The Best Christmas Cobbler smells like cinnamon, cloves, and a mixture of apples with plums. Every bite of the Christmas cobbler takes you closer to Christmas and doing sweet nothing – just eating great meals and desserts. This cobbler is easy, crunchy, crispy, sweet, fruity and just PERFECT!
INGREDIENTS:
Filling
- 5 big apples
- 150 g cranberries
- 680 g canned plums
- 1 tbsp vanilla syrup
- lemon juice from ½ of the lemon
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 mug brown sugar
- 1 tsp grounded cloves
- ½ tbsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp cardamom
Cobbler topping
- 240 g flour
- 70 g granulated sugar
- 20 g vanilla sugar
- ½ tsp grounded cloves
- 2 tsps baking powder
- 130 ml milk
- 160 g cold butter
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
The best Christmas cobbler is made out of apples, plums and cranberries. With a generous amount of brown sugar, vanilla syrup and all-delicious Christmas spices, you can have a slice of it in 2 hours. It smells like the best flavourful Christmas tea. Full of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom.
Take a bowl full of Christmas cobbler with a scoop of ice cream and enjoy the taste of Christmas.
what is a cobbler?
Cobbler is a sweet and fruity dessert consisting of two layers. One layer is spiced fruit with sugar, covered by sweet vanilla dough. I sprinkled the dough with brown sugar before baking and it was amazing. The baked dough is soft and crunchy on the edges.
I think this dessert is absolutely perfect. It has everything – the cinnamon smell, nice fruity taste, caramelized juices making bubbles.. Just a chef’s kiss. I recommend eating it with a scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream.
How to make the best Christmas cobbler:
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Prepare a flan pan greased with butter.
Filling
Chop up apples and canned plums into smaller pieces. Put them into one bowl with cranberries, spices, flour, cornstarch, vanilla syrup, sugar, and lemon juice, and stir well. Put aside.
Cobbler topping
In another bowl mix with your hands butter, flour, sugar, and spices until the consistency of flour.
Make a little space in the middle of the mixture. Pour milk, vanilla syrup, and lemon juice. Start working on the dough by slowly adding more and more flour. The final consistency should be wet cookie dough. The dough should be sticky, so you can form it into the shape of flat dough. If your dough is too wet, add more flour. If it’s too dry, add more milk.
Pour filling into the flan pan. You should leave at least 5 cm of space from the top of the flan pan. No worries, you can eat the filling with a fork with a scoop of ice cream. Put flattened dough on top of the cobbler.
Bake for 35-45 minutes – when the dough starts to get brown. Take the cobbler out of the oven and let cool completely. Serve with a scoop of ice cream.
WHAT I RECOMMEND doing FOR THE BEST CHRISTMAS COBBLER:
- bigger or smaller pieces of fruit – it’s up to you and your flan pan. I cut mine into smaller pieces because I wasn’t sure how much space this fruit will take over in the flan pan. I recommend leaving 5 cm of space from the edges of the flan pan because then you must cover the fruit with flat dough, and leave some space for the juices.
- what fruit you should use – I went for apples and plums because every Christmas tea (that smells REALLY GOOD) has a combination of plums with apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves. I know this is not the season of plums, but you can still use canned plums. If you would go for a different fruit that is not canned, use 1 extra cup of sugar. Keep in mind – you can still taste the raw fruit mix. The fruit you can use – is peaches or pineapple.
- the dough is too wet/dry – when I first tried this recipe, I used too much milk and the dough ended up extremely wet. So I added tons of flour and totally forgot to take notes. So, if your dough is still too wet, add more flour. If the dough is too dry – add more milk.
- use EXTRA cold butter for the dough
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The Best Christmas Cobbler
Ingredients
Filling
- 5 big apples
- 150 g cranberries
- 680 g canned plums
- 1 tbsp vanilla syrup
- lemon juice from ½ of the lemon
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 mug brown sugar
- 1 tsp grounded cloves
- ½ tbsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp cardamom
Cobbler topping
- 240 g flour
- 70 g granulated sugar
- 20 g vanilla sugar
- ½ tsp grounded cloves
- 2 tsps baking powder
- 130 ml milk
- 160 g cold butter
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Prepare a flan pan greased with butter.
Filling
- Chop up apples and canned plums into smaller pieces. Put them into one bowl with cranberries, spices, flour, cornstarch, vanilla syrup, sugar, and lemon juice, and stir well. Put aside.
Cobbler topping
- In another bowl mix with your hands butter, flour, sugar, and spices until the consistency of flour.
- Make a little space in the middle of the mixture. Pour milk, vanilla syrup, and lemon juice. Start working on the dough by slowly adding more and more flour. The final consistency should be wet cookie dough. The dough should be sticky, so you can form it into the shape of flat dough. If your dough is too wet, add more flour. If it's too dry, add more milk.
- Pour filling into the flan pan. You should leave at least 5 cm space from the top of the flan pan. No worries, you can eat the filling with a fork with a scoop of ice cream. Put flattened dough on top of the cobbler.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes – when the dough starts to get brown. Take the cobbler out of the oven and let cool completely. Serve with a scoop of ice cream.
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