All year, I dream for blueberry season. We try to go U-Pick blueberry picking at least twice a year.
This year, we were so eager, we went twice in one week.
Despite all our rain, the blueberries are slowly ripening. They are so big - maybe due to our above normal rainfall.
How to tell a ripe blueberry? It's easy. The color should be just like the above blueberries, with a whitish coating. After you've been picking a few minutes, your hands feel a little waxy.
Every year, on my blog, I try for at least one recipe.
Here are some of my previous blueberry posts.
Blueberry Clafoutis
This one has a recipe for blueberry muffins made with cashew almond milk.
Dump Cake made with blueberries
A slightly different dump cake made with blueberries
This year, I decided on a slightly different dump cake made with blueberries.
Many dump cake recipes (I have a cookbook full of them!) call for ingredients like butter, but, as a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, I use variations of low fat versions.
Blueberry and Lemon Dump Cake
Pour the can of cherry soda over the cake mix/blueberries.
Bake at 350 degrees F for around 35-43 minutes, or until it starts to brown.
What could be easier?
This won't be to everyone's taste but if it is to your taste, enjoy!
Easy! I have never heard of True Lemon. I looked it up, since I didn't even know what it was! The website shows my local stores carrying it, but it doesn't even look the least bit familiar. My blueberries mostly shriveled up in the heat a few weeks ago. I'm hoping the bushes make it.
ReplyDeleteIn our supermarket, they are in the baking aisle near the sweeteners. There is also a True Lime.
DeleteYou have had such horrible heat where you live; I hope your garden hangs in there.
Delete...isn't there a better name than dump that could be applied here?
ReplyDeleteWell...yes, but that term is the only way I've heard these type of baked desserts described.
DeleteThe cake looks delicious!! Are blueberries easy to pick? Do they squish easily? Obviously I've never picked them, lol, or even seen them grow "out in the wild."
ReplyDeletebetty
They are very easy to pick. Bushes are upright, no thorns, and it's (somewhat) easy to tell when the berries are ripe. Look for the powdery blue. The best part is, they will last a long time in your fridge, if you can't eat them all at once. Or they freeze nicely. They don't squish as easily as raspberries do.
DeleteI haven't baked for ages. But a dump cake sound good.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Stay safe too, Dora!
DeleteEeee! Something to try with my very first growing of my own blueberries!!!
ReplyDeleteThis won't be anywhere near as good as one of your pies, Diane, but it sure is easy to make!
DeleteLooks good.
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