Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Sweet Summer Dessert

I love berries. All types anytime - blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. When they are in season they are awesome. And the best thing is you can freeze them and they are still great year round.

Right now in BC we're lucky to be enjoying the late fall harvest, with apples and peaches that are so sweet you wonder how you can eat any other kind of fruit. What a perfect time to take some of those fresh Okanagan peaches, and add some frozen blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and fresh blackberries. Let's toss the fruit in a bit of flour, some brown sugar and cinnamon. Place it all in a glass dish. Now the best part. Mix together more flour, brown sugar and melted butter now. Why not add in a little more cinnamon? Awesome. Mix that until it's crumbly and just kind of put it over the top of the fruit.
Into the oven - 350 F for 45-60 minutes. Spoon that out, with a little ice cream. There you go. Isn't that just the best?

Berry Crumble (all measurements are approximations)
- 2 Peaches, diced
- 1 cup frozen Blueberries
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- 1/2 cup frozen strawberries
- 1/2 cup fresh blackberries
- 1/3 or 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar

Topping
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup butter, melted

Toss berries with flour, cinnamon and brown sugar. Place in oven proof glass dish. Mix remaining flour, brown sugar and cinnamon together. Drizzle butter overtop and stir until crumbly. Place on top of berries. Bake. Enjoy with ice cream.


*Pictures from this blog are from this dessert at Basswood Lake, for my sister's birthday. We had awesome Ontario fruit, including Blackberries my other sister and I picked behind the cottage that day.

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