Blueberry Caves Recipe
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30 minutes cook time
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Easy
These are Swedish blabarsgrottor – blueberry ‘grottos’ or caves. Don’t be fooled, they look like cupcakes - but they’re more similar to a shortbread, while a little softer. You don’t get a ‘snap’ but more of a soft crumble. My mum loves to grate white chocolate over them when they’re fresh from the oven. Or serve them ‘grandma style’ and put a little icing sugar and water in the natural jam dip after they’ve cooled, which hardens and makes a crisp coating.
Ingredients Serves: 22
- 270g plain flour
- 90g caster sugar
- 1tsp baking powder
- 2tsp vanilla extract
- 200g salted butter
- 100g blueberry jam
- white chocolate (optional)
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- mini cupcake cases
- baking tray
- cooling rack
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl.
- Cut the butter into cubes and quickly mix it into the dry ingredients, along with the vanilla extract. Leave to rest in the fridge for 15-30 minutes so the dough is easier to handle.
- Roll the dough out into walnut sized balls, and place them in mini cupcake cases on a baking tray.
- Make a little dimple with your thumb and fill with jam.
- Bake in the oven for 10-13 minutes and leave to cool on a rack.
- If you want, you can grate over some white chocolate when they come out of the oven.
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About the author
Kristin is the Purchasing and Buying assistant at Sous Chef. She has several chefs and excellent home cooks in her family, and grew up in the kitchen in Sweden. Cooking and baking with her mum happened pretty much every day. Cinnamon rolls were always stocked up in the freezer, and if they were running low, more baking had to be done. Kristin always loves learning more about food and ingredients to continue improving her skills.
