Whoa! Today is the last day of April! Holy balls. Where the hell has the time gone? I really don’t know, because I swear on a Weck canning jar it seems as though only last week I was making pumpkin everything. And now it’s practically May. Unbelievable. This past year has flown by for me, and I have no idea why. It just seems like once last August hit, the time just whooshed past me until all of a sudden I stopped & looked at the calendar & it was April 30th, 2013. Sheesh. Maybe it’s because I’ve had so much going on… maybe it’s just that when you reach a certain age time just starts to go by faster. Not sure. Either way, it seems to have snuck up on me.
And I’ve been having a bit of a rough time lately. *insert long, dramatic sigh* I feel a little lost, truthfully, and to add insult to injury this past weekend ended on a completely shitty note. Add to all of that the fact that I have a severe lack of inspiration. Food isn’t exciting me right now- and I can’t really grasp why. I’ve always been a comfort eater, and yet recently I’m kind of lackadaisical about food in general. No new recipes are calling to me, my mind is blank. I have to change that. I have to get back on my track.
Anyway, when I’m having a rough time of things, I find it’s best to do something that doesn’t require a lot of thought but provides business. And I don’t mean business, but “busy-ness.” Emphasis on the ‘y’ sound. Make your hands busy & your mind will follow, instead of harping on things you can’t change or control. So I throw a few things together to make something just to get my mind off whatever it is that’s getting me down. And every now and then I come up with something a bit… un-label-able (that is definitely NOT a word).
And I do that type of thing a lot; I make things that aren’t really any one thing. But it seems to get worse when I’m frustrated, or sad, or baking to busy myself. Ugh, how can I explain all of this better? Hmm. Well, for example… this isn’t a cake. Not really. And it’s not a bread- it’s too moist. It’s not a cobbler; there’s too much “dough”… and because it isn’t dense or chewy, it really can’t be described as “bars” or cookie bars. It’s just a thing. A blackberry thing, that’s excellent for breakfast. I don’t know. I did the same thing with that ginger stout cake. I STILL don’t really know what that was, I just called it a cake!
But this particular little baked item is even more puzzling.
I could just label it as a cake.
But I won’t.
BLACKBERRY BREAKFAST WHATEVERYOUWANNACALLIT
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1/2 cup sugar plus 3/4 cup
- pinch of salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter, chilled & cut into 1/2″ pieces, plus more for pan
- zest of one organic lemon
- 1/2 cup steel-cut oats
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 10 oz. fresh blackberries
- 2 eggs
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 350º F & grease an 8″ x 8″ baking dish with butter. Set aside.
- Whisk the eggs & sour cream together in a medium bowl. Add 1/2 cup of sugar, 3/4 flour and pinch of salt, and mix well. Gently stir in blackberries. Pour mixture into baking dish.
- Mix together the 3/4 cup flour, 3/4 cup sugar, lemon zest & butter in the bowl of a stand mixer -with the paddle attachment- until it’s crumbly & “sandy” in texture. You can also use a food processor for this, or a pastry cutter.
- Combine crumb mixture with oats. Sprinkle mixture on top of blackberry mixture. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Let cool for 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream, because hey… why not.
I used an 8″ x 8″ Le Creuset stoneware baking dish to make this. Pyrex also works, and I’m sure a regular metal one would work. The baking time might change a little bit, but that’s easy enough to monitor. As a matter of fact, it took a while longer to bake in my stoneware than it probably would have in a regular Pyrex or metal baking dish. Also, you can double this recipe and use a 9″ x 13″ pan, if that suits you better, however the baking time would definitely change in that case.
The whipped cream is a really mildly sweet one, which makes it perfect for breakfast… however, if you just can’t get down that way, yogurt works too. Alternately, vanilla ice cream is great when it’s being served for a dessert.
Sources & credits: Le Creuset stoneware baker in Cassis.
I'm Marilla. A 30-something artist, hobby baker, home canning enthusiast, gardener, DIY-er, wife, mommy of a baby boy and dog mom (to another baby boy) from New York. 
Breakfast Thing looks great 🙂
Just popping in to thank you for hosting the TOTB hop every week… hope you find your mojo soon!
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Aw thanks Jennifer! I’m so behind on posting the blog hop. I have to get back into things once I have a minute to breathe. 🙂
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