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Chef John's Blackberry Buckle

Total Time
1h 26m
16m prep · 70m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Hard
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🥬 Vegetarian ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This delicious blackberry buckle is a rustic dessert. It is called a buckle because the fruit sinks into the buttery batter as it bakes and buckles the surface with its juicy weight. I was going to tell you to use any berry you want, but I changed my mind. This really needs to be done with blackberries. I added a handful of almond meal, since I had it around, and I think almonds and blackberries have a thing for one another.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups fresh blackberries
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  2. 2

    Stir blackberries, 2 tablespoons sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl; let rest, 15 to 20 minutes.

  3. 3

    Whisk flour, 3/4 cup sugar, almond meal, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Stir milk into flour mixture until batter is just combined.

  4. 4

    Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium-high heat; pour into the bottom of an 8x12-inch baking dish. Pour batter on top of melted butter and use a spatula to gently distribute batter without mixing it into butter, leaving a 1-inch butter border around the sides of the dish.

  5. 5

    Scatter blackberries over the batter and spoon any accumulated blackberry juices over the top.

  6. 6

    Bake buckle in the preheated oven until crisped and browned around the edges, about 1 hour.

  7. 7

    Melt remaining butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir almonds in hot butter until golden brown and toasted, 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle toasted almonds over blackberry buckle and cool buckle to room temperature.

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