Blueberry And Nectarine Buckle Food

BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• Cream butter; add sugar and beat until light.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, beating until smooth.
• Fold in berries.
• Pour into greased pan (9x9x2).
• To make the crumb topping, blend all the ingredients for it together.
• Sprinkle with Crumb topping.
• Bake in a preheated moderate oven (375 F) for about 35 minutes.

BLUEBERRY AND NECTARINE COBBLER

Steps:

• Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees F.
• For the fruit: Halve the nectarines along their natural seam, but leave skins on. Cut each half into 3 wedges. Toss nectarines with blueberries, sugar, and tapioca and put into a buttered 9-inch round gratin or casserole dish. Dot the top of the fruit with the pieces of butter.
• For the cobbler top: Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Rub in 2 tablespoons of the butter with your fingertips until no visible pieces remain. Rub in the remaining 4 tablespoons butter just until it is in even, pea-size pieces. Whisk together the egg and cream and stir into the dry ingredients to make a shaggy, loose dough.
• Spoon large spoonfuls of dough on top of the fruit in clumps (it should look like rough, old-fashioned cobblestones, hence the name cobbler). Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of the topping comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool cobbler on a rack, about 20 minutes.
• Serve warm or room temperature, with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.
• Serving suggestions: Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

BEST BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour a springform pan.
• Sift 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl.
• Beat 1/4 cup butter, 3/4 cup sugar, and egg with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Gradually add milk and beat until fluffy; stir in flour mixture, making a stiff batter. Gently fold in blueberries and spread batter into prepared springform pan.
• Mix 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, cinnamon, and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl until blended and crumbly in texture. Sprinkle on top of batter, then lightly press topping into batter using fingertips.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with moist crumbs, about 40 minutes.

BLUEBERRY NECTARINE CRISP

Steps:

• For the filling: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.
• In a large bowl, combine the nectarines and blueberries. Add the granulated sugar, cornstarch, salt and orange juice and mix gently. Pour the fruit mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• For the topping: In a large bowl, add the flour, oats, granulated sugar, brown sugar and salt and mix to combine. Cut 1 1/2 sticks of the butter into cubes, then cut the butter cubes into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or 2 knives. Stir in the pecans and the reserved orange zest.
• Spread the topping over the fruit. Cut the remaining 1/2 stick butter into cubes and dot the top of the crisp with it. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking until the top is browned and the fruit is bubbling, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool a bit before serving.
• For the whipped cream: Mix the cream and granulated sugar in a bowl and whip to the desired consistency.
• Plate the crisp into individual bowls and top with the whipped cream.

CHEF JOHN'S BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Generously butter a 2 1/2-quart baking dish.
• Pour blueberries into prepared baking dish.
• Blend milk, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla extract, and salt in a blender until batter is smooth. Pour batter over blueberries and gently shake to remove any air bubbles.
• Bake in the preheated oven until puffed and center is set, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool until clafoutis deflates and is just warm.

BERRY NECTARINE BUCKLE

Steps:

• For topping, in a small bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until crumbly. Set aside., In a large bowl, cream the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Set aside 3/4 cup batter. Fold blueberries into remaining batter., Spoon into a 13x9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Arrange nectarines on top; sprinkle with remaining sugar. Drop reserved batter by teaspoonfuls over nectarines. Sprinkle with raspberries, blackberries and reserved topping., Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm.

BLUEBERRY NECTARINE BUCKLE

Steps:

• 1. Make the TOPPING by mixing all ingredients by hand in a small bowl until the mixture forms large clumps. Cover and refrigerate.
• 2. Generously butter a 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.
• 3. Sift dry ingredients together in a small bowl. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar together at medium speed until fluffy. Add in the vanilla and the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in flour mixture until combined. Gently fold in blueberries and nectarines.
• 4. Spread the batter in the baking pan and sprinkle with the TOPPING mixture. Bake on the middle rack at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Toothpick inserted in the middle should come out clean and the top should be crispy and brown. Let stand for 15 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

BLUEBERRY-NECTARINE BUCKLE

Steps:

• Topping: In a small bowl, blend together all ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Chill the topping while making the batter.
• Batter: In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together, beat in the vanilla.
• In a small bowl, stir together baking powder, flour and salt.
• Alternately beat the flour mixture and eggs into the butter mixture. Add an egg each time beating well after each addition.
• Fold in the blueberries and nectarines.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread the batter in a well-greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Sprinkle the topping evenly over it.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 min or until knife inserted comes out clean and topping is crisp and golden.

BLUEBERRY AND NECTARINE BUCKLE

Steps:

• Make the topping: In a small bowl blend together the butter, the sugar, the flour, the cinnamon, and the nutmeg until the mixture resembles coarse meal and chill the topping while making the batter.
• Make the batter: In a small bowl with an electric mixer cream together the butter and the sugar and beat in the vanilla. In a small bowl stir together the baking powder, the flour, and the salt, beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture alternately with the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and fold in the blueberries and the nectarines.
• Spread the batter in a well-buttered 10-by 2-inch round cake pan or 2-quart baking pan, sprinkle the topping evenly over it and bake the buckle in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean and the topping is crisp and golden. Serve the buckle with whipped cream.

NECTARINE AND BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• To make topping: In a 350°F oven, place the pecans on a baking sheet and toast until lightly browned, 7-10 minutes. Cool. In a medium bowl combine the toasted pecans, flour, brown and white sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Add the margarine and mix together until the mixture is crumbly. Set the mixture aside.To Make the Cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9 inch square baking dish.In the bowl of an electric mixer combine the margarine and sugar and cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the egg. Sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and ginger and then add alternately with the nondairy milk substitute to the creamed mixture, blending the ingredients well. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish, spreading it evenly. Sprinkle the blueberries and the nectarine pieces over the batter in an even layer. Sprinkle the nut mixture over the fruit. Bake until the top is golden brown and bubbling, about 45 minutes.