Blackberry Tarts
August 5, 2009 at 1:45 pm 2 comments
My friend and her family went blackberry picking at Eckerts last weekend. I was so jealous by her loot that I went to the local Eckerts outlet and picked up some of my own.
I should have put a quarter next to one of the berries so you could see just how huge they are.
The kids wouldn’t eat them raw, so I found this recipe from Martha Stewart.
Obviously I used blackberries instead of blueberries. The recipe called for 2 cups of blueberries, but I only needed 24 blackberries…one for each cup. (I writing this post with a 3 year old jumping on my back. My apologies)
The crust is divine and I didn’t/wouldn’t change anything about it.
I just sprinkled the 24 blackberries with a little lemon juice, sugar, and instant tapioca (I didn’t have cornstarch).
Next time I would maybe use a little more sugar for the filling. The crust is pretty sweet, so the tart berries really set it off.
Seriously huge blackberries.
After I brought them out of the oven, the blackberries were still whole. I just used the butt end of a knife to smash them up a bit. The were fine once they cooled.
I’ll have to make another batch. They were gone pretty fast! Its amazing what a little fat and sugar can do for fruit!
Entry filed under: Cooking.
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thediaperdiaries | August 5, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Dangit I wish you lived closer!!
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Deanna | August 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Did you go out and buy the mini muffin pan too?
I never did make anything out of our 7 pounds. We’ve been enjoying them so much that we don’t want to “waste” them in baked goods.