Fruit salad; blackberry crisp (like apple crisp only with blackberries); cooked down into a blackberry sauce for french toast, waffles, ice cream; in fact, almost anything that is fruit based or has another type of berry for an ingredient. Best of all, freeze some to have all through the winter. A great deal if you look at the price for frozen blackberries at the grocery store! Just rinse, pat dry gently, and place in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Place in your freezer until frozen solid. Then place in freezer bags, seal, and put back in the freezer! Great berries year round! The same technique works with strawberries and raspberries too!

When blackberry bushes are exploding all over Austin, take as many as you can. Freeze them individually by laying them in a single layer on a sheet pan lined with parchment and put the pan in the freezer. When they're frozen, throw them into a bag and you can pull out as many or as few as you need. A few to throw in a blender with some ice, yogurt and milk for a quick smoothie or a bowlful to make one of the simplest desserts there is. Today we bake them:

Blackberry crumble

2 cups fresh blackberries (or thawed)
Add cup sugar (depending on the sweetness of the fruit)
1T cornstarch
2T orange juice
Mix gently and pour into a buttered dish/dishes. You can make one large or several individual servings.

Topping

3/4 c flour
3/4 c oats
3/4 c brown sugar
1T cinnamon
Mix well and cut in 3/4 stick of cold (unsalted) butter.

You can make the two parts to this point and leave them in the fridge or on the counter until you are ready to cook the crumble. When you sit down to dinner, combine the two and pop it into the oven. Baking the crumble on a sheet pan will remove any possibilities of a gooey mess bubbling over in your oven.

When you are ready to bake it off, sprinkle crumble topping over fruit, bake at 375 for 35 minutes, until the fruit is bubbly and the topping is crispy crunchy brown and delicious looking. The house will smell like oatmeal cookies.

Let it rest 10 minutes out of oven to let it settle down, it's too hot to eat anyway. Serve it up with a huge ball of vanilla ice cream

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Pie, juice, blackberry buckle, topping for ice cream, they also go well with pork, ham, and sausage.

I love picking wild blackberries during the summer, but I'm not much of a cook.

I usually just put a handful of blackberries into a bowl and sprinkle sugar over the top. If I decide to get fancy, I might pour some cream over the top too.

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You can take the sugar-on-top idea a step further and squish them up with some sugar and put them in the freezer.

A simple fridge tart with blackberries can be made with plain sweet square or rectangular biscuits as the base, then topped with a condensed milk and jelly mixture, and as the jelly mixtures starts to cool, add whipped cream, and blackberries, and leave in the fridge to set.

Gosh~  Great question!  Here are several ideas for you that my family simply loves to eat.  We have many berry farms around our area so the fruit is bountiful and the ideas are endless.  I hope these help you with the many ways to use all those wonderful tasting black berries. 

1) Berry Cobbler          2) Blackberry muffins (great for a quick grab in the mornings) 

3) Blackberry short cake           4) Chocolate Black Berry Cake (very tasty) 

5) Blackberry & Spinach Salad with a bit of nuts (pecans are great)  6) Black berry syrup for pancakes

7) Blackberry vinegrette dressing          8) Blackberry torte

I hope this helps a bit.  There is much more that can be done with blackberries. :)  Happy Eating!

One of my family favorites is delicious blackberry icecream. Just stew the blackberries with a little sugar for a few minutes then use as a flavoring for homemade icecream as follows:

* Tin evaporated milk
* 3oz powdered sugar (made in liquidiser)
* Stewed blackberries

Method

1. Place the tin of evaporated milk in a pan of water and bring to the boil.
2. Allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes.
3. Cool and then place in the refrigerator to chill
4. Pour the milk into a bowl and whisk until thick and fluffy (approximately 3 mins with an electric mixer).
5. Add the powdered sugar and stewed blackberries and whisk for a further 5-10 seconds.
6. Pour the mixture into a tray/box and freeze until firm.

Spur of the Moment Cobbler!

Here's one you can do with frozen berries, no defrosting needed.  The point of using frozen berries is that they spend much of the baking time defrosting, so remain berry-like, rather than collapsing into jam.  It works so well for me that if I'm going to makr cobbler, I buy the fruit ahead of time so I have time to freeze it.

First, preheat oven to 325-350 F.  

Nextm mix a top crust from Biquick.  You can follow their shortcake recipe or wing it, combining Bisquick with sugar, melted butter, and enough milk to give you dough that's  the consistency of stiff cookie dough.  Set aside. 

Next, get your berries out of the freezer and put them ina deep-sided baking dish.  I usually make this in an 8" souffle dish, but any casserole dish will do.  Ceremaic and glass bake better than metal.  Pour enough frozen berries into the dish to completely cover the bottom and then some.  Sprinkle with about 2 Tbsp of sugar and 2 Tbsp of corbstarch and toss berries to cover. 

Now drop the dough on the berries by spoonfuls.  Don't try smooth it out or be neat -- those rough little wisps come out crunchy and delicious.

Bake until the top is completely done, crisp and golden brown.  Serve warm with cream on the side to pour over.

You can also combine with frozen raspberries and/or blueberries, depending on what you want to use up.

Backberry muffins or scones.

you have some yummy sounding ideas here for your blackberries. My first thought though is to use them as one ofnyour fruits in a Smoothie. Frozen or fresh, blackberries are awesome in a Smoothie.

In the summer when we get to have blackberries in our area, I like to make pies with them.  If you have a good recipe for a blueberry pie just use that and substitute.  You may need to add a little bit more sugar to the blackberries but all in all you wont need to change the recipe much and the pies taste fantastic!