This Apple Blueberry Brown Butter Bliss is a cross between a fruit cobbler and a cake. It’s loaded with fruit on the bottom, but some of the topping seeps down between the fruit. The sugar sprinkled on top before baking gives it a nice crunch, and is the perfect addition to this old fashioned dessert.
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I have been making lots of things with apples lately, but one of my favorites is this Apple Blueberry Brown Butter Bliss.
I received the sweetest email from a reader, Cheryl from NC. She told me how much she liked my blog and shared a few of her favorite recipes with me. One of her favorites was Browned Butter Bliss with Plums from Dinner With Julie, Sounds heavenly doesn’t it, so of course I needed to give it a try.
Also included in this post is a Recipe Round Up. I’ve joined a fun group of bloggers to put together a roundup of recipes on the first day of every month. This month we’re sharing Brown Butter Recipes.
Costco had some big beautiful blueberries, so I decided to make a Blueberry Bliss instead of a plum bliss. I was afraid blueberries might be a bit too juicy for this recipe and make the top soggy, so I used the technique that Cook’s Illustrated uses in their blueberry pie recipe.
I cooked half of the blueberries to create a sauce, then added the remaining blueberries and apples. It worked perfectly.
Once you have the fruit cooked, you brown the butter. Browning it gives it sort of a nutty flavor. Watch it closely so you don’t burn it. Then you combine the topping ingredients and pour them over the fruit and finish the top with a sprinkle of sugar.
My family was blissfully happy with this dessert. Serve it hot with a scoop of vanilla ice are. Thanks Cheryl for recommending it.
Be sure and check out all of the delicious brown butter recipes this month below.
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Apple Blueberry Brown Butter Bliss
Ingredients
Filling
- 2 cups fresh blueberries divided
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- Pinch of salt
- 1 apple peeled and diced
Topping
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon sugar in the raw
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and butter a pie plate.
- Add 1 cup of blueberries, ⅓ cup sugar, lemon juice, and salt to a saucepan and cook over medium heat until blueberries burst and mixture is thickened.
- Add remaining 1 cup of blueberries, apple, and lemon zest. Stir to combine. Spread into the pie plate.
- Prepare Topping: Melt the butter in a small saucepan and keep cooking it, swirling the pan occasionally, for about 5 minutes or until it turns golden. Pour into a bowl. Stir ¾ cup of sugar into the butter, then the eggs, then the flour and cinnamon.
- Pour over the fruit and sprinkle with raw sugar. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until golden and crusty, and the juices ooze from around the edges.
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or thick vanilla yogurt.
Notes
Brown Butter Recipes You’ll Love
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned Butter Cauliflower
Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting
Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Brown Butter
Butter Pecan Blondies with Brown Butter
Garlic Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes
Apple Blueberry Bliss
Brown Butter Parmesan Corn
Brown Butter Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce
Skillet Brown Butter Carrots
Dark Chocolate Brown Butter Brownies
Browned Butter Salted Caramel Sauce
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SLCFoodie
This looks amazing! I can imagine it tastes blissful!
edmontonjb
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Mimi
Great dessert. My dream bed is located anywhere my husband is. Yes he snores, but imagine how lonely the the silence would be.
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I wish my dream bed was located in a warm climate near a sandy beach where the sun always shines!
Memória
I would love an apple peeler. Even though I made a cobbler recently, I'm craving another one. Apple and blueberry sound great!
Anonymous
Barbara, CPU problems have kept me away since I first emailed you, so what perfect timing to find this on my return! And how beautifully browned and delicious it looks! My last had plums, nectarines, an apple & strawberries, all w-a-y past their prime, but it was still delicious! So glad you liked the recipe. As for my dream bed, it would be as soft and cozy as my last hospital bed, only much larger and located on an island somewhere, in a bedroom of wood and stone, with a WIDE view of the ocean in front of me, a small waterfall garden beside me, and nothing, not even glass, separating me from the earth, wind and sky! 75 degrees, a light, ocean-scented breeze, BLUE sky spreading forever before me . . . heaven! I saw a room like that once, and it has been my dream ever since.
Thanks for the mention and your great recipes. Tried your chocolate toffee cherry cookies this week (with mixed berries). Mmmmmmmm! Cheryl from NC
Lisa
My dream bed would be a platform bed.
Mary Ellen
My dream bed– one that would be so comfy I would sleep more than a few hours a night! Love the look of a Highboy bed-
Karen
My dream bed would be a mahogany four poster bed.
Meena
My dream bed would be a platform bed with a cappuccino leather headboard…something similar to what I saw on the CSN space…LOVE the giveaway…Thanxxx!!1
Lynn
Your dessert looks scrumptious. Love that apple peeler, too. Hmm, my dream bed would be a soft, cushy mattress that makes you feel like you're sleeping on feathers. And linens that smell fresh and good, like roses. Or lemons 🙂 You do have a wonderful blog, by the way! There's always something interesting cooking over here.
Nicole-Lynn
Ohh what you made looks amazing! Great giveaway…
My dream bed is a sleigh bed with egyptian cotton sheets in all white! Very soothing and calm 🙂
I would love to win this giveaway to get the Mikasa Cake Server set and some chamapgne flutes for our wedding. We're on a tight budget and paying for the wedding ourselves so winning would be such a blessing!
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Pixie
My dresm bed is located in Maui! Fav vacation of all time!
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Barbara
That's a bliss of a recipe all right, Barbara! Yum.
I love my bed right now because I need a nice firm mattress. But I would love to have Pratesi sheets and someone to change them EVERY SINGLE day!
Kai
My friend, Cherie, of Passing Thru' told me to come and check out your blog! OH, BOY! I LOVE IT! MY dream bed? One I could USE. I cannot sleep lying down because of a shattered knee cap that's unfixable. So I'd use the $60 for something ELSE. Still, how fun! And I am bookmarking this blog 'cause it's terrific! YUMMMMMMMMY recipes! THANKS for those!
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'Kay… My dream bed would be a King Size Sleigh Bed with the highest thread count sheets you can buy, top of the line feather pillows(at least 4!), a beautiful comforter set & matching wedge so that I could read in bed in pure comfort!
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msmeanie
Yum..browned butter with apples sounds so good. Love that curly apple too. If that doesn't make a kid eat apples, I don't know what will.
My dream bed would be a super comfortable full-sized all to myself. Yum.