Blackberry Cobbler
From Aleximoon's recipes
Submitted on Tuesday, August 27 2002, 01:45 pm

Ingredients
For the filling
6 cups blackberries (or a mix black/blue/raspberry)
1/3 cup sugar
1 T all purpose flour
1 tsp lemon zest
pinch of salt

for topping
1-1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
6 T unsalted butter (melted and cooled) (3/4 stick)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions
preheat oven to 375°. lightly grease a baking dish.
for filling: in a bowl, toss berries with sugar, flour, zest, and salt. pour into dish.
for topping: in a bowl stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. in another bowl, whisk egg, buttermilk, butter, and vanilla. pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients; fold gently to form a soft dough. drop heaps of dough onto fruit, spacing evenly (dough will not completely cover fruit). bake until fruit is bubbling and topping is browned (about 45 minutes).

note: this is überpimp with vanilla icecream...dont make me do the iron chef on you... :-)


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