Chez Panisse’s Blueberry Cobbler

4 1/2 cups = 27 oz = 765 grams fresh blueberries

Delicious and very easy! I added some lemon zest and lemon juice to the berry/sugar/flour mixture to bring out the taste of the blueberries and it was amazing!

About as easy as dessert gets, added a dash of cinnamon and replaced the cream with buttermilk because buttermilk makes everything better. Served it to my foodie pals with local vanilla ice cream, everyone loved it. I have about a dozen cobbler recipes, this one is now number one.

I wanted to do a mix of berries, but prices were ridiculous for fresh. So I tried 2 bags of Trader Joe's premium mixed berries, covered by the shortbread recipe which I had doubled for 8. Put in large oval porcelain au gratin, equivalent 9×13 pyrex. Was hesitant about frozen berries but defrosted them in frig and drained the small amount of residual liquid and it had no effect. This means that if I have frozen berries as a freezer staple, I can always whip up a buckle !

I've made this many times and it's so delicious I could eat the whole thing by myself. For the dough I use 1/2 cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup cream, add 1/4 t baking soda, decrease baking powder to 1 1/4 t. Comes out fluffy and flavorful. For the berries, I add about 6 large strawberries cut into pieces that are just slightly larger than the blueberries. I prepare the berries first and add juice from half a lemon then let them sit while I make the dough. Lemon makes all the difference!

I made this with unthawed frozen blueberries and it was delicious.

I made the dough with buttermilk instead of cream, 1/2 t. baking soda and 1 1/2 t. baking powder. I formed the dough into six biscuits and then froze them. I made the blueberry mixture and froze that too. This morning I put about 2/3 c. Of the blueberry mixture into an individual serving Pyrex cup, topped it with a frozen biscuit and baked it at 375 for about 20-25 minutes. I had freshly baked blueberry cobbler today and look forward to having it five more times. Freezes well. Biscuits great!

If you are fortunate to have access to the wild blueberries of Maine, use them. Every little berry is a blue bead of paradise, bursting with an untamed flavor unlike any you have ever experienced.

If you used buttermilk instead of cream, did you also switch from baking powder to baking soda?

This recipe was so easy to make, and absolutely delicious! I used a mix of fresh organic berries (blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry), added some homemade vanilla sugar to both berries and crust, added a dash of cinnamon to the crust, and sprinkled the crust with turbinado sugar before putting it into the oven. Hands down the best cobbler I ever backed. With the food processor, the crust was made in a minute. Baking time was accurate, my cobbler was done in 35 minutes.

I traded 1/2 cup of cornmeal for flour--I love the cornmeal crunch. This is easy and delicious.

Deborah Madison has a similar recipe in her Greens cookbook that uses both blueberries and peaches. Here in the Bay Area early peaches (although not the freestones, sigh) are in season as the same time as the blueberries. They are lovely together. I am inspired to try this with some yellow nectarines and blueberries.

I The best blueberry cobbler recipe ever! I made it exactly as written today for the family brunch (toyed with the idea of some lemon, which I'm sure would be good but didn't change anything in the end because I wanted to see how Alice's recipe comes out!). Everyone sat stunned after the first bite and we were almost speechless for a moment. It was so good I'll have to make it this way every time.

I've done this multiple times using frozen cherries from Costco with a splash of almond extract. So easy and always gets raves.

This is da bomb! I’ve made tons of cobbler and always searching for that perfect recipe and this.is.it. I made very few changes (quite uncharacteristic for me) just adding lemon zest and fresh ginger to both the biscuits and the cobbler. I’m saving this for every fruit cobbler from now on! My quest is over!