This post is sponsored by the US Highbush Blueberry Council as an opportunity from the Mom It Forward Blogger Network.
Normally when I’m in the midst of a cold, cold January, blueberries are the furthest thing from my mind, but they’ve actually been on really good sales at my grocery store this week, plus I got a challenge to make a blueberry recipe from the US Highbush Blueberry Council! Challenge accepted. Of course, challenge accepted as long as the recipe is easy, like this easy blueberry tart. (It even has “easy” in the name.)
Image from Growing Up Gabel
Also, I already had all the ingredients on hand (besides the blueberries, which were easy to acquire, even in the dead of winter).
Now this is me we’re talking about, so you know I’m not going to make my own pie crust. And I ran into a slight problem with the pie crust I had…
Yeah, that baby was Best By December 29, 2013, so, like, a month ago. And it wasn’t frozen either. I just figured it would keep in my refrigerator, pretty much forever. But I unwrapped it and it didn’t stink, and I unrolled it and it didn’t look weird or crumble in my hands or anything, so I went ahead and used it. I know. I live on the edge.
So for the recipe, all you do is mix the blueberries with some simple ingredients…
… which makes them look like this:
I felt sort of bad coating them in sugar-sludge because they were so pretty before that, but I figured it would all look fine once it was baked.
A word to the wise: blueberries are very round and rolly. If, in the process of stirring them, one manages to leap out of the bowl, you may never find it. Or it may roll under the cabinet and you figure you’ll pick it up later, but then your dog eats it, and you have to run look up if blueberries are poisonous to dogs. (They’re not.)
Then you just stick them in the center of your crust and fold up the edges.
Annnd bake. You can do all sorts of stuff while your tart bakes for 55 minutes to an hour. Wink wink, nudge nudge. (What? I was talking about laundry and bathroom cleaning. That’s what I did.)
Mine leaked a little in the oven, but to be fair, if I’m somewhere hot for an hour, I leak a little, too. The leak did not affect the taste, and it tasted damn good, guys. I think blueberry tarts are going to be a winter staple around here, because they’re warm and comforting, and also because they make me forget that I will probably have to navigate around black ice on my commute tomorrow morning because it’s the freakin’ middle of winter.
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If you’re a blueberry lover like I am, you could win a $75 gift card just by showing the blueberry love. In order to win, you must:
- follow Blueberry411 on Twitter
- like the US Highbush Blueberry Council on Facebook
- pin any image from the US Highbush Blueberry Council’s website to Pinterest with the hashtag #littlechanges (and while you’re at it, you can follow the US Highbush Blueberry Council on Pinterest, if you like)
- leave me a comment telling me you did all those things
You can enter until Midnight Eastern on February 4, so get to it! I’ll be contacting you if you’re the winner, so please leave me some way to get in touch with you in your comment as well.
48 Comments
I did it all! My twitter id is mami2jcn and my Facebook name is Mary Happymommy. Here is a link to my pin–http://www.pinterest.com/pin/400046379371953013/
Thanks!
mami2jcn at gmail dot com
I did it ll too. My twitter ID is FaithStencel and my facebook name is Faith Luna Stencel. Here’s the link to my pin: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/287315651201608500/. And this recipe looks like one I need to try!!
I did it too! Check out @CleverShedevil, Anna Pesicka, and http://www.pinterest.com/clevershedevil/.
And because I’m OCD that way I took screencaps.
Thanks!
I am now following @blueberry411 and I like their FB page. I also pinned the double blueberry pie recipe:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/46021227416554710/
Lora W.
imnstitches(at)hotmail(dot)com
Dude, this actually looks fantastic! Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m impressed! Also, glad you didn’t die from the poisonous pie crusts. I’d miss you.
Hope you aren’t offended but at first I thought you were changing things up and putting the pinterest picture on the bottom instead of the top. Yours has style!
I am following @blueberry411 (@spiffi) and liked the FB page (Spiffi Kins). I pinned the blueberry chocolate mousse tarts (mmm!). If I win, I can be reached at spiffikins at the gmail email place 🙂
I did all of the above things!
Twitter: heavensangel238
Pin: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/334744184774790129/
Email: Faithrains2387 (at) yahoo (Dot) com
Follow on twitter, like on FB and pin-http://www.pinterest.com/pin/177329304052068436/
Hey dude. I did all the things. Also, I think your tart actually looks prettier than the original. Nice job!
Done and done. I’m MichellePerrin2 on Twitter, Facebook michelle.perrine.35, and Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/pin/181692166190838832/
I did all of the things. Here is the pin: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/159948224239712830/
Thanks for having this giveaway for us!
Did everything! The tart looks awesome!! Definitely adding it to my recipes to try list 😉 I can be reached at caramelle1@hotmail
I did all the things. That tart looks delicious.
Mission accomplished. Did all that stuff. Now I feel a blueberry pie coming on! If I win, you can find me at [email protected].
Done, done and done! And that tart looks just as amazing as I’m sure it tasted. Email is [email protected] 🙂
I’m mostly glad to learn I can still use the pie crust that’s been in my fridge since thanksgiving. It’s just been sitting there, taunting me. (I didn’t do all the things, don’t pick me for the contest. I suck)
I did it! I did it! I hope the $75 gift card isn’t a gift card for, like, cat litter (especially since I don’t have a cat!). But I figured, hey, it’s a free gift card! BTW, I think I might have to try this tart, cuz it looks fantabulous. Oh, and if I win, you can get me at my gmail account — amandal.perry (do you like how I cleverly avoided being picked up by alien email spambots? :P)
Did it! My e-mail is [email protected]
Hi Sonja! I’m a huge blueberry lover (as are my dogs), so hellllllllllz yeah! I pinned the Blutini Royale… if I can find a Blueberry themed manicure to match can this be the next Cocknails?
I did those things! Fingers crossed!
Blueberries are my favorite fruit! I did those things!
I did all of those things! Blueberries are one of my favorites!!
Done! I puffy pink heart blueberries. Well most berries really. I think I’ll share this as my third link today.
Done, done, done! I think your tart looks better than the pin, too. 🙂
Well done! And tarts/pies are supposed to be difficult…pssht! I’ve always called bologna on that shit!
pin: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/184295809725331705/
facebook: jmwillert
twitter: @jsmithsisters
Done!!! Excited and now hungry for blue berries…which, incidentally, are what my various appendages look like in the subzero conditions here :/
my yahoo email is Bitsy_29 followed by the yahoo.com!
Love the PINTESTER
Now I want blueberries… Good thing I already have to go to the store! Liked and pinned all the things! email: [email protected]
Liked, followed, and pinned some muffins (one day I’ll make them). email: [email protected]
BTW Your tart looks amazaing, I have tried to make tarts of that nature a couple times and they tend to end in delicious catastrophe.
Done! I have some blueberries soaking in gin ready to celebrate my $75! Twitter is mollyandmosmom
Did it all! Email: [email protected]
P.S. I’m having cocknails withdrawals!
Who is this Allison Sweeney woman? How many blueberry recipes must I pin or high bush rabbits must i slay to usurp her throne.
Quest parameters achieved: planethalia at the gmail dot com
I think yours is prettier than the pinterest one!
I did all those things! Which means I signed up for Twitter. And pinterest. And facebook. But damn if I won’t turn myself over to social media for $75. I’m poor. #gradschoolproblems Contact: [email protected]
That looks so good! Completed all the tasks! twitter (@methhamfetabean) pinterest (skyejaden) – pinned the Blueberry Party Mix – FB Kim Henrichs. Thanks for the chance!! skyejaden at gmail dot com
Yum I pinned the blueberry breakfast bar recipe. Thanks!!
creep4ward at hotmail dotcom
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/68725262589/
I completed everything.
Twitter: MsCarolsueA
Facebook: Carolsue Anderson
Pinterest: @Cezovski9
Link: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/138204282289054692/
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I did all the above!
twitter/pinterest: mermont84
fb: meredith montgomery
i follow on twitter @vivaciousgold and on facebook and also pinned… thankyou for giveaway
Thank you for offering such a wonderful giveaway. I will definitely be making a blueberry tart this weekend!
Twitter – @normawatson
Facebook – Cindy Aiton
Pinterest – http://www.pinterest.com/pin/250372060508074448/
Email – clogzilla(at)yahoo(dot)com
I did everything! I would love to have been at your house for blueberry tart and a nice cup of coffee. That’s how inviting it looked!
[email protected]
pinned here http://www.pinterest.com/pin/65583738297705767/
twitter msmaryjenkins
FB Mary Carter Jenkins
liked on fb – ellen casper
follow on twitter – @usnamom2014
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/251779435391819808/
Did all they asked. That tart looks really yummy. Needs ice cream though!
Social media’d all the things! Your tart looks super delicious, next time I see berries at the store, I’m definitely going to buy some 🙂
I did everything required – followed on twitter, facebook and pinterest and pinned w/ the hashtag #little changes. Thanks for this giveaway.
cladfamily101 at aol dot com
OMG, I did ALL OF THE THINGS. I went waaaay overboard pinning pins. Those recipes looked way too delicious to stop.
My in-laws grow blueberries, so I can’t wait for summer when I’ll have some fresh ones to work with…
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I follow Blueberry411 on twitter: @girlygirlugh
I like them on FB. Screen name: Jessica H.
I pinned on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/284923113899330715/
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
girlygirlugh at gmail dot com
Yours looks better than the original. That MUST be a first.