We picked twelve cups of blackberries the other day while we had visitors here and turned it into blackberry coffee cake. This recipe used 3-1/2 cups of blackberries so I also made two loaves of blackberry bread and the most popular blackberry cobbler that got eaten so fast I never got a photo of it. And I still have blackberries leftover. All these recipes are from a very old cookbook of mine called Wild & Free Blackberries that I've had since around the mid-1990's. And this is definitely the time of year that this little cookbook is sitting out on my kitchen counter. We picked them at our local golf course because Bruce sees how plentiful they are when he plays golf and he has been eager to get us out there to pick and we finally did. Our visitors have returned home now but they had three children who LOVED picking blackberries and also LOVED eating them. They were children of Bruce's nephew who was here with his ...