I’m still on my blueberry kick. I already made some scones so I decided to try some crumble bars. I wanted them to have a nice crust on the bottom, sort of like a lemon bar but have the moisture of a coffee cake and the crunch of a streusel topping all rolled into one. There are a huge variety of crumb bar recipes out there. I decided to combine some of the things I liked about a few of the old stand by recipes I had for cherry crumb bars and lemon bars to come up with this one. It turned out very nicely. I didn’t even have to add nuts to the top to give it the satisfying “crumb” texture, the blueberries kept their integrity without turning into a gooey sauce and the bottom crust was fantastic, holding it all together. This thing can be eaten as a bar, but I’m telling you it’s unparalleled with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream on top! (Or at least that’s what everyone else who ate them up told me. Only 4 more days to go on this cleanse…)
Blend in the cold butter to the flour mixture with a pastry blender
Press half of the dough into a 9 x 13 pan
While the crust is baking prepare the blueberries
Spread the blueberries evenly over the crust
Sprinkle the remainder of the crust mixture along with the rolled oats on top
Serve warm with ice cream or cool and cut into bars
Blueberry Crumble Bars
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cut into chunks
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
zest of one lemon
1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats (save to add to the mixture later)
Fruit Preparation:
4 cups fresh blueberries
juice of one lemon
3 tbsp corn starch
1/2 cup sugar
Pre-heat oven to 375°F. Line a 9 x 13 pan with parchment paper or spray with cooking spray. In a bowl, mix together 1 cup sugar, flour, salt, lemon zest and baking powder. Using a pastry blender cut in the butter with the flour mixture until a crumbly mixture forms. Whisk egg and vanilla together and pour into the flour mixture and blend well. Mixture will be crumbly. Press half of the flour mixture into the bottom of the prepared 9 x 13 pan and bake for about 18 minutes.
In the meantime, add the rolled oats to the remaining flour mixture and set aside. In a medium bowl, mix the blueberries with lemon juice, corn starch and sugar, taking care not to smash any of the berries. Take the crust out of the oven, it should be a light brown color, spread the blueberry mixture evenly on top and sprinkle the flour/oat mixture on top of the blueberries. Return to the oven and bake an additional 40 minutes until golden brown on top and berries are nice and bubbly. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or cool completely and cut into bars.
Made these the other day and they were great. They got even better after sitting for a few days and becoming more moist and gooey. (insert Bengali word for delicious).
I have to make those again. I never did get to eat any for myself!! I was on that Master Cleanse thing.
Yummmm … these look great and blueberries are so good now!
Thanks Karen!
Looks very good!
My wife makes the same thing but it’s called “S’crumbles”
Oof – Fantastic. I love this Blueberry Crumble. You are so good at baking, honestly! You are always making something or the other – pie or tarts or something Jhat pat! I really wish I could bake – with two kids at home it’s always nice to have something like this going on – but alas!
Baking is pretty easy and relaxing and kids love it. It’s one of the things my kids enjoyed doing with me because it let them practice their math and fraction skills.
Too many foodie friends are forcing me to re-think about baking – bringing the fractions and maths practice into the thing – well that could be the ultimate motivator!
Yum – how did you resist not eating one of these? Or eight of these?
I think your next post should be Top Tips for Food Blogging with Willpower! 
How about a scoop of lemon coconut blueberry ice cream! That’s what I made last night. These look scrumptious and now I know what to call them
Did you post that ice cream? That sounds fabulous!
No, but I will last week’s lemon buttermilk one. Last night’s tasted great but I think it stopped churning and I didn’t realize it, so the consistency wasn’t totally great. I may make it again.
I love it when you have a vision of how you want something to turn out and it ends up happening! These bars look great. You are putting all those blueberries to good use!
Good luck on July 4th. Stay very strong!
And I will be thinking about you on July 5th. Ease into it if you can!
I have to ease in. I heard you get really sick if you eat meat early or eat too quickly.
I bet you had a lot of takers to be your tasters for this post. I love blueberries in any form, but in a crumbly bar? Go to the head of the queue! Gorgeous Tahmina
Thank you, thank you!!
Oooh…..I always love more blueberry recipes!! They look heavenly
I still can’t believe that you can bake and not eat anything…keep it up you are almost there!
Hey, I made your Kuchen with blueberry, it was great. It got eaten so fast so I assume it was delicious.
Excellent! Who are the lucky people that get to eat your delicious foods?
Well, my husband and daughter and co-workers, people at church, refugees I mentor, random people who drop by my house several times a week mainly because they like to hang out and they know there will be food….
they are certainly lucky!!
Yum, I just pinned this!
You know what that means….you have make it and eat the whole thing, warm with ice cream (wait, I was having a food porn moment)