Cast Iron Huckleberry Cobbler Food

CAST-IRON HUCKLEBERRY COBBLER

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet in oven, about 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, toss huckleberries with 2 tablespoons sugar in a medium bowl. Whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and remaining 1 cup sugar in a large bowl. Add milk and vanilla. Remove skillet from oven and add melted butter to flour mixture; whisk until just combined. Pour batter into skillet; top with huckleberries and juices.
• Bake until golden brown and fruit is bubbling, 40 to 45 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

CAST-IRON BERRY CRISP

Steps:

• Prepare the berries: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 12-inch cast-iron skillet with butter and set aside. In a mixing bowl, combine the berries, granulated sugar, flour, lemon zest and balsamic vinegar. Pour into the pan and smooth into an even layer.
• Make the topping: In another mixing bowl, mix both sugars, the flour, oats, cinnamon and salt. Cut in the butter until you have a coarse crumb and the flour is fully hydrated. Sprinkle this mixture evenly and loosely over the top of the berries. Bake, uncovered, until golden brown, crisp and bubbling, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit at least 10 minutes before serving.

IRON SKILLET BLACKBERRY COBBLER

Steps:

• For piecrust, combine flour and salt; cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
• Sprinkle water, 1 T at a time, evenly over surface; stir with a fork just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Roll piecrust to 1/4 inch thickness.
• Fit into a 10-inch cast iron skillet.
• Trim excess pastry along edges, reserving trimmings.
• Prick bottom and sides of piecrust with a fork.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes.
• Remove from oven; set aside.
• Cut butter into flour with a pastry blender until crumbly; add 1/2 c sugar.
• Place 1/3 of berries in piecrust; sprinkle with about 1/3 remaining sugar.
• Sprinkle with 1/3 flour mixture.
• Top with 1/3 of pastry trimmings.
• Repeat layers twice.
• Sprinkle with additional sugar.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until crust is lightly browned.

CAST-IRON BLUEBERRY COBBLER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the butter in an 10-inch cast-iron skillet and transfer to the preheated oven to melt.
• Meanwhile, mix together the flour, baking powder, lavender and salt in a bowl. Stir in the milk, 1 cup sugar, the lemon juice, zest and vanilla to combine. Mix together the remaining tablespoon sugar and the blueberries in another bowl. Remove the hot skillet with the melted butter from the oven and pour in the batter. Top with the sugared blueberries. Bake until brown and the batter has risen up and around the fruit, about 30 minutes.
• Transfer to a rack to cool slightly. Serve with vanilla bean ice cream or lightly sweetened whipped cream.

RECIPE: HUCKLEBERRY COBBLER

Steps:

• Make the filling: Preheat the oven to 350º and grease a 10-inch cast-iron skillet with butter. In a medium bowl, mix together the huckleberries, sugar, cornstarch, lime juice, lime zest, salt and vanilla seeds to coat. Let sit while you prepare the topping.
• Make the topping: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Using your fingers, work the butter into the flour mixture until pea-size clumps form. Stir in the milk and macadamia nuts to form a dough.
• Toss the berry mixture again now that the sugar has started to pull out the juices of the berries. Transfer to the greased skillet and scoop heaping tablespoonfuls of dough evenly over the filling. Bake until golden and bubbling, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

HUCKLEBERRY COBBLER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Generously butter an 8'' (1 ½ quart) glass pie plate. In a medium bowl, toss together berries, lemone zest, sugar, lemon juice and cornstarch until well mixed. Transfer filling to prepared pie plate.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and nutmeg. Add cream and stir until micture begins to form a dought, making sure NOT to over mix. Drop ¼ Celsius dollops of dough onto the berry micture. Bake on center rack in oven for 25 minutes or until topping is golden brown.