Blackberries

An easy blackberry sangria made with fresh blackberries for the perfect summer sangria!

This easy lemon blackberry layer cake is bursting with fresh blackberries and a sweet lemon flavor. Topped with a homemade lemon cream cheese frosting, this light and citrusy cake is perfect for spring and summer!

1 (9-inch) springform pan

This old fashioned recipe is one your family will love. Topped with ice cream or whipped cream this is a real treat! 

Looking for an elegant, delicious, easy dessert? This one-bowl, no-mixer Vanilla Bean Cake with Blackberry Buttercream ticks all three boxes!

This rich, silky, red wine mushroom sauce recipe with fresh herbs and shallots is perfect for steak, filet mignon, roast beef dinners, pork chops, and even lamb!

Put these mini cocktail meatballs on toothpicks for an appetizer everyone loves! Made in the slow cooker, these ground chicken meatballs use both grape jelly and BBQ sauce for terrific flavor in every bite. Slightly sticky, deliciously smoky, and so satisfying! Recipe yields about 60 mini meatballs.

These triple berry crumble bars are summer dessert perfection! Jammy raspberries, blueberries and blackberries, over a vanilla lemon shortbread cookie crust, topped with a thick layer of buttery shortbread crumble.

A delicious grilled cheese sandwich featuring creamy brie, tart blackberries, and a hint of balsamic glaze, all nestled between artisan bread.

Easy jam recipe to whip up when you have some fresh blackberries!

After picking strawberries for the first time, I developed this fruity, spreadable butter. Try making other fruit spreads using raspberries or blackberries, or a seedless jam like apricot—my favorite. —Julie Herrera-Lemler, Rochester, Minnesota

Light and airy Blackberry Banana Oat Muffins are the perfect way to start your day, with hearty oats, sweet ripe bananas and tangy fresh blackberries. These healthy oatmeal muffins are perfect for a grab-and-go breakfast or morning snack, making busy mornings just a little easier.

This yummy Triple Berry Cobbler will give you a delicious way to use your raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries.

When your refrigerator becomes the key to making an amazing dessert, you have to give credit where credit is due. This palace-worthy, Fridge Queen Cake is a royal way to turn any day into a bright, summer-fresh experience! This slice of majesty is packed with juicy, ripe blackberries smoothly blended with tangy cream cheese and cool, creamy whipping cream, all layered and reigning atop a sweet, crunchy-soft graham cracker crust. Just pop this exquisite Fridge Queen Cake into the icebox (aka your freezer) for a bit and create a glorious new monarchy of deliciousness all for yourself! All hail the Queen!

Oh yes, this is what summer is all about; taking fresh blackberries and transforming them into these Blackberry Crumble Bars! The crusts are crunchy and buttery, while the crumble on top is packed with cinnamon spice and almond flavor, both sandwiching a jammy, sweet, and tart blackberry mixture in between. You will basically feel like the season is dancing on your tongue with each bite! Your summer heart will melt for these Blackberry Crumble Bars!

Chef Bill Smith of Chapel Hill's venerable Crook's Corner, saw our strawberry buttermilk sherbet recipe in the May 2008 edition of the magazine, swapping blackberries for the strawberries and was so delighted by the results he put it on the menu while the issue was still on stands.