Blackberry Crunch Squares-New York City's Magnolia Bakery

While I love fruit and certainly dessert foods, I’m not the biggest fan of combining the two as I would much prefer to have them separately. Moreover, if it’s a matter of choosing between chocolate cake or cherry pie, I will always go for the non-fruit item. However, I finally found an exception to my peculiarity-blackberry crunch squares.

One day before I started work I was looking for a simple recipe to try out but more importantly, a recipe I had all the ingredients already on hand for. Although the original recipe called for raspberry preserves I only had blackberry but I think they were terrific (I’ve been on a blackberry kick ever since I made my griddled blackberry bread pudding a couple of weeks ago). The one caveat I have with the recipe is that I was left with a TON of topping (even after making only half the original recipe). Thankfully crumb topping keeps until I decide what to try to make with it.

These were sinful (you could really taste the butter crust and a certain Paula Deene would likely be so proud) and the first bite of the preserves filling really hits you (best described as taste sensory explosion in your mouth).

Even if you’re not the biggest fan of blackberries, any kind of preserves would be perfect to use.

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