This is the BEST pie if you have fresh huckleberries available to you. Here in Idaho they grow wild and we spend the last weeks or our summer filling as many ice cream buckets as we can so we can freeze them and enjoy them all year. This is always the first recipe we make with a fresh picked batch of berries. You can also use blueberries.
Huckleberry Cream Pie
2 cups fresh huckleberries or blueberries
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup corn starch
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp almond or vanilla extract
9" baked pie shell
Whipping Cream
Cream the cream cheese and powdered sugar and mix well. Add vanilla or almond flavoring and mix until smooth. Spread in the bottom of the baked pie shell.
In a sauce pan mix the sugar and corn starch together. Add water and stir. Add berries. Cook over medium heat until bubbly and thick. Pour into prepared pie shell. Refrigerate until set. Top with whipped cream.
OOOh, I love wild huckleberries, and this sounds like a great pie! They get ripe around here in July in our mountains. You have to really watch out for copperheads and rattlesnakes though. They like to coil up inside the bushes, then when you reach in to pick…they have you! Be careful! I love the berries in pancake batter!!
I have never heard that about the snakes! Yikes! I will have to look into that for our region…my kids hate the spiders as the bushes are always covered with their webs. I have the willies now…eck! But…still worth it for the berries.
Oh I’m so sorry to scare you Amanda, I didn’t mean to, really I didn’t, but around our area, its a well-known fact and we have to really be careful. Are you picking them from a wild blueberry farm, or are you picking from bushes that are growing wild in the area?
OH! It’s all good…I was not too worried although I did ask my husband if he had heard ANYTHING about that. I am pretty sure we do not have that problem. I am actually more concerned about bears. That is why we bring the dog. It would take a lot to deter me from berry pickin’.
Our berries grow wild in the hills here. Your family huckleberry patch is a closely guarded secret and many take that secret to the grave with them. My husband even went so far as to bring a GPS one year so we could go back to the EXACT bush. I laughed at him, but over the years it has been a very generous bush. Sometimes we camp so we can pick, pick, pick.
We put them in:
pies
cobblers
buckles
pancakes
upside down cakes
raspberry huckleberry jam (so yummy together)
milkshakes
syrup
oatmeal (YUM!)
I am always looking for new and interesting huckleberry recipes. I would love to get my hands on a huckleberry swirl cheesecake. I have experimented, but nothing good yet. So…if you have one…eh hum…
Sorry, I just love huckleberry talk!
Found this one for you on Allrecipes.com Sounds really good!
Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake
“Fresh blueberries are swirled through a sweet, creamy base in this crowd-pleasing dessert.” Can use wild huckleberries
1 cup HONEY MAID Graham Cracker Crumbs
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
4 (8 ounce) packages PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup BREAKSTONE’S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
4 eggs
2 cups fresh or thawed frozen blueberries
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix crumbs, 3 Tbsp. of the sugar and the butter. Press firmly onto bottom of foil-lined 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake 10 min.
Beat cream cheese, remaining 1 cup sugar and the vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed after each addition just until blended. Pour over crust. Puree the blueberries in a blender or food processor. Gently drop spoonfuls of the pureed blueberries over batter; cut through batter several times with knife for marble effect.
Bake 45 min. or until center is almost set; cool. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving. Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.
Oh Wow! Thanks so much. I can’t wait to try this. Hmmmmmmmmm…Father’s Day is just around the corner. Perfect