Monday, May 17, 2010

Hawaiian Cobbler

I love cobblers. In fact, cobbler was one of the first desserts I had baked since it needs no eggs.I have made peach cobbler, blue berry cobbler. That's about it. I had almost forgotten about the cobbler till today. I had some ripe mangoes to be used which, my kids will consume if and only if I made mango lassi or mango milk shake. I wanted to bake something with it, but not a cup cake or muffin or bread. When I was still thinking about what to make, I saw that I had bananas too on the counter. 'Hawaiian' flavor is what came to my mind. All I needed was to add some pineapple and some coconut. To be honest, I cannot praise this cobbler in any words. This was out of this world.

Ingredients:
For the fruit mixture:
  • Ripe Mango - 1 peeled, seeded and cut into cubes
  • Crushed pineapple - 3/4 cup drained. You can use fresh pineapple cut into cubes or use canned pineapple tidbits too
  • Banana - 1 sliced
  • Sweetened shredded coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Sugar - 1/4 cup
  • Corn Starch - 1/4 cup

For the biscuit/cake part:
  • All purpose flour - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 1/2 cup (You can use 1/3 cup since this was plenty sweet)
  • Salt - 1/2 tsp
  • Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
  • Butter milk - 1/2 cup (I took home made yogurt and thinned it down with water to get this)
  • Vanilla - 1 tsp
  • Cold butter - 4 TBSP or 1/2 a stick

Method:
Preheat the oven to 350 F. (375 F if using aluminum pan. I was using glass pan) Mix all the ingredients mentioned in the 'For the fruit mixture' part. Let it sit for couple of minutes. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt. Whisk together. Cut in cold butter to this mixture until it resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk and vanilla and stir to combine. This will be a sticky mass. Pour the fruit mixture to a 8 X 8 pan. Drop the biscuit/ cake dough in spoonfuls on the top of the fruit mixture. Spread to cover the entire fruit mixture. Bake in the oven for 35 - 40 minutes or till golden brown on the top. Make sure to check the center so that it is done. Cool for couple of minutes and then slice. This is best served warm. You could serve it with ice cream, but we ate it as it is and it was pretty tasty.

Happy Baking!!

22 comments:

  1. Very delicious fruit cobbler.

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  2. Missed your baked goodies,happy that you are back.

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  3. perfectly baked cake..love it...awesome..can i hv tht piece....

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  4. Very unique name! looks too good. Champa I have just posted Cookies for your Bake -Off event. Already sent you the details to your mail id.
    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  5. Want to eat that....me too love cobblers....love the ease of making these....it's been long time since I made one, now as u have reminded....will be making it soon....

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  6. holy moly !!! can I please get a piece of it? I mean I am literally drooling over it.

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  7. Looks delicious and tempting. Even though I have given baking a break becoz of the hot weather, I think your description will make me go for it.

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  8. Thanks for bringing to us wonderful bakes,loved the recipe.

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  9. Beautiful cobbler, love the exotic cobbler anytime...would like to have a piece now:)..

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  10. I have never had cobbler, but after seeing this recipe, I feel like having it :) Delicious!

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  11. Looks so good!! Gotta try this out.

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  12. very tempting.. bookmarked..this looks healthier than cake.. m going to make it soon.. thanks for sharing..

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  13. Cobbler is a fav and it works with any fruit right...

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  14. Champa gr8 looking dessert that too with mangoes....bookmarked:)

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  15. Champa, I donno what a cobbler is but they look delicious. A beautiful desert :)

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  16. True hawaiian flavour n beautiful clicks

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  17. Umm..Splendid Mango Cobbler! it looks simply fabulous! You are on a Mango roll I guess..Mango bread, Mango cobbler..Lovely!

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  18. love the cobler!! scoop us a spoon plzz:)

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  19. Wow... definitely have to try making this. Thank you for another wonderful recipe.

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  20. tried your cobbler recipe.turned gr8!!thanks

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