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Many thanks to Brenda Tsavatewa and her son Chris for sharing their family recipe, which I’ve slightly modified below.
***RECIPE***
1 lb (453g) cream cheese
22 oz (1.2kg) canned blueberry pie filling (or homemade recipe, see below)
2 cups (1 pint, 473mL) cream
3 cups (250g) graham cracker crumbs (about 20 of the big rectangular crackers)
1 + 1/4 cups (200 + 50g) granulated sugar, divided
1 1/2 sticks (6 oz, 170g) butter
1/4 cup (40g) powdered sugar
fresh blueberries or other fresh fruit for garnish (optional)
Leave out your cream cheese at room temperature to soften — if you forget to to this, you can unwrap it and microwave it on very low power until just soft.
Melt your butter and stir it thoroughly into the cracker crumbs along with 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar. Scoop out about 1/3 cup (50g, I dunno?) of the mixture and set it aside. Dump the rest into any wide, flat dish — Brenda uses a 9×13 inch (23x33cm) glass baking dish — and pat it down firmly into the bottom and sides. Chill this firm while you get everything else ready.
Beat a cup (200g) of granulated sugar into the softened cream cheese until just smooth. In a separate bowl, combine the cream and powdered sugar and beat until you get soft peaks (this is easier if the cream is cold). Gently fold the cream cheese mixture into the whipped cream and then beat it just enough until smooth — excess beating will deflate the cream.
Get the chilled crust out, drop in half of the dairy mixture in dollops and spread it to a smooth layer. Dump in the blueberry pie filling and spread it smooth. Dump on the rest of the dairy mixture in dollops and spread smooth (watch the video for Brenda’s drop-and-roll technique). Sprinkle the top with the reserved crumb mixture and garnish with fresh berries. Chill firm before you eat it.
***HOMEMADE PIE FILLING***
3 pints (about a kilo) fresh blueberries
1 cup (200g) sugar
1/4-1/2 cup (30-60g) cornstarch, depending on how thick you want it
water
fresh lemon or lime juice (optional)
optional spices (cloves, cinnamon and other Christmassy spices are nice)
Combine the berries and sugar in a pot over high heat. You can just stir them until the berries start to break down, but you can accelerate the process by mashing them up a bit yourself. Boil until the berries have started to break apart but you still have very big chunks.
Dissolve the cornstarch into a smooth slurry with as little water as possible and drizzle it into the boiling berries, stirring constantly. If you want it more acidic, stir in citrus juice to taste, along with maybe a pinch of salt and any spices you like. Chill before using.
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I keep thinking I'll make this one of these days.
My name is Michael Skinner, and My identity, and my privacy, is not for sale! I would never post compromising videos or photos of myself, or anything like that. Simply because of UCSF and the fetal treatment center!
That is just something you do not do! It undermines any long-term plans you have!
yum yum💀
Ludacris any?
I don't have access to graham crackers, so could I digestive biscuits and leave out the extra sugar. I think I heard Babish say digestives are sweeter than grahams.
that… that cucumber is average… huge even.
Ms. Brenda's cooking reminds me of my Mema. She also grew up on government food and continued to use those recipes through to the end of her life. She died almost a decade ago.
Didn't know your yumyum was chill like that
5:01 well I think that cucumber is massive 😢.
Kind of reminds me of mango float.
Surely washing dishes would be cheaper than paper plates, right?
Got a lil' bit of blueberry yum yum and I never would of thought that it could taste this gooooood.
This does look yum yum.
Reminds me of a mango float.
And no wonder why we are sinking from plastic waste. 😢😢
Hello there, they don't sell graham crackers here in Czechia. What do you think would be a reasonable substitute?
Thank God for the man who put it in my hood
Never tried this but it's remarkably similar to a dessert I've tried in the Philippines. Layered and made the same way except the ingredients are swapped with local ones.
Cream = Condensed Milk
Blueberries = Mango slices
Also, the graham crackers aren't crushed and the finished dish is stored in the freezer, not the fridge.
Brenda kinda looks like rule 63 (gender swapped) Jack Black. 😀
Reminds me of our mango graham cakes here in the Philippines. Just get some mangoes, graham crackers, cream, and evaporated milk, and layer them on one another, then put it in the refrigerator. Fun. 😛
Blueberry yum yum was a summertime staple in family as a child
Why I chill my bowl and not my whipped cream
4:59 tiny ? That's average Adam
cream whips faster if it's room temp not cold!
Ludacris rapping about a desert the whole time?
I thought i was drunk, but it's actually called blueberry yum yum
Yummy
I would pester my mom constantly to make something, anything, so I could lick the beaters 🤣
THE LEMON SEED THAT FELL INTO THE POT NOOO
wonderful episode
Jesus Christ. No wonder Americans are insanely morbidly obese.
The interview with Brenda is the best and most touching part. Hearing about her experiences was so meaningful! Thanks Adam
I never even knew you could buy graham cracker crumbs. Admittedly the baking section is slightly foreign to me but when I was in college a girlfriend went on a cheesecake baking frenzy. There was cheesecake everywhere. Everyone got one for birthdays. We brought them to Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. Our fridge had like leftovers of two different kinds. At Christmas one of my cousins asked me if he could take a slice home. I said please take the whole thing or both. I announced to the party to leave the dishes empty and take it all because I already had some at home.
I hate everything about this.
6:40 a lemon seed fell in
me (who doesnt have a sweet tooth) watching this recipe unfold:
Tanjiro cringe meme
6:36 When Adam said Acidity I thought he was gonna do the thing where he puts white wine in everything
good LORD that looks good
Came here after viewing the copyright video. Brenda needs her own youtube channel. In Australia, unless you live near a pick-your-own blueberry farm or grow them yourself this would be a prohibitively expensive dessert. A 125 g punnet of blueberries is at the cheapest about $3.50 and as much as $5 early or late in the season. That would be anything from $28 to $40 just to get the 1kg of blueberries necessary to make the dessert (no tinned blueberry pie mix in Aus). Fortunately for me, I do grow blueberries and got a bumper harvest this year.
Did anyone realize he was trying to catch lemon seeds and one fell out anyways?
Three ninjas?
How many of these kinds of iconic American deserts predate the early 1900s
My grandma makes a similar dessert, but replaces the blueberries with canned cranberry sauce. The extra acidity the cranberries add really makes the dish irresistible
living in the real world? only america has "blueberry pie filling" in a can…
I've completely changed my diet and started fasting to help.drop.my blood sugar problem. I've just recently got it in check. I've got everything except the charm crackers or the whipped cream. I think I'll mix the crackers with powdered pecans at 50 / 50 mix. Not sure if I can use monkfruit to sweeten it with. If so I can make it fairly healthy and use it as a cheat once a month . That would be awesome if it will work.
Welcome to my lab. I mean my kitchen. * laughs an evil laugh * 😂
Such wholesomeness. Lovely family too. Nice to see such fun recipes