Fresh Blueberry Crostada
From luisascatering 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 6
I had some fresh blueberries and half a package of cream cheese so this dessert was born from that. This is a rich and delicious pastry dough. An added bonus -- it's also EASY :-)
Ingredients
- For Filling: shopping list
- 2 pints of blueberries shopping list
- 1/3 cup sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- zest of one lemon shopping list
- Rich cream cheese Dough: shopping list
- 1⁄2 cup (4 ounces) chilled cream cheese, cut into 6 pieces shopping list
- 1⁄2 cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces shopping list
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour, plus extra for shaping shopping list
- 1⁄4 cup sugar shopping list
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt shopping list
- large egg yolk, lightly beaten for brushing rim of the crust shopping list
- Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, to serve shopping list
How to make it
- Makes 1 large free-form tart crust or 4 small tart crusts.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place the cream cheese, butter, 1 cup flour, salt, and sugar in a food processor. Process until the dough just comes together. It will be a little sticky. Refrigerate the crust for 1 hour or wrap the baking sheet in plastic and refrigerate it for up to 24 hours until you are ready to use it.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a round baking sheet/pizza pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- On a floured surface, roll pastry out to about a 12 inch round. Place on parchment lined baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, combine blueberries with sugar, lemon zest, flour and cinnamon. Mound berry mixture in center of the pastry. Fold edges over of pastry over berries, pleating to make a circle. Brush with egg (and sprinkle with sugar, if desired).
- Bake for about 20-30 minutes, or until crust is golden and the berries begin to release their juice. Let cool for 5 - 10 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.
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I have blueberries. guess what I am doing this weekend. Wonderful!
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This looks so rustic and delicious! Love the cream cheese dough here! Bookmarked and thanks for the great post!
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in Clayton loved it
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Yum! Yum! Yum! Stopped making this when we lost all our blueberry bushes, but this has inspired me to resurrect this wsonderful treat. Thanks for the recipe and the incentive. 5, again.
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