Tuesdays With Dorie - Mixed Berry Cobbler

It's Tuesdays with Dorie time again! This was my first time making a cobbler and from the look of the photo in the book, it looked more like a fruit soup topped with a pie crust. Needless to say, it wasn’t one of the recipes that had caught my eye so I decided to tweak it a bit and end up with something that might suit my taste a bit better.

I started by halving the recipe, cutting the butter a bit and replacing it with some Quark cheese, and I used whole milk instead of cream. Then I decided to use half whole wheat flour, half all purpose, added some vanilla extract and used a bit more sugar than was called for. I ended up with a dough that was a bit stickier, like a dumpling, which is what I wanted. For the filling I used a mix of fresh fruit : cherries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. I mixed it up with some sugar, cornstarch, lime zest and a bit of lime juice.

I divided the fruit filling into baking dishes, topped it with my dumpling-like dough and sprinkled it with some coarse sugar. I ended up with more of an upside down fruit cake which was quite delicious with a bit of whipped cream. Using the soft cheese and a bit of vanilla in the dough gave it a lot of flavor. Of course, this might not be a traditional cobbler, but we liked it well enough.

The choice this week comes courtesy of Beth from Our sweet Life, you can find the recipe on her blog, or on NPR. For more takes on this dessert, check out the Tuesdays with Dorie blogroll.