Blueberry Pull Apart Bread

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I feel like the meals around Thanksgiving dinner always get ignored. No one has ham on Thanksgiving eve like Christmas eve. Nor are there Pinterest boards filled with ideas for Thanksgiving breakfasts.

So here is an idea.

It worked out great today. It finished just as my mom finished prepping the turkey to go in the oven.

I also made the dough the night before. I should have also filled and stacked the bread before I went to bed and let it do it's final rise in the fridge overnight.

If you do it that way, all it takes is 30 minutes to have a delicious warm breakfast.

I used the Pioneer Woman's Pull Apart Bread recipe for the dough, then made a blueberry filling.

The one thing I learned today is that blueberries roll... Go figure.

Anyways, I highly recommend mashing the blueberries into the sugar before spreading the filling on to your dough, or cheating by cutting all of the squares and putting the filling in between one by one.

Trust me, round sugar covered blueberries were flying everywhere this morning.

Blueberry Filling for Pull Apart Bread

• 1/2 Cup of Sugar
• 1 and a 1/2 Cups of Frozen Blueberries
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 Teaspoon Orange Juice, optional

 Mix all of these in a bowl and allow to meld for about 5 minutes before smearing on your dough that has been covered in butter.

For the rest of the bread, I followed the Pioneer Woman's instructions exactly.

 

Be warned, this made a lot of dough. I had to break out 2 mini loaf pans after I filled a large one.

I hope you enjoy the bread!

Last Minute Thankgiving Bread

So, it's Thursday. Everyone congratulate me, as of 9:15 this morning, I am officially finished with Fall Quarter of my Junior year of college. *bows*

Yes, folks, that means that it has been Finals Week for me. And I did have every intention of posting this Tuesday... and last Tuesday for that matter.

I had these great frozen Spicy Chicken sandwiches that I made to reheat over the course of the week. Brillent, right?

Then my phone crashed, taking all of my photos with it. :(

So I had no photos and no time to come up with a fantastic new idea to tell you all about Finals Week. But now that the madness is over, I have time to think about Thanksgiving.

For those of you that don't know, I go to college a loooong way from home, as I detailed in my first every post, A Nice Change of Scenery. So, for the first time, I am not going home for Thanksgiving. No giant dogs to chew on me, no walking into -my- bedroom, no after dinner pie at Village in with my best friend Josh, and none of my mother's super fabulous stuffing.

I do, however, get to spend the holiday with my BF and his family. Remember BF? He's been working in San Diego for 6 months? Well, he'll be back just in time for the New York winter.

The key to my long, rambling story is that I needed something to bring to not only BF's mother, but her sister who is hosting the dinner... And I needed to plan all of this during Finals Week..

Quick Bread! It has the word quick in the name! It's perfect! I recently found out that his mother loves blueberries, and seriously, if you are going to bring food the hostess doesn't ask for on Thanksgiving, it really needs to be breakfast for the next morning, or alcohol.

I'm only 20.. darn you stupid 8 months before I turn 21, I guess I'm bringing breakfast.

So, without further ado...

Oatmeal Blueberry Bread or Muffins
Adapted from Blueberry Oatmeal Bread

1 dozen muffins (you didn't want to be making muffins all afternoon did you?)

• 1 cup AP Flour
• 1/2 cup Quick Oats
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder  
• 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 2/3 cup Milk
• 1/4 cup Oil
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup Frozen Blueberries

 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.

Mix egg, milk, oil, and vanilla in a glass. Trust me, the fewer bowls the better.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until -barely- blended. Fold in the frozen blueberries.

Pour the batter into a muffin tin or 2 loaf pans, sprayed with non-stick spray. (I wanted to use my heart pan, so I had to have a second muffin tin.)

Bake at 350 degree for 15-20 minutes for muffins, 20-30 minutes for the loaves.

Enjoy! These are moist and delicious, I'm planning on making the loaves to take with me to Pennsylvania!