Blackberry Dumplings are a simple summer berry dessert consisting of steamed dumplings in a blackberry sauce made quickly on the stove top.
Blackberry Dumplings
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Blackberry dumplings are my recipe of the day with Summer Dessert Week. I am doing two recipes- this one and pineapple-orange sherbet popsicles on Wednesday.
Dumplings aka Slump or Grunt
Blackberry dumplings are the Appalachian or southern name for what is often called a blackberry slump or a blackberry grunt. But who can keep track of what these names are for? And if you look them up you will see things that vary from being a baked biscuit top cobbler to a cake to this.
And what this is, essentially, is a simple blackberry sauce topped with a sweetened dumpling dough and steamed. It all comes together very quickly. Don’t worry about the steaming- this is made much the same way as you would with drop batter dumplings as per chicken and dumplings.
Easy as Pie?
I’d say this is easy as pie to make but in fact, it is quite a lot easier than pie. No rolling out of the crust and all that crap.
The dumplings steam and get tender, just as savory ones do. But rather than a chicken gravy, this has a sweet fresh blackberry sauce and with the color that splashes or seeps, you may like to invert them as I did for uniform color. This makes them look like huge blackberries, after all.
The Finishing Touch
Serve this up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or maybe some whipped cream or cool whip and you are set to go. You might even think of topping with a splash of heavy cream and having it for breakfast. You can do that, you know.
However you serve yours, it is the perfect sweet taste of summer, being my favorite berry after all.
Summer Dessert Week
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Blackberry Dumplings
Blackberry Dumplings
Ingredients
Blackberry Mixture
- 18 ounces fresh ripe blackberries
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup water
Dumpling Batter
- 1 cup Bisquick baking mix
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/2 cup milk
Other
- Ice cream or Whipped Cream optional
Instructions
- Mix together dumpling batter and set aside.
- Whisk together the sugar, orange juice and water over low heat until fully dissolved.
- Add rinsed blackberries and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer.
- Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of batter onto fruit and cover with a lid.
- Cook without stirring or lifting lid for twenty minutes, then remove from heat.
- Serve dumplings inverted in a bowl, topped with blackberry sauce and either ice cream or whipped cream on the side.
Notes
My friend Kim generously shares her bounty of blackberries each year. I know what I’m making with them this year now.
We’re getting black raspberries soon. They are a little late this year.