Easy Blackberry Cobbler Recipe
Nothing says “summer” more than a blackberry cobbler. This simple Southern blackberry cobbler recipe is so easy you can make this delicious dessert from scratch with just a few basic ingredients like flour, sugar, and milk! You’ll be surprised at how quickly this classic dessert with juicy blackberries comes together.
The best thing about this cobbler? It’s made either fresh blackberries 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-inch square baking dish or cast iron skillet 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, sprinkle blackberries over the top of the cobbler batter. It might seem a little backward, but they will sink 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.
Serve the cobbler by placing a spoonful into a serving bowl and topping it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or 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.
If you like fruit cobblers, be sure to check out our peach cobbler recipe, too. We like to think that it’s the best cobbler recipe.
Blackberry Cobbler
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- 6-cup baking dish
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
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Place butter in 9-in square baking dish and place in oven to melt.
- Combine (frozen) blackberries, ¼ cup sugar, cornstarch and set aside.
- Whisk together flour, 1 cup sugar, milk, and vanilla. Set aside.
- Remove melted butter from oven and spoon flour mixture into pan. Spoon blackberries and syrup on top of flour mixture.
- Bake for 45 minutes – 1 hour or until golden brown on top.
- Allow the cobbler to cool for approximately 10 minutes before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Be sure to come back and tell us how your cobbler turned out!
Best cobbler ever!
Thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed it.
This looks delicious berries cobbler . I had peach cobbler I really like but seeing this berries cobbler I may need to cook this light tasty dessert . So easy to make a simple ingredients lemmon zest should pick up flavors of berries. Thank you for sharing recipe
I like my cobbler with more batter and the blackberry taste