blueberries

Such a great summer fruit salad! Packed with juicy flavors to enjoy on a hot summer day. And great colors for a fourth of July event. Trust me you’ll have enough for a nice size party. It’s so simple and yet so delicious.

Ingredients

Salad:

1 Seedless Watermelon (cut into small cubes)

2 pints of Strawberries (diced)

2 pints of Blueberries

1 pint of Blackberries

1 pint of Raspberries

-Optional- 1 pint of pitted cherries and small star cut outs of honey dew

summer fruit salad without cherries

summer fruit salad with cherries

star shaped honey dew melon

Dressing:

½ cup of chopped fresh mint

1 cup honey

½ cup of lime juice (5 to 6 limes squeezed)

-Optional – instead of mint you can use poppy seeds

Summer fruit salad with honey lime dressing

Directions

Rinse and clean all fruit (you can rinse with water, vinegar and even baking soda to make sure it’s clean).
Slice and dice the watermelon into small cubes (approximately ½ inch in size) and place in a large dish that can be sealed.
Cut the leafy ends off of the strawberries and dice them into small bite size pieces. Add them to the large dish.
Sprinkle in blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Stir/mix until there is a nice mix of the colors of fruit.
Slice and squeeze the limes into a small bowl.
Either chop fresh mint or sprinkle poppy-seeds into the lime juice.
Whisk in the honey and continue whisking until everything is blended nicely.
Add the dressing last and mix well (I usually do it a few hours before serving so there is good flavor).

Mint and Honey Lime Dressing

My favorite fruit dressing 🙂

Thanks for viewing and hope you can enjoy this festive treat this July 4th!

Katie

This recipe was an unexpected treat this weekend. My husband was craving some of my scones but the only fresh fruit we had left was blueberries. I also had the leftover cream cheese filling from my red velvet macaron recipe (those are delicious as well). That’s when a great idea came to my mind… Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones. Doesn’t it sound oh so delicious? I always see these bread recipes with a cream cheese filling, so I thought why not do it in a scone. So here is a simple yet perfectly tasteful scone recipe for you and your family to enjoy.

Ingredients:

Scones

2 and 1/4 cups flour

⅓ cup packed brown sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 stick of butter (frozen and grated)

1 egg

¼ cup heavy cream

¼ cup blueberry greek yogurt or sour cream

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup blueberry jam

½ cup fresh blueberries

3 tbsp cream cheese filling

Cream Cheese Filling

2 tbsp butter (room temp)

3 oz cream cheese (room temp)

¼ tsp vanilla extract

¾ cups powdered sugar

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400’
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, sift the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt. If the brown sugar doesn’t go through the sifter you just dump it in just make sure its mixed well.
Using a cheese grater (large holes) grate one stick of butter and blend until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, heavy cream, yogurt, vanilla extract and blueberry jam.
Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
Gently fold in the fresh blueberries (it’s fine if some get smushed).
Carefully add in the cream cheese filling. Don’t over blend it but make sure you don’t have large sections of it.
Pat the dough out into a rectangular shape (like a flat log) that is about 1 inch thick. Cut into 6 – 8 equal wedges (you can use a pizza cutter).
Arrange the wedges on your baking sheet or scone pan. Using a basting brush, brush some heavy whipping cream over the tops of the scones.
Bake scones for 12 – 14 minutes or until light golden brown.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool before enjoying.