Description
This recipe was inspired by one from Renee Erickson’s in cookbook, ‘A Boat, a Whale, and a Walrus.’ It’s a lot crispier than a regular cobbler, and you can use the technique for other fruit cobblers. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
Ingredients
- 6 large fresh peaches, pitted and cut into eighths
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- 1 ⅓ cups self-rising flour
- ⅓ cup rolled oats
- ⅔ cup whole milk
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons cold water, or as needed to wet topping sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Place a baking sheet on the rack under the middle rack to catch drips. Generously butter a 2-inch deep (2-quart) baking dish.
- Place peach sections into prepared baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice and zest.
- Stir butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl. Mix until creamed and resembles a sugary
- buttery paste
- 4 to 5 minutes. Add oats and flour; stir until flour and oats are incorporated into the butter-sugar mixture and mixture resembles coarse crumbs
- 4 to 5 minutes. Pour in milk; stir until mixture is wet and creamy
- like a thick spreadable batter
- 3 to 4 minutes.
- Drop batter by spoonful on top of the peaches. Spread batter evenly over the surface of the peaches. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar on the batter. Spritz with water until sugar is wet and surface glistens.
- Bake in preheated oven on middle rack until browned and crispy
- about 45 minutes. Let cool at least 30 minutes before serving.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Servings: 8