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Blueberry Bars

  • Author: Sylvie Taylor
  • Prep Time: 25 minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
  • Yield: Serves 16
  • Category: Bars & Slices

Description

Brown butter shortbread encases these Blueberry Streusel Bars recipe allows beautiful tart and summery blueberries to shine through and make for a great summer treat.


Ingredients

210 grams / 1 1/2 cups bread flour (see note)
20 grams / 2 tablespoons corn starch
50 grams / 1/2 cup confectioner’s/icing sugar
170 grams / 6 ounces brown butter, chilled and cubed
450 grams / 1 pound fresh blueberries
40 grams / 3 tablespoons superfine/caster sugar
8 grams / 2 tablespoons corn starch


Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350F and line a bar tin with greaseproof paper.
  2. Place the flour, corn starch and confectioner’s sugar in a bowl and stir to combine.
  3. Make a well in the center and add the brown butter.
  4. Combine with a pastry cutter or knife until the mixture resembles course breadcrumbs.
  5. Pour two thirds of the crumb mixture into the base of a slice tin and flatten down tightly.
  6. Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly golden on top. Remove and set aside.
  7. For the blueberries, place the fruit, sugar and corn starch into a bowl and stir together. Set aside.
  8. Spoon the blueberries evenly over the base.
  9. Top with clumps of the crumble mixture.
  10. Bake for 50 minutes until golden on top and lightly bubbling.
  11. Remove and allow to cool fully or even cool and refrigerate for 1 hour to set fully.
  12. Slice into even bars and serve.

Notes

Browning your butter: Check out this detailed guide for browning your butter which includes a video - the key here is allowing your browned butter to come to room temperature so it is set like regular butter.

Fresh versus frozen: So fresh blueberries will hold their shape best and thicken into a jam type setting in the filling of these bars so definitely recommend stirring frozen blueberries through the sugar and corn starch and letting it sit for the sugar to have a little effect for 10 minutes.

Type of flour: TIf you live in the UK (as I do) or do not know the protein in your plain flour where you live then I recommend you do a little research. In the UK, due to the lower protein in plain flour which means it doesn't hold up as well as bread flour for a recipe like this. UK bread flour has almost exactly the same level of protein as US plain flour and this affects how easy it is to handle and how the baked bars will turn out.

Recipe by Roamingtaste


Nutrition

  • Calories: 84 calories per serve

Keywords: blueberry baking, streusel recipe