Spiced Pear Cobbler with Raspberries - a delicious cold weather, comfort food cobbler featuring a delicious marriage of flavours.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
North American
Prep Time20minutes
Cook Time25minutes
Total Time45minutes
Servings6or more servings
AuthorBarry C. Parsons
Ingredients
For the spiced pears
2tbspbutter
6inlarge pearspeeled cored and cut large wedges
1/2cupbrown sugar
1tspcinnamon
1/4tspcloves
1tspfreshly grated nutmeg
For the cobbler dough
1 1/2cupsflour
2tspbaking powder
1/2tspsalt
1/2cupsugar
1cupvery cold buttercut in small pieces
3/4cupwhipping cream
1tspvanilla extract
Additionally you will need
1pintfresh or frozen raspberries
Instructions
To prepare the spiced pears
Melt the butter in a large saute pan and then tossĀ in remaining ingredients for the spiced pears.
Salute together over medium heat until the pears are just warmed through. This will give them a bit of a head start in cooking before adding the cobbler dough on top.
Transfer hot pears to a 9x9 (or larger if necessarbaking dish.
For the Cobbler dough
In a food processor combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Using the pulse button on the food processor cut in the butter.
Pulse until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. ( If you don't own a food processor, you can cut the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or even a couple of knives.)
To the flour/butter mixture add the whipping cream mixed with the vanilla extract.
Fold in the cream just until a soft dough forms. Do not overwork the dough or it will become too tough. Less is more here and the less you work the dough, the lighter your cobbler will turn out.
Drop the cobbler dough in heaping tablespoonfuls onto the hot fruit mixture in a 9x9 nbaking dish.
Sprinkle the raspberries over the cobbler dough.
Bake at 350 degreed F for aboutĀ 25-35 minutes or until the top is evenly golden brown and the fruit is bubbling.
Let the cobbler rest for 10-15 minutes before serving warm with some good French Vanilla ice cream.