned peaches and either raspberries or blueberries.
If you remember, I showed you how I canned peaches on this post, and blackberries in this post. I decided to use both of those in this recipe, and the result was delicious!
The recipe calls for making this cobbler in a loaf pan. I needed to make two of these. One for home and one to give away. So, I had purchased an aluminium cake pan for the one to give away so the family wouldn’t have to worry about returning it to me. (I like to keep these on hand for when I take food to people or functions. They really come in handy! This link is to a really good price on a dozen of them!) I will show you pictures of both of the ways of cooking these different sizes. For the cake pan, I merely doubled the recipe. That meant, I 1 ½ timed it over all! The recipe I am giving you is just for one recipe. You can do the math yourself if you want to make a bigger batch! Click on the pictures below for tips.
We may also need to start a cobbler category over on our sidebar because this is the 3rd recipe for cobbler that we have given you. I just remembered this one! We called it a Blueberry Dump Cake, but it is pretty much a cobbler.
So, go ahead! Celebrate Solar Eclipse Day with a delicious cobbler! You don't really need an excuse anyway! Click the button for the printable recipe! Be sure to pin and share. Thanks.
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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