Chef John's Blackberry Buckle
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Cooking:
15 min.
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Servings per container:
8
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Ingredients for - Chef John's Blackberry Buckle

1. Fresh blackberries - 3 cups
2. White sugar - 2 tablespoons
3. Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
4. All-purpose flour - 1 ¼ cups
5. White sugar - ¾ cup
6. Almond meal - ½ cup
7. Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
8. Salt - ¼ teaspoon
9. Ground cinnamon - 1 pinch
10. Milk - 1 cup
11. Butter, divided - 7 tablespoons
12. Sliced almonds, or to taste - 3 tablespoons

How to cook deliciously - Chef John's Blackberry Buckle

1. Stage

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Stage

Stir blackberries, 2 tablespoons sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl; let rest, 15 to 20 minutes.

3. Stage

Whisk flour, 3/4 cup sugar, almond meal, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Stir milk into flour mixture until batter is just combined.

4. Stage

Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium-high heat; pour into the bottom of an 8x12-inch baking dish. Pour batter on top of melted butter and use a spatula to gently distribute batter without mixing it into butter, leaving a 1-inch butter border around the sides of the dish.

5. Stage

Scatter blackberries over the batter and spoon any accumulated blackberry juices over the top.

6. Stage

Bake buckle in the preheated oven until crisped and browned around the edges, about 1 hour.

7. Stage

Melt remaining butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir almonds in hot butter until golden brown and toasted, 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle toasted almonds over blackberry buckle and cool buckle to room temperature. Chef John