Blackberry Cobbler - #Berrylove Bloghop

Today I'm going to share with you the new found love of my life, the 'Fruit Cobbler'.How else would you explain the fact that in the past month I've made it not once or twice or thrice but 5 times(with different fruits)!! I'm not kidding!Its THAT good and with Berry for our theme for this month's bloghop, I knew exactly what I was going to be making :)

Cobbler is a classic American deep-dish fruit Dessert where the fruits are either enclosed in a thick fluffy pillow of a butter batter or have a drop biscuit or crumb topping.While I've had the fruits with crumb toppings before, the fruits enclosed in the crust was new to me.

I tweaked the original recipe by cutting down on the butter and used Olive Oil instead in my batter and trust me it tasted delicious.I didn't miss the butter in my batter at all!I've made these using blackberries here,but you can use any seasonal fruit like apples, peaches,plums,mixed berries etc.The lemon sugar is the key in this recipe as it adds that sweet lemony touch to the Dessert!

The batter rises and covers up the fruit and the berries oozing out their gorgeous juices intermingling with the chewy moist crust!Oh the simple pleasures of life~


Blackberry Cobbler-Adapted from Scarletta Bakes via Cook's Country 
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Ingredients:


Unsalted Butter-2 tbsp cut into 4 pieces
Olive Oil-1/2 cup
Sugar-1 1/2 cup
Lemon Zest-1 1/2 tsp 
Blackberries-3 cups
All Purpose Flour-1 1/2 cups
Baking Powder- 2 1/2 tsp
Salt-1/4 tsp
Milk- 1 1/2 cups (I used 2%)


Process:


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.Place 2 tbsp of cut-up butter into a baking dish and transfer into the oven.Heat until the butter is melted.
Meanwhile mix the lemon zest with 1/4 cup of sugar in a bowl.Keep aside.

Combine flour, remaining sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.Whisk in the milk,olive oil into the flour mixture until smooth.Take the baking dish out of the oven and make sure to spread the melted butter evenly so that it coats the entire bottom of the dish.

Transfer the batter into the dish.Arrange the blackberries evenly over the top.As you can see my kids helped me out with this :).

Sprinkle the lemon sugar and bake until the golden brown edges are crisp about 40-45 mins.Cool and serve warm.

Enjoy!

April is #Berry-love month!Please join in the Berry-love fun by linking up any Berry recipes from the month of April 2012.Don't forget to link back to this post so that your readers come stop by the Berry-love event!
Co-hosting this Blog-hop with my fabulous friends listed below.Please stop-by their pages as well while you're here :)

A little bit of everything ~ Roxana GreenGirl ~ @RoxanaGreenGirl

Baker Street ~ Anuradha ~ @bakerstreet29

Baking and Cooking, A Tale of Two Loves ~ Becky Higgins

BigFatBaker ~ Erin Meyer ~ @bigfatbaker

Bon à croquer ~ Valerie ~ @valouth

Cake Duchess ~ Lora ~ @cakeduchess

Easily Good Eats ~ Three Cookies                                                     

Elephant Eats ~ Amy
Georgie Cakes ~ Georgie ~ @GeorgieCakes

Hobby And More ~ Richa ~ @betit19

Java Cupcake ~ Betsy Eves ~ @JavaCupcake

Mis Pensamientos ~ Junia ~ @juniakk

No One Likes Crumbley Cookies ~ T.R. ~ @TRCrumbley

Oh Cake ~ Jessica ~ @jesshose

Queen's Notebook ~ Elizabeth  Quirino ~ @Mango_Queen

Rico sin Azúcar ~ Helena ~ @ricosinazucar

Simply Reem ~  Reem ~ @Simplyreem

Soni's Food for Thought ~ Soni ~ @sonisfood

Teaspoon of Spice ~ Deanna Segrave-Daly ~ @tspbasil

That Skinny Chick Can Bake!!! ~ Liz ~ @thatskinnychick

The Art of Cooking Real Food ~ Laura ~ @TAofCRF

Vegan Yack Attack ~ Jackie S. ~ @veganyackattack

Vegetarian Mamma ~ Cindy ~ @vegetarianmamma