This is my husband’s favorite cobbler, his sister Shelley’s recipe. With her permission I’m sharing with all of you. It’s soft biscuit like texture is so good slightly warmed with our homemade vanilla bean ice cream recipe. The pictures included are using blackberries fresh from her garden. Thank you Shelley!
Yield: 12 servings
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Old-Fashioned Blackberry Cobbler
- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Yield: 12 1x
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Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 cups flour
- 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoons of salt
- 1 cup of shortening
- 2/3 cup milk
- 4 cups fresh blackberries
- 1.5 to 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Vegetable oil or cooking spray to grease pan
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 12x9x2 baking dish
- Combine sugar and water in saucepan and stir well
- Cook sugar water over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves, then remove from heat and set aside
- Melt butter in microwave and add to baking dish
- Cut shortening into flour until mixture resembles course meal
- Add milk, stirring just until dry ingredients are mixxed
- Scrape down sides of bowl with spatula to make sure all incorporated
- Knead dough 4 or 5 times until mixture comes together into a rough ball
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface
- Roll dough into 12 x 9 rectangle
- You can cut off those areas larger to fill areas short, slightly moisten joint with water and press together
- Spread blackberries over dough longways straight down center
- Sprinkle with cinnamon
- Roll up jelly roll fashion beginning with long side
- Cut dough into 12, 1 inch slices
- Dental floss pulled opposite directions works great
- Place slices cut side down in the melted butter in the baking dish
- Pour sugar syrup around slices
- Bake at 350 degrees for 55 or 60 minutes until golden brown and toothpick inserted into middle dough comes out clean
- Category: Cobbler
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: old fashioned blackberry cobbler, blackberry cobbler pinwheels
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Tips and tricks: When baking bread like desserts, I’ve found a light colored baking pan works best. Dark pans tend to burn, glass tends to stick. Simple plastic rolling pins don’t seem to stick as bad as wood, metal, or marble.