Wild Blueberry Pie with Shortbread Crust

This wild blueberry pie is topped with a brown sugar streusel (I do know, streusels are life!) and the shortbread crust is so wealthy and buttery!

I don’t know that there’s an enormous profit to me posting pie recipes each few months. Nobody appears to like pie precisely like me on-line. IRL? Sure, as a result of my persons are in reality “my folks” and so they get the pie love. Therefore why we’re pals. One particularly, Janelle, she simply will get me. We might be the perfect travel-to-eat companions. Clearly after I noticed her at a celebration holding a pie it was the primary one I needed to attempt. 

And that was the perfect thought. 

That is that pie. 

She is the genius that mixed a number of fantastic recipes from bloggers throughout the online to create the final blueberry crumble pie. And in case you even dared to disregard it, the streusel crumble on prime is essentially the most superb component of the present.

Truly, I believe Janelle hit gold by going for wild blueberries (most grocery shops now promote them within the freezer division) which rework this pie. That is certain to be considered one of your new favourite summer time desserts!

Components for Blueberry Pie

There are three elements to this recipe so it appears to be like like numerous substances however most of them overlap to it’s actually only a brief record. Here’s what you have to:

Shortbread Crust

• Flour: common all function
• Powdered Sugar: all of the sweetness with out the grainy texture of granulated sugar
• Butter: unsalted is most popular
• Vanilla: provides taste
• Almond Extract: provides taste
• Salt: enhances all of the flavors

Filling

• Wild Blueberries: you should use frozen if wanted
• Lemon Zest and Juice: recent is finest
• Sugar: common granulated, it balances the tartness of the berries
• Cornaby’s EZ Gel: thickens the filling
• Salt: enhances the sweetness

Streusel Topping

• Flour: all function
• Brown Sugar: provides richness and sweetness to the streusel crumble
• Sugar: a bit extra sweetness
• Salt: cuts the sweetness
• Butter: unsalted is most popular

Non-compulsory Glaze

• Powdered Sugar: provides sweetness to stability the acidity of the lemon juice
• Lemon Juice: have to be recent
• Milk: thins out the glaze a bit

The measurements for every ingredient may be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of the publish.

How one can Make Blueberry Pie with Shortbread Crust

If making a pie from scratch is intimidating to you, then this pie is for you as a result of it’s made with a easy shortbread crust. Listed below are the fundamental steps:

Crust

1. Mix all of the dry substances in a medium bowl.
2. Beat the butter in a big bowl till easy.
3. Add the dry substances and the vanilla and blend till properly blended.
4. Press dough right into a pie dish within the backside and up the perimeters. Poke with a fork and refrigerate.
5. Bake within the oven till evenly browned and let cool utterly.

Filling

1. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and EZ Gel.
2. Add all the opposite substances to a a sauce pan and warmth till effervescent. Stir within the sugar combination and blend till the sugar is dissolved and the blueberries are heated by way of.
3. Add the EZ gel a bit at a time till the blueberry pie filling reaches your required thickness.
4. Fill the pie shell to the brim and sprinkle with recent blueberries.

Streusel Topping

1. Whisk collectively all of the substances besides the butter in a medium bowl.
2. Drizzle the melted butter over the combination and blend collectively till it will get clumpy. Don’t over-mix it. You need the flour to be utterly absorbed however nonetheless clumpy (not a paste).
3. Cowl the pie with the streusel and bake. Let it cool utterly.

Glaze (Non-compulsory)

1. If you wish to add the glaze, whisk all of the substances collectively and drizzle over the cooled pie.

The brown sugar streusel topping is my favourite a part of this pie! Skipping a prime crust for that wealthy and crunchy topping is a present stopper!

These directions may be present in full element down beneath within the recipe card. You can even save and print the recipe from there.

What’s the Distinction Between Blueberries and Wild Blueberries?

Wild blueberries are smaller, sweeter, and tangier. General, they simply have extra taste. They’ve much less water content material and extra berry.

Can Common Blueberries Be Used?

Completely, however I critically really feel prefer it’s Russian roulette with the flavour. You simply by no means know what you’re going to get.

If you happen to can’t discover recent wild blueberries, you may normally discover frozen blueberries within the freezer part and so they work nice. Allow them to thaw utterly and drain extra juices.

Why is My Blueberry Pie Runny?

I’m going to be daring and say that you’ll not have a runny pie if you happen to use EZ Gel. It’s just about unimaginable.

More often than not a runny pie occurs due to thickener that you just use. It will possibly additionally occur if you happen to don’t bake your pie lengthy sufficient, don’t let the pie crust cool utterly or don’t use the right amount of substances.

If you happen to don’t have EZ Gel, however you can too use cornstarch, tapioca or flour, however I stand by Certain Gel as being the perfect pie filling sweetener.

Storing Blueberry Pie

Blueberry pie will maintain for as much as 2 days at room temperature or 4-5 days within the fridge. Cowl it with foil or plastic wrap.

This pie additionally freezes rather well. You possibly can freeze it earlier than of after baking it. Ensure it has cooled utterly, then wrap in it plastic wrap adopted by aluminum foil. It’s going to maintain for as much as 2 months.

The wild blueberries and the brown sugar streusel are the star of this simple selfmade blueberry pie recipe! It’s all encased in a buttery wealthy shortbread crust that is really easy to make you’re going to be dreaming about your subsequent slice! We now have reached pie perfection with this recipe! Carry on all of the recent fruit pies!

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