Apple & blackberries - ideas please! :)

firlena227

Hi all, I've been given a huge bag of cooking apples, & also picked a load of blackberries... last year I made apple pies & apple & blackberry jam but not really feeling so inspired with those at the moment, anyone have any other ideas?
Preferably using standard store cupboard ingredients, & I'm not fussed about how many calories are in it (that's not to say BRING ON THE SUGAR & BUTTER!! But I mean it doesnt have to be a low cal option
Thanks in advance!

amgreenwell

Blackberry cobbler is one of my favorites. You can sub some splenda or canola oil butter but I like it just the way it is, just eat smaller portions.
Apple tarts, apple sauce, apple butter, roasted apples then freeze and reheat, apple sticks to go with peanut butter, apple jam

PKM0515

Crisps and crumbles and cobblers! (I'm making myself so hungry.)

I love baked apples. My Mom used to stuff the middle with nuts, raisins and maple syrup; so good!

Also, a knock-off of the Boston Market apples.

cesse47

either or both make a great smoothie
they make great cobblers
make into BBQ sauce
make an apple / blackberry crumble with oatmeal & nuts topping
make easy freezer jam
apple or blackberry pancakes or waffles
use in salads
homemade fruit rollups
use to make salsa
mash, add other ingredients, make glaze to use on favorite meats

acpgee

This is a clafoutis recipe I like because it is not too rich and not too sweet. It calls for cherries but you can substitute any fruit. Though it only bakes for 30 minutes at 180C so you might need to poach the cooking apples in some fruit juice first. Makes a nice brunch dish too.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/aug/29/how-to-cook-perfect-cherry-clafoutis

firlena227

Thanks for all the ideas mmmm the clafoutis sounds good, think I'll be trying that one! Also pancakes & crumbles... I usually do a lot of cooking but not so much on the dessert side of things... the mention of apple butter has reminded me i might even have some stashed in the freezer from last year when i did a whole big slow cooker batch of it... I bagged up & froze it in portions & came home one night to find my partner had defrosted a portion to put on his pasta thinking it was spaghetti sauce! Oops!

OHFlamingo

If you have extra blackberries wash them, drain them well. then spread out on a cookie sheet and freeze them. When they are frozen, pack them in a freezer bag and enjoy them later with cereal. yogurt or make your own smoothies! I always do this when they have strawberries amd other berries on sale, or when I have a large crop of my own.

aokoye

To add on to the reply about freezing blackberries, frozen blackberries also bake really well from frozen. Another idea would be canning them. There were a few years where I canned marionberry (which I prefer to blackberries) pie filling which was lovely because I could easily make a pie crust, dump a jar of filling in, and bake it off in the dead of not marionberry season.