What are you baking? July 2025

My non-jam faves:

  1. sour cherry-pistachio crisp
  2. sour cherry slab pie (I sometimes scale it down to my smallest pan, an eighth)
  3. apricot pistachio bars
  4. Erin McDowell’s black raspberry chiffon pie from “The Book on Pie”
  5. This simple raspberry buttermilk cake - just use the black raz instead
  6. King Arthur’s blueberry buckle, which @MunchkinRedux introduced me to and it replaced my previous favorite blueberry cake
  7. This fresh and punchy blueberry pie filling, which you can either put into a pie crust, or spoon a tart shell (also came to me via @MunchkinRedux ) or over cheesecake bars (as I just did)

Personally I would freeze some cherries and blueberries; both freeze very well. I spread mine on a single layer on a parchment-lined cookie sheet, freeze quickly like that, then scoop the frozen berries into storage containers for long-term storage (I have a FoodSaver but you don’t need to vac-seal them if you don’t have one.)

LMK if you want ice cream recipes using these fruits.

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