On August 31st we are sipping Pimms in the garden and planning BBQs, but on the stroke of midnight, September dawns and mince pies appear instantly on supermarket shelves. We seem to skip straight from summer to Christmas, missing out the fabulous season of autumn. Pumpkin pies, conkers, dewy cobwebs, fresh mornings, gingerbread, cinder toffee! #dontskipautumn campaign starts here! Picking blackberries is one of the joys of early autumn. What’s not to love about free food? (ok, the nettle stings and bramble scratches, but it’s worth it). Once you’ve picked the berries, give them a good wash, and then you can portion them out and freeze them, or use them straight away in one of these recipes.
Many raspberry recipes work well with blackberries too, and they go well with milk chocolate or apples. So instead of raspberry and white chocolate muffins, you could do blackberry and milk chocolate.
A classic choice is apple and blackberry crumble. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/crunchyappleandblack_7679
You could also do a cobbler: https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/blackberry-and-apple-cobbler/
Or a pie. You could mix with blackcurrants. https://www.everynookandcranny.net/blackcurrant-plate-pie/
Hot blackberry sponge: https://susiesrecipes.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/jamie-olivers-spotted-blackberry-sponge/ (you could make individual ones, as steamed sponge puddings)
This raspberry bake works just as well with blackberries: Raspberry TrayBakewell
This take on a bread and butter pudding is easy and delicious: Blackberry and chocolate brioche pudding
An easy traybake: Blackberry crumble bars
If you don’t want to make jam (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/blackberry-jam), you could do a chutney: 62. and 63. Apple and blackberry chutney, and Chocolate fudge
Swap out the blueberries for blackberries in pancakes: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/american-blueberry-pancakes