I have a somewhat shocking confession about this blackberry jam coconut pudding.

The first time I made it Phil and I ate the whole thing – a WHOLE PIE – between us in one go.  This blackberry jam coconut pudding is supposed to serve 4-6 ??

I know!  I’m shocking myself all over again saying it out loud!  Why did we eat the whole thing?  Because there’s so many things to love about this blackberry jam coconut pudding:

• Homemade jam that’s SO easy and quick you’ll be wondering why the heck you haven’t been making your own jam for years.  The secret is chia seeds – tiny little seeds of loveliness that give it that ‘jam-like’ quality AND are full of protein and fiber.  The other best bit about this easy vegan jam recipe is YOU control how much of the sweet stuff you put in – and in all honesty you don’t need that much!

• THAT TOPPING!  Using coconut flour and ground oats makes this whole blackberry jam coconut pudding gluten free.  I’d intended it to be much more like a sponge but I’m still getting used to coconut flour (it has a higher absorption rate than normal flour) and it ended up somewhere between a sponge and a crumble but sosoSO good.

Good enough to eat a whole family sized pie between just the 2 of us apparently ?

I’m also lucky enough as a food blogger to get a wide and varied range of ingredients sent to us – sometimes they’re new discoveries and sometimes they’re products that we already use time and time again.  I am THE biggest fan of coconut sugar.  I could live with a bag of it permanently under my nose just for that caramely heaven-like smell alone.  And Coconut Merchant is a lovely company we discovered a while ago at a food festival and have been using ever since.  They have a HUGE range of all things coconut – including Coconut Jam and Coconut Nectar, who knew there were such delights?!  Or have I been living under a rock?  Let me know if you get your hands on some of this divine stuff!

Till then bake yourself a big dish of jammy, spongy crumble stuff and we absolutely will not judge if you don’t share either ?

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