hey there welcome back to another video i'm baker bettie and today we are going to make a cobbler
now a cobbler is traditionally a fruit-based dessert that has some type of topping over
the top typically something like a biscuit or a dumpling topping although some people do make a
batter type topping and pour that over the top but the kind we are making today is the kind
that has a biscuit topping and i personally believe this is the true cobbler because
cobbler gets its name from the topping looking like a cobbled road now this recipe is another
one of my customizable recipes it can be made with any kind of fruit you want and as always
all of the ingredient amounts are listed in the written post which is linked in the description
okay so to make the filling for the cobbler we just need a few simple components
you need about two pounds which is 900 grams of fruit and this can be really any fruit you like
i'm making a triple berry cobbler today so i'm using strawberries raspberries and blueberries
but you could use peaches you could use apples really any fruit you like now that is the weight
of the fruit that's going into the filling so if you get something like apples remember you'll be
cutting the core out so you want to account for that when you do purchase the fruit that you'll
need a little extra weight so for small fruits like blueberries raspberries you don't need to cut
them obviously just wash them but then for larger fruits like strawberries i usually quarter them or
have them if they're a little bit smaller and for apples or pears or peaches you would want
to slice them about a half inch thick so the next ingredient you need is sugar and you can actually
use granulated sugar or brown sugar now in the written recipe it does list a range of sugar so if
you like a little bit of a sweeter filling or if your fruit is a really tart fruit like rhubarb you
might want to use the larger amount of sugar or if you like a little bit of a less sweet filling then
you would want to use the smaller amount now we also need an acidic ingredient so something like
lemon juice or you could use apple cider vinegar or orange juice i'm using lemon juice today
you also need some corn starch and this is going to help thicken up our filling so that the juices
get really nice and thick and then of course we always need some salt which just rounds out
our flavors and then you can add any kind of flavorings you want now in the written recipe i
give a lot of different options for you to kind of choose from to help you flavor your filling
but you can add any kinds of spices or extracts you could also add zest like orange zest or lemon
zest i'm just adding a tiny bit of cardamom today because that goes really well with
berries but you can really get creative with this and flavor it however you like
and then i'm just tossing this all together to make sure everything is evenly distributed
now there's also some butter listed in the ingredients for the filling that is going to
be dotted over top of the filling before we put our topping on and that just helps keep it really
rich and moist so we'll leave that to the side for now and now we can make our topping
so for the topping for our cobbler we're just gonna make my classic biscuit recipe
and if you've ever made my biscuits before you know that we typically put it out on the counter
top and fold the dough over itself a few times to create really nice layers but for the topping we
don't need to do that so we're going to stop right after mixing and then that's just going to go
right on top of our fruit filling so i have some flour in my mixing bowl here and i'm going to add
the rest of my dry ingredients so i have some baking powder and baking soda for our leavening
now my traditional biscuit recipe doesn't have sugar in it but i am adding a little bit of sugar
into this topping just to give a little bit of sweetness and then we also need
salt so that's it for our dry ingredients and just go ahead and mix that together
and now we're going to cut our butter through the flour if you have a pastry blender you can do that
i'm actually just going to use my fingers here today because it's very quick and easy to do it
that way so i'm just going to kind of toss the butter through the flour and then i'm going to
use the tips of my fingers to kind of press all the fat into the flour and kind of flatten it out
so that it gets more evenly distributed through the flour and we have lots of little pieces mixed
throughout those pieces of butter melt in the oven and create lots of steam and that's what kind of
creates flakiness for biscuits and it's gonna make a really delicious topping for our cobbler
okay so once the mixture kind of looks like this there's lots of little pieces and a few bigger
pieces mixed throughout we can go ahead and add our buttermilk so because this recipe does have
baking soda in it we do need the acidity from buttermilk but if you don't have buttermilk
on hand there are some substitute suggestions in the written recipe for you to make a substitute
so i'm just gently stirring this together until a pretty thick dough forms i don't want to be
too aggressive with it and i don't want to stir for too long because i want that topping to stay
really nice and tender and flaky and it's going to look very incohesive and kind of shaggy
so if you can see that in the video you can see that this dough is it's not very cohesive
at all and i'm probably only spending about 15 to 20 seconds mixing and then i'm gonna
stop okay so now we have our filling we have our topping let's go ahead and assemble our cobbler
okay so i have a greased 9 by 13 pan you can use really anything you want if you have pan
spray you can use that i just took a stick of butter and rubbed it all around the pan because
butter always makes everything better and we're just going to add our filling
into our pan and if there's a lot of juices at the bottom you can go ahead and add those
we don't have a bottom crust to this so we don't have to worry about a soggy bottom the way you do
with a traditional fruit pie so you can just go ahead and add all of those in now i also
forgot to mention you can use frozen fruit with this it does work with frozen fruit but just be
aware frozen fruit does release more liquid in the oven so the filling will probably be
a little more juicy and you might want to cook it just a little bit longer if you use frozen fruit
okay so we have our filling in the dish we're going to take that butter and dot it over the top
you just want little bits all over
okay now for our topping you can kind of do this however you like you can use a spoon and kind of
scoop it over the top or even a cookie scoop but i'm just taking my hands and kind of breaking off
pieces of the dough and just spreading that out over the filling i'm leaving some space so that
you can see the berries through but just dot your topping all over the top of the filling
but as you can see that's where cobbler gets its name is it kind of looks like a cobbled
road once it bakes because you have all of these kind of uneven pieces of dough throughout the top
now before we go into the oven i'm just brushing a little bit of melted butter
over the top of all of our biscuit toppings and then i'm going to dust
a little bit of coarse sugar over the top i have some turbinado sugar here
that is completely optional i just really like the texture that it gives and if you
don't have coarse sugar you can either just not do any sugar on top or use some granulated sugar
okay we're going to bake this at 350 for about 50 to 60 minutes you do want to check on it towards
the end of baking if the biscuits are starting to get really dark on top you can tend a piece
of foil over the top and we know this is done baking when the filling is bubbling
in the center you want to look for it to bubble in the center not just on the edges
so i just pulled our cobbler out of the oven it took about 50 minutes to bake
and it smells incredible now you do want to let it sit for just about 15 minutes before you scoop
it and serve it just to let the juices thicken up a little bit and you can serve it just as
is or it's also amazing topped with some whipped cream or some vanilla ice cream i
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