Cool Thing #1

Blackberry Lemonade

Krystle says she made this batch by taking one cup fresh blackberries, blending them on medium, straining the juice, adding lemonade to taste.  

Chill.   Serve on ice for best taste and add fresh blackberries if desired.

Cool Thing #2

Blackberry Cherry Tarts

Lizzy reminds us this a "warm" cool thing.   This one is made with a homemade butter, cream cheese & flour crust.   The filling starts with one cup of fresh blackberries and one cup of fresh, pitted cherries.  Cook down and cool to room temperature.   Mix in fresh, whole blackberries.   Roll out pastry crust in squares approximately 4" x 4".     Fill each tart with 1/2 cup of filling.   Bake at 350 for twenty minutes.

Cool Thing #3

Blackberry Lattice Top Pie

Filling:  mix five cups of fresh blackberries, one cup of sugar, three tablespoons of corn starch.   Mix a whole egg together and wash the bottom of the pie shell. Pour into pie shell and top.   Egg wash the top pastry and dot lattice holes with butter.  Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.     Serve with ice cream.   

Cool Thing #4

Blackberry Smoothy with Whipped Cream

 

Cool Thing #5

Eat them.
Look at them?
("They're pretty," Krystle insists.)

Here's a few cool links on blackberries.   Check out the size of the blackberries grown at Happy Berry Farm (2nd link).  Incredible!

PickYourOwn.com's Blackberry Recipes

The Happy Berry's Berry Recipe List
(Lot's of Recipes!)

Southern Grace Farm's
Blackberry Recipe List