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33 Blackberry Recipes for Summer's Best Desserts, Drinks, and More

These luscious tarts, cobblers, and cocktails are worth any thorns you might encounter in the blackberry patch.
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Truly great blackberries are fleeting, so you need to be ready with blackberry recipes on hand. Whether you find the berries at your local farmers market or happen upon a tangle of vines while you're out on a walk, the best move is to get them home, get them washed, and get them into one of these crumbles, crisps, icebox cakes, or drinks as quickly as possible. Below you'll find our favorite ways to bake (or no-bake!) with summer's most flavorful berries, including cooling ice pops, smoothies, and granitas, plus easy, picnic-friendly turnovers and more.

  • A blackberry pie with a latticetopped crust in a pie dish with a slice cut out.
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    Blackberry Pie With Lattice Crust

    If this lattice-topped pie isn’t one of the showstopping-est blackberry recipes you’ve ever seen, we don’t know what is. Serve it at absolutely every summer occasion.

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    Blackberry-Cucumber Mule

    This drink is easy going; use gin or vodka along with the cucumbers and mint, and sub in raspberries if you've exhausted your blackberry stash.

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    Summer Berry-Coconut Milk Ice Pops

    Store bought ice pops are never as good as the homemade version, especially when you're talking about this easy recipe for creamy, dreamy, fruity coconut milk pops with a mix of summer berries (blackberries plus blueberries and strawberries, too) and a touch of cardamom. It's one of those dessert recipes that's ideal for serving at an outdoor brunch on a hot July day.

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    Blackberry Cobbler

    A classic summer dessert, this easy recipe is so much more than the sum of its parts.

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    Blackberry Icebox Cake

    This is the no-bake blackberry dessert that you'll have on repeat all summer long. Just layer ripe berries, blackberry jam, whipped cream, and vanilla wafers in a bowl, and chill for 24 hours before flipping it over to serve.

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    Plum-Blackberry Streusel Pie

    Beneath a crumbly streusel topping lies a sleek, inky jumble of bright, tangy plums and deep, earthy blackberries on top of an all-butter pie crust. A combination of cornstarch and tapioca in the filling helps to keep the colors of the fruit true and to set up their juices nicely without becoming too thick. This is a blackberry pie you'll want to make again and again. 

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  • Photo by Marcus Nilsson, Prop Styling by Amy Wilson, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
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    Peach Lassi Sorbet With Crushed Blackberries

    The secret to this sorbet's ultra-smooth texture? A touch of vodka in the mix, which keeps large ice crystals from forming.

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    Blackberry Cobbler Maguire

    This dessert starts with biscuit-like dough that gets rolled out, scattered with juicy blackberries, and then spiraled into a log. Could you eat a serving for breakfast with a dollop of yogurt? Absolutely.

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    Glazed Blueberry-Blackberry Turnovers

    Blueberries and blackberries bring out the best in each other, especially when hidden in the pockets of these hand pies, which are glazed after baking.

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    Plum Berry Crisp

    Is it even summer if you haven't made a berry crisp yet? This version is as simple as it gets: ripe berries, with only as much brown sugar as they need, baked until oozy and topped with a mix of rolled oats, all purpose flour, butter, light brown sugar, and salt. Vanilla ice cream is optional, but recommended.

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    Chia-Berry Shake

    This milkshake-like berry freeze gets its creaminess from chia and avocado. If you use fresh berries, you may want to add a few ice cubes to get the drink nice and chilly.

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  • Romulo Yanes
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    Blackberry Financiers

    These teeny cakes feature the toasty flavor of brown butter and almonds, plus a dusting of powdered sugar. Though they're cooked in a muffin tin, they're much more sophisticated than your average cupcake, and the total time is just 45 minutes. (20 minutes of prep time, so they're quick enough to make on a weeknight.)

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  • Marcus Nilsson
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    Blackberry Granita

    There's nothing as cooling as granita, and this one is more flavorful than most, thanks to the combination of puréed blackberries with crème de cassis.

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    Blackberry-Vinegar Caramel Sauce

    This revelatory sauce starts with a dry caramel, meaning no water is added to the sugar. It will take on color quickly and is less likely to crystallize.

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    Blackberry, Lemon, and Gingersnap Cheesecake Pudding

    Layers of tangy lemon curd made with fresh lemon juice, limoncello-spiked berry compote, mascarpone whipped cream, and grocery store gingersnaps come together beautifully in this dessert. It's blackberry cheesecake—but easier and better-tasting.

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  • Alison Miksch
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    Balsamic-Blackberry Crème Brûlée

    This tangy brûlée is mostly plain Greek yogurt, mixed with sour cream and piled over vinegar-macerated blackberries. You can add more berries over the caramelized sugar top.

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