Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Blueberry-Peach Cobbler

Blueberry-Peach Cobbler from Cooking Light Day-to-Day Calendar 2013


Ingredients:
5 pounds peaches, peeled, pitted, and sliced
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3/4 cup granulated sugar and 1/4 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons flour and 1 1/2 cups flour
Cooking spray
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter softened
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups fresh blueberries
2 tablespoons turbinado sugar

Instructions:
1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2.  Place peaches in large bowl.
3.  Drizzle with fresh lemon juice and toss.
4.  Add 3/4 cup granulated sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons flour and toss to combine.
5.  Spray 13 x 9 inch glass or ceramic baking dish with cooking spray.
6.  Arrange peach mixture in baking dish evenly.
7.  In a medium bowl, combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and baking powder.  Stir well with whisk.
8.  Place 1/4 cup granulated sugar and butter in a medium bowl and beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about two minutes).
9.  Add eggs, one at a time, to flour mixture, beating well after each addition.
10.   Stir in vanilla extract.
11.  Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to the butter/egg mixture.  Begin and end with flour mixture, beating until just combined.
12.  Stir in blueberries.
13.  Spread batter evenly over mixture.
14.  Sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
15.  Place baking dish on foil lined baking sheet in case fruit bubbles over.
16.  Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour or until topping is golden and filling is bubbly.
17.  Enjoy.

Mark's Notes
At the beginning of the year, I bought a Cooking Light Day Calendar with lots of recipes for lots of different stuff.  It's July and this is the first recipe I've had an opportunity to try.  I other recipes piled up in my collection of recipes I still would like to try.  Reading over this recipe, my first question was what in the world is turbinado sugar.  This is my first time using turbinado sugar.  I did some research on the Internet and it is just a sugar that is less processed than white or brown sugar (some sites claimed it was healthier - I'll need to do more research on that one).

Here is a link to the Cooking Light Day-to-Day 2014 Calendar via Barnes and Nobles.  It's going on my Christmas list.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2689907419221?r=1&cm_mmca2=pla&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-Book_5To14-_-Q000000633-_-2689907419221