This is the cobbler recipe my family turns to summer after summer. This summer fruit cobbler is a choose your own adventure recipe for any variety of summer fruit you happen to find. Last week we were lucky enough to have a visiting friend gift us a flat of ripe organic Reedley peaches, plums, and apricots. If you know, you know – Reedley peaches are the best. What we love about this recipe is that it uses the perfect amount of aromatics like lemon juice and cinnamon to bring out the complex fruit flavors, and the cobbler topping is earthy and comforting with whole wheat pastry flour.
The recipe is inspired by Deborah Madison’s classic cookbook Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. The original edition was one of my first cookbooks, and will forever be a standby in my kitchen.
Summer Fruit Cobbler
Ingredients
For the Fruit
- 6-8 cups peeled and sliced ripe summer stone fruit (any combination of peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, or blueberries)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup flour
- grated zest of 1 lemon
For the Cobbler Topping
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cold butter cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla