Mixed Berry Cobbler
on Aug 17, 2022, Updated Feb 20, 2024
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Dreamy and delicious mixed berry cobbler recipe: a la mode of course! This fruit cobbler is made with strawberries, raspberries and blackberries all tossed with a lil’ lemon juice and zest. Then baked to perfection with a crumble streusel topping. YUM. This is one of my favorite berry cobbler recipes.
What ingredients do you need for this mixed berry cobbler recipe?
This can not get easier – it is the perfect dessert recipe, looks impressive, but comes together in no time. It is also the perfect dessert to prep for any entertaining, or party! Every year, my aunt Lulu makes some sort of mixed berry cobbler for the holidays with a similar topping, and this recipe is inspired by her!
Mixed berries: We are using strawberries, raspberries and blackberries! Other berries like blueberries can also work here. If you don’t like a berry over the other, feel free to omit, and use whatever berries you love! I think other fruit such as cherries or peaches would also work wonderfully here.
*We are using fresh berries, but frozen berries work just as good.
Flour: We are using all purpose flour here to help create the beautiful creamy and luscious berry cobbler. You can opt to use baking powder/cornstarch, but I personally love the flour here.
Granulated Sugar: Need I say more?
Salt: We are using just a little dash of salt in the crumble, it just helps balance out everything!
We are finishing the cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, but you can also serve with whipped cream.
Lemon juice and lemon zest: for some brightness and freshness!
For the crumble/streusel: cold butter, flour, sugar, brown sugar and salt. SO good, and so easy! We aren’t using oats for this recipe, but feel free to add that in this topping if you want to make this a crisp!
Alternate dough toppings: you can also make a biscuit topping with buttermilk, or a pie crust to go on top!
Instructions to make this fruit cobbler recipe
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and make your berry mixture
In a medium bowl, add your berries. Mix in sugar and flour, lemon juice and zest. Whisk until combined. Set aside.
While set aside, make your streusel crumble topping
In another bowl, add in flour, sugar, brown sugar, a pinch of salt and cold cubed butter. Gently massage all these dry ingredients together, until a crumbly mixture is formed. All of the flour, sugar, brown sugar and salt should be mixed into the cold butter into one cohesive topping.
Assemble to bake your dessert
In a baking dish that is oven safe (we are using a medium sized cast-iron), you can use a baking dish, little cocotte’s or anything you have on hand, even 2 separate oven safe dishes would work well, if you want to serve them per serving!
Add your berry mixture in the pan. (You can opt to also rub some butter, or add cooking spray on the sides of the pan prior to adding in the berries, but that’s optional). Depending on your vessel, this may help with sticking.
Once the berry cobbler mixture is in the pan or dish, sprinkle with your crumbled topping. Bake until the berries are juicy, they are bubbling, and the top crumble topping is golden brown. About 50 minutes to 1 hour depending on your oven. Towards the end of the cooking time (10-15 minutes), you can opt to either raise the temperature to 400 or use the broiler, if you want a more golden brown crust.
Top with ice cream and serve!
Remove from the oven, let cool for 5-10 minutes, top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Or serve in individual bowls, and then top with a scoop of ice cream. Serve!
Tips, Tricks and Substitutions for This Fruit Cobbler
Yes, absolutely. Feel free to use fresh, or frozen berries for this cobbler. It’s nice to use frozen sometimes when you don’t have fresh berries on hand, and can almost always make this cobbler if you have frozen berries!
You can thicken a berry cobbler by adding in cornstarch, flour or baking powder. I personally like to use flour for this thickener!
Yes feel free to opt to use any of your favorite berries or fruit that is in season. You can swap with peaches, apples, persimmons, really anything you have on hand, in the fridge or freezer will do here!
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- Grilled Peaches with Ice Cream
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Mixed Berry Cobbler
Ingredients
For your berry mixture
- 3 cups assorted berries, we are using blackberries, raspberries and strawberries
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 lemon, fully juiced, lemon zest of half
For your streusel crumble topping
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 stick of cold unsalted butter, cubed (4-5 tablespoons)
- pinch of kosher salt
- top with vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and make your berry mixture. In a bowl, add your berries. Mix in sugar and flour, lemon juice and zest. Mix until combined. Set aside.
- While set aside, make your streusel crumble topping. In another bowl, add in flour, sugar, brown sugar, a pinch of salt and cold cubed butter. Gently massage all these dry ingredients together, until a crumbly mixture is formed. All of the flour, sugar, brown sugar and salt should be mixed into the cold butter into one cohesive topping.
- Assemble to bake your dessert. In a baking dish that is oven safe (we are using a medium sized cast-iron), you can use a baking dish, little cocotte's or anything you have on hand, even 2 separate oven safe dishes would work well, if you want to serve them per serving!
- Add your berry mixture in the pan. (You can opt to also rub some butter, or add cooking spray on the sides of the pan prior to adding in the berries, but that’s optional). Depending on your vessel, this may help with sticking.
- Once the berry cobbler mixture is in the pan or dish, sprinkle with your crumbled topping. Bake until the berries are juicy, they are bubbling, and the top crumble topping is golden brown. About 50 minutes to 1 hour depending on your oven. Towards the end of the cooking time (10-15 minutes), you can opt to either raise the temperature to 400 or use the broiler, if you want a more golden brown crust.
- Top with ice cream and serve! Remove from the oven, let cool for 5-10 minutes, top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Or serve in individual bowls, and then top with a scoop of ice cream. Serve!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I tried the recipe as written. A ½ stick of butter isn’t enough. The resulting topping mixture was more like sand. I thought maybe the fruit mixture would bubble up through to wet it, but it didn’t. I ended up placing pats of butter on the mixture during baking and then had to place the dessert under the broiler for a couple of minutes at the end. Fortunately, I was able to salvage the cobbler.