It's been a busy summer with camping, visiting family, and the arrival of a new baby granddaughter. It's also been an extra hot summer, and with no air conditioning in our house I haven't felt much like baking. But on our July camping trip we enjoyed some delicious cherry cobbler prepared by my husband. We aren't big fans of the overly sweet and chemical laden cobbler made by dumping a cake mix on top of pie filling or fruit in a Dutch oven, so this is the way we prepare it like a "real" cobbler. Still super easy and delicious. A spray of whipped cream tops it off wonderfully.
You can make this cobbler with either prepared pie filling or bottled/canned fruit. Just oil the Dutch oven and dump in the amount or fruit or pie filling you want. (On this trip there were only four of us so we just did one can of cherry pie filling.....but wished we had doubled that!) Next, prepare a recipe of biscuit dough with 1/2 cup of sugar, or more if you want it sweeter, and a teaspoon or two of cinnamon. Add extra milk to make the dough a consistency that will drop easily from a spoon. You can also use a biscuit mix, adding the sugar and cinnamon and extra milk. Top the fruit with the sweetened biscuit topping. Then just cook in a medium Dutch oven until the biscuit topping is cooked through.
Sorry I don't have a more "official" recipe - but isn't improvising a lot of the fun of cooking while camping?
You can make this cobbler with either prepared pie filling or bottled/canned fruit. Just oil the Dutch oven and dump in the amount or fruit or pie filling you want. (On this trip there were only four of us so we just did one can of cherry pie filling.....but wished we had doubled that!) Next, prepare a recipe of biscuit dough with 1/2 cup of sugar, or more if you want it sweeter, and a teaspoon or two of cinnamon. Add extra milk to make the dough a consistency that will drop easily from a spoon. You can also use a biscuit mix, adding the sugar and cinnamon and extra milk. Top the fruit with the sweetened biscuit topping. Then just cook in a medium Dutch oven until the biscuit topping is cooked through.
Sorry I don't have a more "official" recipe - but isn't improvising a lot of the fun of cooking while camping?
2 comments:
...and it was most delicious but, yes, there wasn't nearly enough! In two weeks, I double the recipe!!
This really was a treat when we were camping. Friend did a terrific job...maybe we will have to repeat for August....
Mary
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