Holiday Cobbler
I think it must be my Swedish genes, but I *love* tart fruits. Give me rhubarb or cranberries anyday and I’ll be in seventh heaven. A few weeks ago we saw the first bags of cranberries in the grocery store. I’ve had this great dessert idea in my head for a couple of months now and I’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the cranberries. However, my idea is a form of cobbler which is best fresh from the oven and we haven’t had people over for a while. But, on Friday a couple friends came over for dinner and some games and I finally got around to trying my hand at cranberry gingerbread cobbler!
Basically I used my family’s peach cobbler recipe, added gingerbread spices to the batter and orange juice and orange zest to the cranberries. Next time I’ll tweak a few things such as pre-cooking the cranberries as I would for my cranberry sauce, but cooking them only until they pop. I’d also up the spices and molasses a bit more. For those feeling adventurous, the recipe as I’ll make it next time is below…
Kristi’s Holiday Cobbler
Fruit:
1 - 12oz bag Cranberries
Zest and Juice from 1 Orange
1/2 C Sugar
~ 1 T Flour or Cornstarch
Batter:
1 Stick Butter
1 C Flour
1 C Sugar
1 C Milk
1/2 C Molasses
2 t Baking Powder
1/2 T Ground Ginger
1/2 t Ground Clove
1/2 t Ground All Spice
1/4 t Grated Nutmeg
1/4 t Ground Cinnamon
1/2 t Salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Place fruit ingredients in saucepan on medium heat. Heat gently until many of the cranberries have burst, and remove from heat.
Melt butter in a 9X9 glass baking pan in the preheating oven. Mix the batter with the remaining ingredients. It should be about the consistency of thin pancake batter.
Pour batter into the baking pan followed immediately by the fruit mixture. DO NOT STIR. Place back in oven and bake for about 45 minutes.
Let cool 15 minutes. Best served the day of baking, slightly warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
It may be a while before we have enough people over to make it worth baking again, so if you give it a try drop me a line and let me know how it was! Enjoy!
