Easy Blackberry Cobbler Recipe

When it’s summertime, nothing says “summer” more than a blackberry cobbler. This easy blackberry cobbler recipe is so easy you can make this delicious dessert from scratch with just a few simple ingredients like flour, sugar, and milk! You’ll be surprised at how quickly this dessert comes together, too.

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• 📝 Ingredients
• 👩🏻‍🍳 How To Make Blackberry Cobbler
• 🍽 How To Serve Cobbler
• Storage
• Recipe Notes
• 📖 Recipe

The best thing about this cobbler? It’s made either fresh berries or frozen – whichever your heart desires because they both taste great! That’s also great news because that means that you can enjoy a taste of summer even in the middle of winter thanks to frozen fruit.

If you have a blackberry vine in your yard like I do, the blackberries like to ripen on their own timeline. I can go out one day and pick a handful of juicy berries – not enough to make a cobbler. If I put them in the refrigerator and go out daily to gather ripe berries to make a cobbler, there’s the possibility that the older berries will start to rot.

To preserve my blackberries, I wash them off and allow them to completely dry. Then I place them on a baking sheet and freeze them. Freezing them on a baking sheet is a good way of separating the blackberries so they don’t get stuck together, and I can easily transfer them into a zippered freezer bag once they’re frozen solid.

Now that you know how to preserve blackberries, let’s take a look at how to make this simple recipe.

📝 Ingredients

For this sweet, southern dessert, you need the following ingredients:

• 3 cups blackberries
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 ¼ cups sugar divided
• 1 cup self rising flour
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup butter (1 stick of butter)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

👩🏻‍🍳 How To Make Blackberry Cobbler

Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Place butter in a 9-in square baking dish and place in the oven to melt. Keep an eye on the butter. You don’t want it to start browning or to burn.

You can use any baking dish that you would like – just make sure that it holds 6 cups.

Measure out 3 cups of blackberries.

Combine blackberries, ¼ cup sugar, cornstarch and set aside.

Next, get out a large bowl and whisk together flour, 1 cup sugar, milk, and vanilla. Set it aside.

You didn’t forget about the butter in the oven, did you? Remove it from the oven once it has all melted. Spoon or pour the batter over the melted butter.

Next, spoon the blackberries over the top of the batter. It might seem a little backward, but they will sink down and the batter will cover most of them creating a cake-like topping. Go ahead and spoon any sugar/cornstarch left in the bowl over the cobbler.

Place the cobbler in the oven and bake for 45 minutes – 1 hour or until golden brown on top. The baking time may vary depending on your oven as well as the size of the baking dish that you use. I recommend that you take a peek at the cobbler at the 40-minute mark.

If the batter seems too “jiggly” in the center and the edges are starting to brown, remove the cobbler from the oven and carefully place aluminum foil over the cobbler. Bake in 5-minute increments to check for doneness.

🍽 How To Serve Cobbler

The best way to serve a cobbler is by placing a spoonful into a serving bowl and topping it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or with whipped cream.

Storage

Store leftover cobbler in the refrigerator. I recommend that you wrap the container with plastic wrap or place it in an airtight container.

Recipe Notes

If you don’t have self-rising flour, you can make your own at home.

In a small bowl, place 1 cup of all-purpose flour. Remove 1 ½ teaspoons of flour  – you can put that back in the flour container. Add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking flour and ¼ teaspoon of salt. Whisk the three ingredients together and use in place of self-rising flour.

📖 Recipe

Be sure to come back and tell us how your cobbler turned out!