{"id":585,"date":"2019-07-24T04:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2019-07-24T04:33:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:33:02","slug":"blueberry-crumb-bars-with-graham-cracker-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/24\/blueberry-crumb-bars-with-graham-cracker-crust\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Crumb Bars With Graham Cracker Crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blueberry Bars with graham cracker crust,\u00a0a\u00a0perfect combination of blueberry bites packed with flavour and crunch. Perhaps an easier version of blueberry pie?<\/p>\n<p>Recently my husband challenged me to make a pie. As much as I love baking, I must admit, I never made a pie before. Partly because I never liked pies as they are my least favourite dessert. \u00a0For someone who never made a pie before, I think I should leave the pie making business for another day (sorry hubby).<\/p>\n<p>For now, since blueberries are in season, I have decided to take advantage and make Blueberry Crumble Bars instead.\u00a0 I call it my &#8220;Bar Pie&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h6>Ingredients for this recipe:<\/h6>\n<h6>For Blueberry sauce:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>4 cups of blueberries<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon cornstarch<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon of lemon zest<\/li>\n<li>2-3 teaspoon of sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>For Crust:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups of graham cracker<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup of salted butter (melted) pour little at the time, you might not need all the butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>For Crumble:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup graham cracker<\/li>\n<li>3 table spoon of all purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>3-4 tablespoon of butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup of brown sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to make the blueberry sauce: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add blueberries, corn starch, fresh lemon juice, zest, and sugar in a small pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Once blueberries are soft and saucy take off heat and let it set.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-591 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-sauce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-sauce.jpg 780w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-sauce-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-sauce-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to make the crust: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mix melted butter with graham flour and press against the pie pan to make a shell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-592 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham-crust1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham-crust1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham-crust1-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/graham-crust1-768x655.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to make the crumble: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mix butter, graham flour, all purpose flour and brown sugar together.<\/p>\n<p>Once the blueberry sauce is cooler, transfer over the crust and cover with crumble. \u00a0Bake the blueberry crumble bar , AKA &#8220;my easy pie&#8221;,\u00a0 in 350 degrees celsius oven for 20-30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-593 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-crumble-bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-crumble-bars.jpg 780w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-crumble-bars-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-crumble-bars-768x737.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let it set to cool and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-588 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/easy-blueberry-bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/easy-blueberry-bars.jpg 780w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/easy-blueberry-bars-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/easy-blueberry-bars-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-589 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/super-easy-blueberry-bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/super-easy-blueberry-bars.jpg 780w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/super-easy-blueberry-bars-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/super-easy-blueberry-bars-768x826.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7989057502MsoNormal\">These blueberries are from <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiscolebrookfarming.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rai&#8217;s Colebrook Farming<\/a><\/span>. I had the pleasure to chat with Mandeep and learned a lot about blueberries. She gave me a crash course on how blueberries are grown, what types, locally grown vs organic, rules and regulations and how to properly freeze blueberries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7989057502MsoNormal\">I always thought to wash blueberries first and then lay them on baking sheet and freeze. \u00a0Mandeep\u00a0suggested that blueberries freeze much better if they are \u00a0<strong>not wash.<\/strong>\u00a0Just store them in ziplock bags and freeze. \u00a0They will not stick together during freezing process. \u00a0Wash after when you are using them. \u00a0I will definitely try her way next time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, ask Mandeep <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rai.colebrookfarming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rai.colebrookfarming<\/a><\/span>\u00a0, she is the wealth of knowledge when it comes to blueberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueberry Bars with graham cracker crust,\u00a0a\u00a0perfect combination of blueberry bites packed with flavour and crunch. Perhaps an easier version of blueberry pie? Recently my husband challenged me to make a pie. As much as I love baking, I must admit, I never made a pie before. Partly because I never liked pies as they are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sweet-tooth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blueberry-bars-with-graham-crust.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Zgfc-9r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}