Baking with Blueberries

Have you found yourself with too many blueberries on hand? Yeah, that was me this week. IS me I should say because I still have a bunch left.

And when I say too many I don't mean that in a "bad" way. It's just tricky to use up a lot of them before they go bad, and blueberries going bad, now THAT would be the bad thing.

So the other day I found myself with an overstock of blueberries…

What happened is we bought one big pack at Costco and then we had to quickly stop at Sobeys and grab something where my husband picked up another pack, not realizing we already had one from Costco. So now here we are LOTS of these sweet little blue morsels. 

Since then we've been putting them in everything. Blueberries in our Sunday pancakes, in our yogurt, in our Shakeology, in my late night cereal snack (ooopsss), in this morning's oatmeal. And I have a blueberry lemon loaf baking in the oven right now to take to a friend's for afternoon tea ;) Keeping my fingers crossed it turns out well, haha.

That pretty much took care of ONE PACK! I still have another one to dig into. I'm thinking another batch of pancakes to freeze to pull out for quick snack or breakfast. I may also do a baked oatmeal with them. 

Now all these blue buddies wouldn't be so bad either if I hadn't also grabbed a thing of strawberries and raspberries!! I observed yesterday that I can tell when the fruit season shifts as I have next to no apples and pears on my counter but my fridge is jam packed with berries of all kinds. NOT complaining though as berries are super duper healthy and the kids and I love 'em. 

What are some of your favourite ways to use up extra fruit so it doesn't go bad? I do find that baking with it makes a great option but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

And in case you are interested here is my recipe for the blueberry the blueberry lemon loaf.

Blueberry Lemon Loaf

Mix together the dry ingredients

1 and 3/4 cup flour 

1/3 cup coconut sugar

3 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

zest of 1/2 lemon

Mix together the following wet ingredients

1 cup milk

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

Mix the wet and dry ingredients together

****When wet and dry ingredients are partially mixed add in 1/2 cup melted coconut oil****

Add in 1 cup blueberries

Place into a coconut oil greased loaf pan

Baked at 375' for approx 40 minutes

If you like you can also make a super easy glaze that soaks into the top by mixing the juice of one lemon with 1 tbsp coconut sugar, then lightly pour over the top while still warm. 

Now I better go check on that loaf, it smells pretty yummy from my spot at the table.