This Memorial Day, serve up a sweet and tasty treat from Martha Stewart! The celebrity chef shares her classic dessert ideas — a scrumptious blueberry crisp and cream puffs with lemon mousse and blueberry sauce:
Recipe: Blueberry Crisp (on this page) Recipe: Cream Puffs with Lemon Mousse and Blueberry sauce (on this page)For more cooking and baking ideas, visit Marthastewart.com.
This crisp has a loose and juicy filling. If you would prefer a thicker filling, add an extra teaspoon of cornstarch.
Preheat oven to 375°. Make the filling: Mix blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, and salt in a bowl. Transfer to an 8-inch square baking dish.
Make the topping: Stir together flour, oats, baking powder, and salt. Cream butter and sugar in a mixer until pale and fluffy. Stir dry ingredients into butter. Using your hands, squeeze topping pieces together into clumps.
Sprinkle topping evenly over filling. Bake until bubbling in center and brown on top, about 1 hour. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool for 30 minutes before serving.
Crisp tip: Make and freeze extra batches of the topping. Whenever you have fresh fruit on hand, you’ll be able to assemble the dessert quickly.
Make the cream puffs: Preheat oven to 400°. Combine water, butter, granulated sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, and remove from heat. Stir in flour until combined, and return to medium heat.
Dry the panade by stirring constantly for 4 minutes. It is ready when it pulls away from the sides and a film forms on the bottom of the pan.
Transfer to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on low until slightly cooled, about 2 minutes. On medium speed, add 4 eggs, one at a time, incorporating each completely before adding the next. Lightly beat fifth egg, and add a little at a time until batter is smooth and shiny. Test by touching it with your finger and lifting to form a string. If string does not form, the batter needs more egg. If you’ve added all the eggs and the batter still doesn’t form a string, add water, 1 teaspoon at a time, until it does.
Using a pastry bag fitted with a plain ½-inch round tip, pipe ten 2½-inch rounds of batter onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Brush with egg wash, and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350°, and bake until puffed and golden and centers are dry, about 35 minutes more. Let cool on a wire rack.
Make the blueberry sauce: Bring 1 cup blueberries, the water, granulated sugar, lemon zest, and salt to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce heat, and simmer until most of the berries have burst, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add remaining cup blueberries, and crush lightly.
Make the lemon mousse: Lightly whisk lemon curd, and fold in whipped cream using a rubber spatula. Halve each cream puff, and fill bottoms with lemon-mousse. Spoon on blueberry sauce, replace tops, and serve.
Makes 10
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