I like love Winter when it's cold and frosty, the sun is shining and the sky is blue, the grass crunches with frost underfoot and the birds are tweeting in the skeletal trees. And, despite the past week where it's been grim and grey, today it was just like that! We went to Roath Park in Cardiff for The Boy to practise some more on his balance bike, we fed the swans and the ducks, we froze our little noses and ears off, and then we went to soft-play.
Then we came home, had a little rest and I made a dinner ready for Nana and Grandad to join us. I decided on some serious warming food for a seriously Wintery day! Vegetable stew and dumplings, followed by this little beauty:
Plum, Pear & Apple Cobbler
Ingredients:
Serves 4-6
- 500g plums, stoned & quartered
- 300g Bramley apples, peeled, cored & sliced
- 160g caster sugar
- 2 tbsp water
- 300g self raising flour, sifted
- 85g unsalted butter, cubed
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp milk
- 150g Rachel’s Low Fat Natural Bio Live Yogurt
Method:
- In a saucepan take the plums, apple slices, 100g of the caster sugar and add the water, cook until the plums and apples soften. Tip: leave the fruit to cool before adding the cobbler pieces this will stop some of the fruit bubbling out over the dish.
- To make the cobbler, add the sifted flour, butter, baking powder and the remainder of the sugar (60g) and using a food processor or mixer whiz together for a few seconds on pulse speed until fine crumbs form.
- Add the milk and yogurt and whiz again until a soft dough forms . You can either spoon the mixture in scattered clumps over the fruit or add a little more flour and roll out the dough using a cutter. Leave some gaps for the cobble effect.
- Bake the cobbler for 30-35 minutes until the topping is golden and the fruit is visibly bubbling beneath.
It was seriously gorgeous. As discussed with @Jessies_online, I am not a fan of fruit crumble but this was gorgeous! The pear made the fruit much more mild, and the yoghurt in the dough topping made it rise beautifully which meant it was light and fluffy. I thoroughly recommend trying some of the gorgeous Rachel's Organics yoghurts, but in a cake or dough mixture.
I was supplied with some samples of Rachel's Organics products to try this recipe.
I love winter too! and your cobbler looks amazing. I'm not sure I have ever had one xx
I've always avoided a cobbler because I dislike crumbles and thought it would be the same. This was nothing like it! Yummy!
Oh, looks lovely. The park, and the Cobbler. I love Winter when it is like it has been the last few days, hate the miserable, wet days where it is too grim to do anything though.
It was great fun, although The Boy got croup from being out in the raw wind for only ten minutes!
I love the pictures.
Winter here is normally jut rain rain and more rain!
Yes, it does tend to be that here in south Wales too.
ooh lovely…..I'm wondering if the cobbler mix could be used to make scone type things? what do you think? were they quite light?
They were light, but the outside was firm like a scone. I'm just about to try and make some scone type things with that mixture so will let you know!
Not fair to post such a yummy picture when I'm sitting at my cold desk facing sandwiches for lunch. The dumplings in veggie stew also sound delish.
It was all gorgeous! And I had thick, creamy custard with it too!
It looks like you were all having great fun at the park. Really need to take Logan to our local park to feed the ducks one day. He'd love it 🙂
The Boy freaked out first time we did it!
That looks delicious!!!!
Do you know what? I pleasantly surprised myself because it really was!
Oh yummmm, can I have cobbler with custard? That would be gorgeous wouldn't it?
We did and it was!
great photos of your day out and what a scrummy winter warmer of a dessert! yum! x
Make it, you'll love it!