Crushed blackberry and cornmeal cake from Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over (page 272) by Alison Roman

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  • krwhte on April 20, 2026

    Made with a mix of half blackberries, half raspberries and this turned out perfectly. I used medium grind cornmeal and didn’t find this to be too grainy.

  • snoozermoose on February 11, 2025

    The cake came together easily and baked up beautifully, but I agree with Lepa that the combo of blackberry seeds and cornmeal was too gritty of a texture for me to enjoy this fully. We thought this was pretty good but not something we'd make again.

  • ripleypickles on May 29, 2021

    Delicious and not too sweet, especially served hot with vanilla ice cream. If you don't like a lot of texture, use finer ground cornmeal. I'd also skip the folding in of the blackberries and instead layer cornmeal mixture on the bottom, top with half the blackberries and then repeat so it looks prettier.

  • Lepa on December 04, 2019

    The corn/blackberry taste was nice but we didn't like the gritty texture from the medium-grind cornmeal (and the blackberry seeds!) This won't be a repeat in our house.

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