The meeting of plump ripe blackberries with crunchy buttery crumb topping is hard to resist. Blackberries provide antioxidant-fighting vitamins such as C and A and have grown in the United States and abroad for thousands of years. Mix fresh blackberries with a flour-and-sugar-based buttery dough and you'll have blackberry cobbler. The dish isn't tough to make and can be whipped up in a few minutes.
Ingredients and Tools
Blackberries are the star of this dish and should be selected with care. Several recipes call for frozen blackberries, which is a practical alternative when baking cobbler during the fall and winter months. Another option is to pick or purchase fresh blackberries during the summer, then flash freeze for future use. However, fresh are always best.
This dish requires only a few ingredients, so select the finest quality. Purchase milk, fresh unsalted butter, sugar, flour, baking powder and salt.
Use a large glass bowl to mix your cobbler, a rubber spatula, a 2-qt. glass casserole dish, microwave and conventional oven. Select a dish that fits in your microwave oven so you can melt the butter. If you don't have a microwave, melt your butter in a pan on the stove.
Build Cobbler
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Microwave ½ cup of butter in a 2-qt. glass casserole dish for 1 minute or until melted. Combine 1 cup flour with 1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. baking powder, 1/8 tsp. salt and 2/3 cup milk in a large glass bowl. Fold ingredients with a spatula, then pour mixture over the melted butter.
Spoon 16 oz. of blackberries over your dough. Thaw blackberries first if they are frozen, and be careful not to stir blackberries into the dough mixture. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown.
Easy Recipe Variations
Add special ingredients to the blackberry mixture in the basic cobbler recipe. Food Network chef Sandra Lee adds lemon juice to her blackberry mix, and "Throw Down with Bobby Flay" challenger Linda Hacker adds sour mash bourbon whiskey and cinnamon to her blackberries.
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