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(Fresh) Blueberry White Chocolate Brown Butter Cookies

Chewy brown butter cookies with the perfect crispy edge are filled with fresh blueberries and white chocolate chips.

(Fresh) Blueberry White Chocolate Brown Butter Cookies - the cookie of the summer!

When Matt told me we were going to a barbecue with his co-workers, I knew I had to bring my baking A-game.  They’ve actually all been eating my desserts for years, but I didn’t want to let them down when I met some of them for the first time.  A cookie made with brown butter is a surefire crowd-pleaser, and I figured that blueberries would be the perfect way to make them a special summer treat.  My cookie with fresh blueberry obsession started a couple of years ago and I love that most people are still impressed with the element of fresh fruit in a cookie.  This version was inspired by this winter cookie I made for the holidays.

If Matt gets a promotion any time soon, I’ll be taking full credit;-)  The blueberry pie I brought will be on the blog next week!

(Fresh) Blueberry White Chocolate Brown Butter Cookies - sweet, chewy, crispy edges, everything you could want in a cookie!

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(Fresh) Blueberry White Chocolate Brown Butter Cookies
 
Chewy brown butter cookies with the perfect crispy edge are filled with fresh blueberries and white chocolate chips.
Author:
Recipe type: Dessert
Makes: 30 large cookies
Ingredients
  • 227g (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 310g (~1⅓ cups packed) light brown sugar
  • 110g (~1/2 cup) granulated sugar
  • 100g (2 large) whole eggs at room temperature
  • 10 milliliters (2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
  • 400g (~3 cups) all-purpose flour
  • 5g (1 teaspoons) baking soda
  • 5g (1 teaspoon) salt
  • 227g (~1 cup) white chocolate chips
  • 210g (~1½ cups) fresh blueberries, washed and dried
Instructions
  1. Brown the butter: Heat butter in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, when butter turns to an amber/light brown color, remove from heat immediately (You should be able to smell the deeper more caramel flavor of the butter) pour browned butter immediately into a small bowl and set aside to cool
  2. Once butter has cooled, place in the large bowl of an electric mixer with sugars; beat on high speed until well combined
  3. Add egg and vanilla, mix on medium speed until well combined
  4. In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt; slowly add to wet ingredients with mixer on low speed; do not over mix
  5. Slowly stir in white chocolate chips; remove bowl from mixer and gently fold in blueberries
  6. Chill dough for 24 hours for best results (minimum of 2 hours) before baking
  7. When ready to bake, pre-heat oven to 325 degrees; line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside
  8. Scoop cookie dough with large cookie dough scoop (~3 tablespoons) on to prepared baking sheets (note it is normal for cookie dough to be very hard, you can let it rest at room temperature for a few minutes prior to scooping); be careful not to pack dough too tightly as to avoid crushing blueberries before baking
  9. Bake cookies until firm: 17-19 minutes or until edges are golden brown and blueberries have popped
  10. Allow to cool before serving; best enjoyed within 24 hours or frozen until a few hours before ready to eat

(Fresh) Blueberry White Chocolate Brown Butter Cookies - basically cookie perfection

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Brown Butter Peach Crumb Muffins

The perfect summer brunch food.  These brown butter muffins are full of juicy peaches and topped with a cinnamon crumble.

Brown Butter Peach Crumb Muffins

Summers for us are always full of travelling to see family.  I try to bring a different sweet treat every time, though my family has had its fair share of bakery “scraps”!  These muffins were the perfect addition to a recent summer brunch.  Even though they are flavored with brown butter and finished with a crumb topping, they really aren’t that heavy.  They are heavy on the peaches so you should get a juicy piece of fruit in every bite.

Brown Butter Peach Crumb Muffins

Brown Butter Peach Crumb Muffins
 
The perfect summer brunch food. These brown butter muffins are full of juicy peaches and topped with a cinnamon crumble.
Author:
Recipe type: Breakfast
Makes: 12 muffins
Ingredients
Muffin ingredients:
  • 100g (7 tablespoons) unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)
  • 80 milliliters (1/3 cup) milk at room temperature
  • 55g (1 large) egg + 20g (1 large) egg yolk at room temperature
  • 5 milliliters (1 teaspoon) vanilla extract
  • 160g (~3/4 cup granulated sugar )
  • 120g (~3/4 cup) white whole wheat flour
  • 100g (~3/4 cup) all-purpose flour
  • 7 ½g (1½ teaspoons) baking powder
  • 3g (1 teaspoon) ground cinnamon
  • ½g (1/4 teaspoon) ground nutmeg
  • 1g (1/4 teaspoon) salt
  • 300g (~2 cups) chopped peaches (~2 large peaches)
Topping Ingredients:
  • 40g (3 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cold
  • 65g (~1/2 cup) all-purpose flour
  • 40g (~3 tablespoons) granulated sugar
  • 2g (1/2 teaspoon) ground cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees; line a muffin pan with paper or foil liners and set aside
  2. Make the muffin batter
  3. Brown the butter: Heat butter in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly; when butter turns to an amber/light brown color with dark specks, remove from heat immediately
  4. Pour browned butter into a small bowl and set aside
  5. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; set aside
  6. In a medium bowl, whisk milk, egg, egg yolk and vanilla until combined; whisk in brown butter
  7. Add milk mixture to dry ingredients and stir just until combined; gently fold in peaches
  8. Distribute batter evenly among cupcake liners and set aside
  9. Make crumb topping by combining the butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon with your fingers until most of the dry ingredients are in small clumps; sprinkle each muffin generously with topping
  10. Bake muffins 18-20 minutes or until a knife or toothpick comes out of center of a muffin clean
Notes
Adapted from these Brown Butter Blueberry Muffins (original source: Joy the Baker Cookbook)

Brown Butter Peach Crumb Muffins

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{Gluten-Free} Summer Berry Skillet Crisp

A summer berry crisp topped with buttery oat crumble.  It just so happens to be gluten-free!

Gluten-Free Summer Berry Skillet Crisp - full of the best summer berries

I know I’ve talked about this before, but I have a serious issue when I see summer fruit at Costco.  I can NOT buy enough.  A few weeks ago, I needed food for five days, just five.  Now, given my current insatiable pregnancy hunger, I do eat enough for an extra person, but I’m pretty sure that either way, Matt and I can not possibly consume 4 pounds of blueberries, 4 pounds of strawberries and 1 pound of blackberries in just five days.  Believe me, I’ve tried.  So what’s a person to do when they have an excessive amount of fruit?  Bake of course.

{Gluten-Free} Summer Berry Skillet Crisp - just dig in with a spoon!

I generally don’t let a season pass without making at least one warm fruit crumble of sorts.  They are almost too easy to make and compared to some of my typical baking, they are definitely on the lighter side.  Of course a generous helping of ice cream is always necessary, but hey, a pregnant lady needs calcium!  This might be one of my favorites because it is heavy on the blueberries.  There was one summer where I swear, we made blueberry crisp multiple times a week throughout the entire season.  So between the nostalgia, and the wonderful bursts of flavor, this crisp definitely made me happy.

 

{Gluten-Free} Summer Berry Skillet Crisp
 
A summer berry crisp topped with buttery oat crumble. It just so happens to be gluten-free!
Author:
Recipe type: Dessert
Makes: 6 servings
Ingredients
Topping:
  • 55g (~1/2 cup) oat flour* (I pulsed my oatmeal in the food processor until it was the consistency of flour)
  • 40g (~1/2 cup) old fashioned oatmeal*
  • 70g (~1/3 cup, tightly packed) light brown sugar
  • 55g (1/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
Filling:
  • 450g (~4 cups) blueberries
  • 370g chopped strawberries (from 465 grams / 1 pound whole)
  • 400g (~4 cups) blackberries
  • 57g (~1/4 cup) granulated sugar
  • 15g (~2 tablespoons) oat flour* (I pulsed my oatmeal in the food processor until it was the consistency of flour)
  • 15 milliliters (1 tablespoon) fresh lemon juice (~1/2 lemon)
  • 14g (1 tablespoons) unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a medium bowl, prepare topping; mix together oat flour, oatmeal and brown sugar
  3. Add butter and use fingers to combine until mixture is slightly lumpy; set aside
  4. Prepare filling; in 10 or 12-inch skillet, stir together fruit, granulated sugar, oat flour, lemon juice and butter; sprinkle evenly with topping
  5. Bake for about 30 minutes or until filling is bubbling and topping is lightly browned, if you see that topping has started to get to brown early, lightly cover with tin foil for remainder of baking time
Notes
Adapted from my Winter Fruit Crisp and Blackberry, Peach and Pistachio Crisp*
If serving to someone with a gluten allergy make sure your ingredients are labeled gluten-free
You can replace fresh berries with frozen but cooking time may increase
This warm berry crisp is best served family style with generous scoops of ice cream
The entire dish can be made ahead of time and kept in refrigerator until ready to bake; may require extra cooking time if cold

{Gluten-Free} Summer Berry Skillet Crisp - so delicious!

 

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Blackberry, Peach and Pistachio Crisp {Gluten-free}

A summer fruit crisp topped with buttery crumb topping and crunchy pistachios.  It just so happens it is gluten-free!

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I don’t know if I mentioned this on here, but my sister was living with us for a few months.  Her NYC lease ended in April, she relocated to my Parents this past weekend and then she moves to Boston in August.  She is going to Harvard for grad school, no biggie. Ahem, huge biggie!

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Jessica has about ten times the social life that I do, so she wasn’t around all that much while she lived here.  Given the tight space (her “bed” aka air mattress was surrounded by packaging materials), I don’t blame her.  It wasn’t the most glamorous of places to live.  When she was around, though, it was really nice.  The apartment is already feeling empty in her absence!  Really, New York is feeling empty in her absence!  I’ve been here for seven years, and minus her semester abroad, so has she.  I have a feeling there will be a ton of trips to Boston in my near future.

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Over the last month or so I’ve tried to spend extra time with her.  Between girl’s night, days at the pool, Glee marathons and going away parties it has been a blast.  Last week we even had a couple of her friends over for a mid-week barbeque.  The best part of mid-week entertaining?  Dessert.  I stuck with something easy, summery and light-ish.  This fruit-filled dessert is topped with an oatmeal based crumb topping that I added pistachios to for a salty contrast and crunch.  You can use any fruit, really.  I used some lackluster blackberries that were better off in a dessert and giant juicy peaches.  Oh, and I am way too lazy to peel off the skin, so you can peel it if you prefer.

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Blackberry, Peach and Pistachio Crisp {Gluten-free}
 
A summer fruit crisp topped with buttery crumb topping and crunchy pistachios. It just so happens it is gluten-free!
Author:
Recipe type: Dessert
Makes: 6 servings
Ingredients
Topping:
  • 2 ounces (~1/2 cup) oat flour* (I pulsed my oatmeal in the food processor until it was the consistency of flour)
  • ¾ ounces (~1/4 cup) old fashioned oatmeal*
  • 1½ ounces (~1/3 cup) salted pistachios, roughly chopped
  • 2.5 ounces (~1/3 cup, tightly packed) light brown sugar
  • 2 ounces (1/4 cup /  ½ stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
Filling:
  • 1½ pounds (3 large / ~4 cup yield) peaches, thinly sliced, peeling the skin is optional
  • 14 ounces (~4 cups) blackberries
  • 2 ounces (~1/4 cup) granulated sugar
  • ½ ounces (~2 tablespoons) oat flour* (I pulsed my oatmeal in the food processor until it was the consistency of flour)
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • ½ ounce (1 tablespoons) unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees; grease a 9-inch baking dish (or one of comparable volume) and set aside
  2. In a medium bowl, prepare topping; mix together oat flour, oatmeal, pistachios and brown sugar
  3. Add butter and use fingers to combine until mixture is slightly lumpy; set aside
  4. Prepare filling; in a very large bowl, stir together fruit, granulated sugar, oat flour, cinnamon, lemon juice and butter
  5. Spread filling into prepared baking dish; sprinkle evenly with topping
  6. Bake for about 35 minutes or until filling is bubbling and topping is lightly browned, if you see that topping has started to get to brown early, lightly cover with tin foil for remainder of baking time
Notes
Adapted from my Winter Fruit Crisp
*If serving to someone with a gluten allergy make sure your ingredients are labeled gluten-free
Best served warm with vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt.
The entire dish can be made ahead of time and kept in refrigerator until ready to bake; may require extra cooking time if cold

 

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Mixed Berry Sauce

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I’ve been wanting to make a variation of this sauce for a while now:  something that would take a scoop of vanilla ice cream to the next level (because let’s face it, vanilla will never be chocolate), add texture and flavor to a slice of basic angel food cake, or be so pretty you want to put it on top of everything.

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This Mixed Berry Sauce is made with blackberries, raspberries and blueberries.  It has a wonderful balance of sweet and tart as well as a lovely texture from the slightly decomposed berries.  Last weekend I served the sauce alongside my banana cheesecake and it was a huge hit.

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It was so easy to make that I will definitely make it again.  Whip it up and take it with you to a barbeque  to serve with store-bought pound cake (I won’t tell) and vanilla ice cream.  Make it Saturday morning and pour it over fluffy pancakes or even greek yogurt.

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Start by combining mixed berries, sugar and lemon juice on medium heat over the stove

berries with sugar and lemon juice

Stir occasionally and break down some of the larger berries with a spoon

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Continue until all berries are slightly soft and a juice begins to form

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Add cornstarch and stir in quickly

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Turn the heat up to high and stir constantly until sauce reaches desired thickness

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Mixed Berry Sauce
 
Easy Mixed Berry Sauce made with blackberries, raspberries and blueberries.
Author:
Recipe type: Dessert
Makes: ~2 cups of sauce
Ingredients
  • 2 cups mixed berries (frozen or fresh)
  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice (or up to half a lemon to taste)
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
  1. Start by combining berries, sugar and lemon juice on medium heat over the stove
  2. Stir occasionally and break down some of the larger berries with a spoon
  3. Continue until all berries are slightly soft and a juice begins to form
  4. Add cornstarch and stir in quickly
  5. Turn the heat up to high and stir constantly until sauce reaches desired thickness
  6. Store in refrigerator up to 1 week
Notes
Adapted from Serndipity Sundaes

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What would you do with this sauce? Drinking it IS an option;-)

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Blueberry Peanut Butter

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Recently I discovered my love for blueberries and peanut butter.  Really, I love anything with peanut butter, especially chocolate, but the combination of blueberries and peanut butter is taking a new place in my heart.

One of my favorite snacks is a cup of fresh juicy blueberries topped with a spoonful of peanut butter.  Sometimes I warm it up so the blueberries burst and the peanut butter melts all over them.  Think it sounds weird? Try it.  The other thing I like to do is top toast with peanut butter and blueberries.  This is so much better than peanut butter and jelly!

Unfortunately, until summer starts, it is hard to find good fresh blueberries that don’t cost a gazillion dollars.  To satisfy my cravings, I made a batch of Blueberry Peanut Butter.

This peanut butter is healthy but creamy and delicious with a wonderful blueberry flavor.  You could put it on a sandwich but I have to admit I’ve been eating it by the spoonful straight out of the jar.

Making your own peanut butter could not be easier.  All you have to do is run the ingredients through a food processor.ingredients 1

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Blueberry Peanut Butter

Yield: Makes 1 1/3 cup peanut butter or ~21 tablespoons

Ingredients

  • 2 cups honey roasted peanuts
  • 2/3 cup dried blueberries (unsweetened)
  • 2 tablespoons chia seeds
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • up to 1/2 teaspoon salt

Cooking Directions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor for about 5 minutes; scrape the sides every minute or two, until mixture is smooth and creamy
  2. Taste and add salt if needed; run food processor for another 30 seconds
  3. Store in a leftover nut butter jar or tupperware container at room temperature for up to a month

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What do you like to combine with peanut butter?