Berry Deliciousness

I had so much fun making my first post last week that I decided it should be my goal to bake something easy and delicious to blog about during the week, and then something delicious but potentially more difficult on the weekends. That way I would have a steady stream of posts to keep myself entertained. That was a great idea, ambitious I must admit, because I made my easy and delicious sweet treat on Wednesday night and well it's Sunday evening and I'm just now blogging about it. But hey better late than never right?? So here it is...

Wednesday afternoon I was browsing Tastespotting once again (I know I know - you'll see this is a bit of a habit) and I found a Blackberry Crumble recipe. I thought this would be the perfect mid-week treat and post. The original recipe came from a blog called For the Love of Cooking, once I got started I decided to make a few personal modifications - and it turned out delicious. It's a super easy summertime treat. Berries never seem to be a super heavy dessert and when paired with vanilla ice cream it's the perfect combo of warm delicious berries and cool ice cream. The recipe is so simple! It's definitely going to be one of those I go back to again and again when I need something great in a jiffy! Mix it up to include any and all the berries you want! Enjoy!!

Berry Berry Crumble

3 cups of fresh or frozen berries (I used frozen strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries)
2-3 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp cornstarch

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, mix all ingredients until blended thoroughly. Spray a small baking dish with cooking spray and add berries. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes.

1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats, uncooked
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
6 Tbsp slightly softened butter

While the fruit is baking in the oven, add flour, oats, sugar, cinnamon and butter to a mixing bowl. Mix ingredients with you fingers until crumbly. Once the fruit has cooked 20 minutes, remove from the oven and sprinkle the crumble evenly over the top of the fruit. Return to oven and bake for 15 minutes longer.

*The recipe reflects my modifications - I doubled the crumble ingredients and even added a little extra oatmeal. The crumble is a little bit think and clumpy - this is OK and will turn out as delicious crumble bites on top of your berries.

Bake and share!!! On a completely different side note, making a sweet treat during the week and again on the weekend is a large threat to the household, well the waistbands of the household at least. Here it's just my husband and I, and lets just say that our neighbors and my coworkers better get ready for some sweet treats!! Having something as good as this Berry Berry Crumble around taunting me wasn't good - I caved in every time :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.