Features of making a delicious cake. TOP 7 best cobbler recipes with fruit, berry, egg and vegetable fillings. Video recipes.
Cobbler is a simple but delicious cake that began to be prepared in the British colonies in the middle of the 19th century. Since the English settlers did not have the necessary ingredients for the classic pudding, and did not have the right equipment for this, they began to cover the stew with a layer of dough or dumplings made from flour and sweetened bread crumbs. Today, fruits or berries are used as filling for baking, most often apples, peaches, blueberries or blackberries. In some regions, cobbler pie is prepared with a meat or vegetable filling consisting of tomatoes, onions, cheese or cornmeal. To bake it, you need a large dish with high sides, the dough is quickly kneaded and does not require expensive ingredients. Below are the basic principles of making a pie and the most popular recipes suitable for home use.
Cobbler cooking features
The first recipe for making a pie was written in 1859 under the name "cobbler", which means "shoemaker" in Russian. But baking has nothing to do with the profession of a shoemaker, and its name comes from the archaic word "cobeler" meaning "wooden bowl". In all likelihood, the first British colonists, due to the lack of the necessary kitchen utensils, originally prepared the cobbler pie in bowls hollowed out of wood.
These pies are especially popular in the American South. Each housewife has her own recipe for cooking a cobbler, differing in ingredients, while the cooking technology is almost identical and has the following features:
- Lack of a solid foundation … Unlike classic pies, in a cobbler, the prepared filling is placed immediately on the bottom of the baking dish. Since the bottom layer of the dough is absent, the calorie content of the dish is significantly reduced, which is very important for those with a sweet tooth on a diet.
- Filling … You can cook a cobbler from almost any berries and fruits. In classic recipes, one main filling ingredient is most often used, such as apples, peaches or cherries. Berry cobblers are made from blackberries, strawberries, or blueberries. In the author's recipes, you can find mixes of fruits and berries, as well as vegetable or meat filling.
- Taste enhancers … To make the cake more flavorful, you can add vanilla sugar and lemon zest to the dough, and sprinkle with cinnamon on top before baking. At your discretion, you can add other flavor enhancers, both in the dough and in the filling. Hot sauces, ketchup and various spices are often used in meat and vegetable pies.
TOP 7 delicious cobbler recipes
Having mastered the basic principles of making a pie, you can independently experiment with fillings and ingredients for the dough, creating your own author's recipe for a cobbler. Further, the most interesting and delicious options that have survived since the time of the British colonists.
Peach cobbler
The peach cobbler recipe is very popular in the American South. It is served warm, and to make the treat even tastier, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to each serving.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 177 kcal kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 80 minutes
Ingredients:
- Peaches - 0.8 kg
- Wheat flour - 0.8 tbsp.
- Sugar - 0.8 tbsp.
- Butter - 1/2 tbsp.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Corn starch - 1 tablespoon
- Lemon zest - 1 tsp
- Baking powder - 0.2 tsp
- Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - 1 pinch
Cooking peach cobbler step by step:
- Prepare the peaches: wash and peel them. To make it go away easier, pour boiling water over the fruit. Cut the peeled fruit into large wedges.
- Fill them with 0.2 tbsp. sugar so that they over time let juice.
- Add starch to the prepared filling.
- To make the peach cobbler dough, beat the remaining sugar and butter with a mixer.
- Add the egg, lemon zest, vanilla essence to the beaten mass, beat again.
- Add flour, baking powder, salt and knead the dough.
- Place the peach filling on a baking sheet and cover with the dough. You can also lay out the dough not in a continuous layer, but in separate dumplings.
- Put the pie in a preheated oven and bake for about 50 minutes at a temperature of 190 ° C.
Peach cobbler can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from canned fruits, then the stage of preparing the filling is excluded. The finished cake goes well with ice cream, yogurt or milk.
Apple cobbler
Cobbler with apples has its own separate name - the dessert "Brown Betty" ("Mulatto Betty" or "brown Betty"). It will appeal to everyone who loves charlotte, manna, muffins and other pastries stuffed with apples. The peculiarity of the dessert is that the top layer is not dough, but a mixture of bread crumbs and butter. To make the crust crisp and textured, instead of using commercial bread crumbs, use the oven to dry and crush the crumb yourself. Flavored apple cobbler is served with tea immediately after preparation.
Ingredients:
- Granny Smith or Braeburn apples - 6 pcs.
- Breadcrumbs - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
- Brown sugar - 1 + 1/4 tbsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Ground nutmeg - 1/8 tsp
- Ground allspice - 1/8 tsp
- Ground cloves - 1/4 tsp
- Juice of 2-3 lemons
Cooking apple cobbler step by step:
- Prepare your apples. Wash them, peel and core them.
- Cut the peeled fruit into slices, place in a medium-sized container, add the zest of 1 lemon and the lemon juice prepared in advance. The amount of juice depends on the acidity of the selected apples.
- In a separate bowl, mix the breadcrumbs with butter, add a little salt to the mixture.
- In the third container, mix the ground spices with brown sugar. Combine the resulting mixture with apples.
- Grease a baking dish with butter. This can be a large baking sheet with high sides, or shallow tins for crème brulee.
- The apple filling is tightly placed on the bottom of the mold, a mixture of butter and breadcrumbs is poured on top.
- The mold is tightly covered with aluminum foil, placed in an oven preheated to 175 ° C on the middle level. The cake is baked for 35-40 minutes.
- When the apples are soft and easily pierced with a knife, remove the foil, increase the oven temperature to 220 ° C and continue baking until a golden crust forms on the cake.
This is a classic apple cobbler recipe, but if you don't want to mess with baking breadcrumbs, you can replace them with a mixture of 1, 25 tbsp. flour and 0.75 tbsp. brown sugar. The finished cake is served while still warm and goes well with any kind of ice cream.
Cherry cobbler
Cherry cobbler will turn out fragrant and tasty, even if you take not fresh, but canned cherries. If you plan to prepare a dessert for guests, the top layer can be made from figures of teddy bears, stars or any other shape cut out of dough. To do this, you need special cookie cutters.
Ingredients:
- Cherries - 1, 4 kg
- Granulated sugar - 0.3 kg
- Water - 180 ml
- Corn starch - 4, 5 tablespoons
- Salt - 1.5 tsp
- Baking powder - 1 tbsp. l.
- Butter - 80 g
- Wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
- Milk - 1 tbsp.
Cooking Cherry Cobbler Step by Step:
- Separate the berries from the stalks, wash and remove the seeds from them.
- Place the pitted cherries in a sieve on a large bowl. Pour the juice out of them into a glass. All you need is 3/4 cup of juice. If frozen cherries are used, they are also held on a sieve until completely defrosted.
- Mix sugar and starch in a separate container.
- Pour cherry juice into a glass and dilute it with water.
- Slowly pour the cherry solution into the sugar-starch mixture, add salt, stir.
- Place the mixture on medium heat and bring to a boil with constant stirring, then cook the sauce until thickened.
- Remove the thickened syrup from the stove and add cherries to it.
- Put the cherry filling in the prepared glass dish and put it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Add diced cold butter to the flour and beat the dough with a blender until crumbly. If you don't have a blender, you can chop the butter with a knife.
- Milk is gradually poured into the resulting crumb. The dough should come off the walls.
- The finished dough is rolled out into a flat cake 2-2.5 cm thick, from which various figures are cut out with the help of molds.
- The dough figures are randomly placed on the berry cobbler over the filling. Since the dough will increase in volume in the oven, place the figures at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other.
- From above the dough is greased with milk and sprinkled with granulated sugar.
- Dessert is baked for 15 minutes. As soon as the dough rises and is browned, it can be removed from the oven and served.
Cherry cobbler can be garnished with whipped cream if desired, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream can be offered to guests for each portion.
Egg cobbler
The egg cobbler recipe uses fruit pie technology, but uses vegetables, bacon, and beaten eggs as the filling. Thus, you will not get a dessert, but a delicious and nutritious breakfast. If you do not know how to please your family in the morning and at the same time spend a minimum of time, take this recipe into service.
Ingredients:
- White sliced loaf - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Ham - 0.5 kg
- Hard cheese - 150 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Milk - 150 ml
- Salt, pepper, nutmeg - to taste
Cooking an egg cobbler step by step:
- Grease each piece of loaf with a thin layer of oil.
- Put pieces of loaf "on edge" in a greased form with high sides in a circle.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into thin slices, and cut the ham into slices.
- Between the pieces of loaf, 1 piece of tomato and ham are also placed "on the edge".
- Beat eggs with milk, add salt and your favorite seasonings.
- Pour the beaten eggs over the ham and tomato loaf.
- Rub the cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle a loaf with it on top.
- Place the cobbler in the oven and bake until the omelet is cooked and the cheese is browned.
The Egg Cobbler is a delicious breakfast that everyone in your family will love. It is hearty and tasty and takes very little time to prepare. Garnish with fresh herbs before serving.
Chocolate cobbler
The peculiarity of the chocolate cobbler is that the dough for its preparation must be sufficiently liquid. Despite this, after baking, it turns out to be very soft and tasty, and it takes only 55 minutes to cook 10 servings.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Cocoa powder - 7 tablespoons
- Sugar - 3/4 tbsp.
- Milk - 1/2 tbsp.
- Vanilla extract - 2/3 tsp
- Hot water - 1 tbsp.
Step by step preparation of a chocolate cobbler:
- In a deep container, mix flour, baking powder, salt, 3 tbsp. cocoa and sugar.
- Add milk, melted butter and vanillin to the mixture. Knead the dough until smooth.
- Distribute the resulting mass evenly over the bottom of the mold.
- In a separate container, mix half a glass of white sugar, brown sugar and cocoa leftovers.
- Sprinkle the resulting mixture evenly over the dough in the mold.
- Gently pour water on top of the cake, do not stir.
- Place the dish in a preheated oven and bake for 40 minutes at 175 ° C.
The chocolate dessert is served a few minutes after being removed from the oven. Each serving can be garnished with ice cream or syrup.
Berry cobbler
When cooking, the recipe for a strawberry cobbler is taken as a basis. Since strawberries lose their aroma after heat treatment, in order to make the taste of the cake more pronounced, you can add aromatic blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and other forest and garden berries to the filling.
Ingredients:
- Berry mixture - 10 tbsp
- Corn starch - 6 tablespoons
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Soda - 1/2 tsp
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Flour - 3 tbsp.
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Butter - 120 g
- Milk - 180 ml
Step by step preparation of berry cobbler:
- Rinse and dry the berries. If strawberries are used in the recipe for cobbler with berries, after drying they need to be cut into pieces, the rest of the fruits can be used whole.
- Mix sugar with starch.
- Place the berries in a large saucepan and sprinkle with the sugar-starch mixture.
- Put the saucepan over medium heat, cook the berries until the juice softens and thickens. Stir the mixture constantly.
- Spray the baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Put the berry mixture on the bottom of the mold.
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- Grind the diced butter with the flour mixture until crumbled.
- Beat the egg in a separate container and mix it with milk.
- Combine the egg mixture with flour and knead a thick sticky dough.
- Divide the dough into parts and spread it on top of the berry mixture, leaving a certain distance between the "dumplings", since it will swell a little during the baking process.
- Sprinkle sugar on top of the dough.
- The pie is placed in a preheated oven and baked for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 190 ° C. When the dough is browned and the berries are boiling, the dessert is ready.
Cobbler with berries is best eaten warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, but you can easily leave it for later. The pie is stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container.
Cheese cobbler
A feature of the cheese cobbler is the addition of grated hard cheese to the dough, and there are 2 varieties of this pie, differing in the filling. If you use apples, you end up with an apple-cheese dessert. You can also make a cheese cobbler with meat filling: this hearty and tasty dish will decorate any table.
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 0.5 kg
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
- Onions - 0.5 kg
- Ketchup - 2 tablespoons
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Butter - 100 g
- Hard cheese - 150 g
- Tabasco sauce - 1 tsp
- Salt, pepper, bay leaf
Step by step preparation of cheese cobbler:
- Sunflower oil is heated in a frying pan. Onions are fried in it until golden brown, minced meat is added, 2 tbsp. flour, ketchup, salt, pepper and bay leaf. The filling is fried until the minced meat is half cooked.
- In a deep bowl, grind the flour with chilled butter to a crumb consistency.
- Salt, Tabasco sauce and pre-grated cheese are added to the flour mixture. If the dough is hard, add a little water to soften it.
- Minced meat is laid out on the bottom of the form.
- The mold is placed in a preheated oven and baked for 20-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.
- Make a sausage from the dough and cut it into pieces 2 cm thick.
- Remove the form with the filling from the oven and lay the dough cakes on top of the minced meat.
- Bake the dish for another 35-40 minutes. When the dough is golden brown and golden, the cobbler is ready.
Cheese cobbler with minced meat is often made for Thanksgiving in the United States. However, this hearty and delicious cake is easy and quick to prepare, so we recommend not waiting for a special occasion, like Americans, but to please your household as quickly as possible.
