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Rhubarb season is here! I found the most gorgeous ruby-colored rhubarb at the grocery store earlier this week, and knew that it was time. Rhubarb Red Berry Cobbler celebrates the magnificence of fresh rhubarb paired with sweet strawberries and raspberries. It’s all topped off with a sweet honey biscuit situation that is just very very scrumptious, especially topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
The best part about all of it is that this dessert is REALLY easy! I can’t say this about all my recipes, but I can about this one. Prep your fruit and toss it with a few ingredients, pour it in a pan. Then mix together just a few ingredients for the biscuits (you probably already have most of them lying around the house) and drop some biscuit dough on top. Bake it up, and you have warm sweet/tart cobbler that’s both tasty and gorgeous. No mixer required–this is all done by hand and spatula/spoon!
A biscuit love affair
This sweet biscuit dough is based roughly on my recipe for the super-addicting Blue Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits, although less cheesey (obviously), and heavier on the honey notes. It’s delicious atop this tart rhubarb, but also really good on its own! Double this recipe, use biscuit cutters, and bake them on a baking sheet at 400 degrees for 15 minutes-ish and you have one delicious sweet biscuit. I would know, I made them that way last night! No one was upset about it. Biscuits are the best.
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Rhubarb Red Berry Cobbler
Rhubarb Red Berry Cobbler is here to celebrate the fresh, tart flavor of in-season rhubarb! This cobbler is so easy to make, with a tart, jammy red fruit mixture and a sweet honey biscuit topping.
- Yield: 10 servings 1x
Ingredients
For the fruit:
- 4 cups chopped rhubarb (about 4 large stalks)
- 2 cups strawberries, hulled and quartered
- 6 oz raspberries
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 3 tbsp honey
For the sweet biscuit topping:
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 4 tbsp salted butter, frozen and grated
- 1/2 cup + 1/4 cups buttermilk, chilled and divided
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp Demerara sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. Grab a skillet or baking dish.
- Add your red fruits (rhubarb, strawberry, raspberry) to a large mixing bowl. Add honey, lemon, and cornstarch and toss to coat. Set aside.
- Make your sweet biscuit dough. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl. Add grated frozen butter and using your fingers, mix the butter with the dry ingredients until pea sized pieces of butter remain. Make a well and add chilled buttermilk and honey. Using a spatula or wooden spoon, fold and mix until the mixture just comes together.
- Assemble your cobbler. Pour all the fruits and juices into your dish. Using a medium cookie scoop (or heaping tablespoon), scoop biscuit dough onto the fruits, trying to evenly space the dough balls out. Note, the biscuit dough will expand so they don’t need to be touching. Push down on the biscuit dough slightly to flatten them out a bit.
- Brush dough ball tops with buttermilk and sprinkle with Demerara sugar.
- Bake cobbler at 375 degrees F for 40-50 minutes. At about 30 minutes, check on your cobbler for browning. Tent with foil if it is browning too quickly. Cobbler is done when the biscuits are browned and the fruit filling is bubbling and jammy.
- Allow to cool 10 minutes, then dig in! Serve warm a la mode.
Notes
- I made and served this cobbler in a 12 inch cast iron skillet. This quantity will also work well for a 9 inch square baking dish.
- I tented my cobbler 35 minutes in to control browning. You may or may not need to tent your cobbler towards the end, depending on your oven.
- Demerara sugar is a coarse, unrefined sugar which is light brown in color, slightly molasses-y in flavor, and delicious sprinkled on pretty much anything. Find it at your local gourmet grocery store or online.