Blackberries & Cream Biscuits

Sweet summer berries are the star of the show in these simple & easy to make Blackberries & Cream Biscuits...

My youngest just may have started the first grade last week. And my oldest may have moved into his dorm room this past weekend to start his sophomore year of college, but I am not throwing in the towel on summer just quite yet, folks. I mean, technically it is still summer until September 22nd- am I right? ;)

I am sure you all have already seen the pumpkin recipes starting to creep in all over Facebook lately. And while I am probably the biggest fan of fall that you will ever meet, I am not quite ready for all the pumpkin things just yet. I most definitely will be, but not in mid AUGUST, you all. 

So, let's enjoy summertime just a little bit longer with these easy to make Blackberries & Cream Biscuits, shall we?

Blackberry Lemon Almond-Oat Bars

These Blackberry Lemon Almond-Oat Bars are just like your favorite blackberry crisp but in a deliciously plate-free/fork-free form...

**Updated with new photos 8/1/16.

I am coming at you all today with another delicious dessert recipe perfect for Mother's Day weekend.  These Blackberry Lemon Almond-Oat Bars are sweet with a hint of tart lemon. They are just like your favorite blackberry crisp but in a deliciously plate-free/fork-free form.

Blackberry season always evokes for me memories of my childhood picking wild blackberries with my mother and grandmother.  We would dress in long sleeves and pants (even in the heat of summer) and drive out to a spot that my grandmother had been told of. Then we would spend hours picking the sweet, juicy blackberries off the bushes into our buckets.

Okay, so not all of them actually made it into my bucket.... and my purple hued teeth and tongue may have given me away at times. ;)

But I have fond memories of foraging for the perfectly sweet ripe blackberries growing along the hillsides and thickets of my wild and wonderful West Virginia.

Those berry picking trips would result in pints of homemade blackberry jam from my grandmother and my mother's homemade blackberry pies which we all clamored for.