Tasty Apricot Berry Cobbler Recipe

My friend Suzanne has actually been coming by a lot just recently, assisting my mother and me raid my next door neighbor Pat's Blenheim apricot tree (with Pat's blessing naturally). Suzanne has 3 growing teens to feed, so she can put those apricots to work! Today she strolled me through her actions of making a fruit cobbler, utilizing blackberries and Pat's apricots.

Exactly what I love about cobbler recipes is that they are so flexible. If they end up runny, that's all right since you aren't aiming to contain them in a pie shell. If they're a little too tart, just serve them with some vanilla ice cream. Cobblers travel well for meals and you just serve them with a spoon. Most importantly, they're a terrific method to take pleasure in the fruit of the season.

Apricot Berry Cobbler Recipe

Ingredients

Cobbler Topping:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 Tbsp white granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (1 stick or 4 ounces) butter softened plus 1/4 cup melted butter
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar

Cobbler Filling:

• 5 cups pitted, quartered apricots (Blenheims if you can obtain some).
• 3 cups blackberries (or boysenberries or blueberries).
• 1 cup white granulated sugar.
• 2 Tbsp flour (for thickening).

Method

In medium bowl toss the apricots, berries, 1 cup white sugar, and 2 Tbsp flour together. Place filling into baking meal (one 9x13x2 baking meal, or more smaller baking meals).

Whisk together the 2 cups of flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, 1 Tbsp white sugar in a medium bowl. Cut the butter into small cubes and toss into the flour mixture. Work the butter with your fingers to smear it and collapse it into the flour, until the mix looks like a coarse cornmeal.
Suggestion: at this moment, if you briefly heat up the apricot berry mix in the microwave or oven, till it is warm, it will help the biscuit topping to rise.

Add almond extract to the buttermilk, then form a well in the middle of the flour mix and gather the buttermilk. Carefully mix (with wooden spoon or your hands) up until the dough just comes together. Do not over-mix.

Form "cobblestone" shapes of the dough and arrange on the top of the apricot berry mixture. (You can likewise simply collapse the dough over the top.) Sprinkle brown sugar over the top of the dough. Drizzle melted butter over the top (go for the fruit more than the biscuits). Preheat oven to 425 ° F. Let the cobbler sit and increase for 10-20 minutes prior to baking.

Bake at 425 ° F for 10-15 minutes or until the top is simply starting to brown, then decrease the heat to 350 ° F. Cook for an added 30 to 40 more minutes, until the center fruit is thickened and bubbly. Examine during cooking, if the topping is getting too brown, cover it with foil and turn the heat to 325 ° F.

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